The University of Utah will use a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to examine thermochemistry of metal-ligand bonds and protonated peptides from June 15, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The work falls under the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Professor Peter B. Armentrout and his research group will utilize guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometry...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $432,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Utah. The funding supports a research project led by Professor Jon Rainier that aims to utilize light-driven photoelectrocyclization reactions to synthesize complex, optically active molecules with potential pharmaceutical, agricultural, and materials applications. The project seeks to uncover fundamental photochemical phenomena and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $420,000 Project Grant to the University of Utah from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The funding supports the development of a novel optical biosensor capable of detecting and quantifying a wide range of biological molecules, including biomarkers found in bodily fluids. The project leverages second harmonic generation (SHG) and optical heterodyning techniques...
The University of Utah received a two-year, $449,988 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support experimental characterization of microscopic properties of superconducting polyhydrides to develop a more realistic theoretical framework for warm superconductivity. Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, Utah from August 2021 through July 2023. The...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded $550,000 to the University of Utah under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research transforming amines into complex polycyclic molecules and natural products from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. Professor Andrew G. Roberts and his research team will develop new synthetic methodology using tertiary amines as templates to iteratively form carbon-nitrogen and carbon-carbon bonds,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $230,111 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. This 3-year grant, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, supports two scientific research threads: (1) fundamental research on liquid crystals, their suspensions, and related applications; and (2) investigations of extreme wave phenomena in photonic devices, with a focus on epsilon near...
This $520,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research into advancing the understanding of transition metal-carbon bonding through integrated spectroscopy and theory methods. Principal investigators Lucy Ziurys of the University of Arizona and Nathan Deyonker of the University of Memphis will combine experimental and computational approaches to explore the ground electronic states of small...
This $575,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to synthesize and study the reactivity of unusual main group elements stabilized by transition metal isocyanide complexes, from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. Specifically, Professor Joshua S. Figueroa will manipulate boron monofluoride and diphosphorus molecules, which are...
The University of Utah was awarded a $409,494 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research titled "MICROSTRUCTURE BY DESIGN: INTEGRATING GRAIN GROWTH EXPERIMENTS, DATA ANALYTICS, SIMULATION, AND THEORY" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in materials science through...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $375,801 Project Grant to the University of Utah to develop new synthetic routes and self-assembly strategies for fabricating large-area, defect-free 2D coordination polymers (2DCPs). This research, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to identify the kinetic bottlenecks leading to defect formation in 2DCPs and unlock their potential as topological materials for quantum...