Project Grant 2305402
Award Date
8/1/23
Completion Date
7/31/26
Dollars Obligated
$185K
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Kingston, RI 02881, USA
Similar Awards
This $128,740 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to Brown University, funded through the NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering), is supporting collaborative research to develop new magnetic particle imaging (MPI) tracer platforms. The key objectives are to create controlled clustering of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles using specialized polymers derived from natural amino acids, in order to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to support the development of new magnetic particle imaging tracers. The goal is to create superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle clusters with controlled properties that can be used to improve magnetic particle imaging, a non-invasive medical imaging technique similar to MRI. Key objectives include designing and synthesizing poly(amino acid)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $199,999 Project Grant to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division, doing business as URI - Research. The award titled "ERI: A MICROFLUIDIC APPROACH FOR MONITORING MICROPLASTICS IN SEAWATER" aims to develop effective methods for sampling and identifying microplastics in seawater as global pollution concerns grow. The project will run from Jul 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2026 and leverage URI's...
The University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office, doing business as URI - Research, received a $456,973 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award on February 15, 2024. The award will fund research to design a novel class of "telechelic triblock copolymers" that can create colloidal gels with independent elasticity and viscosity properties. This flexibility will enable more efficient and cost-effective materials for battery technology,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $499,944 to develop a new type of magnetic field microscope that combines high sensitivity and high resolution. The research team at the University of Colorado aims to advance the synthesis of rare-earth-doped magnetic nanoparticles and utilize dual-comb microscopy techniques to create the first-of-its-kind nanoparticle-based dual-comb magnetic field microscope. This...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $607,500 Project Grant to the University of Rhode Island under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on May 1, 2021 for the project "CAREER: MULTIMODAL SINGLE ENTITY ELECTROCHEMISTRY AT NANOSCALE LIQUID/LIQUID INTERFACES." This five-year grant will support research into multimodal single entity electrochemistry at nanoscale liquid/liquid interfaces, with the goal of increasing scientific understanding of major problems in...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $249,990 will support research into innovative structural characterization of biomolecular ions through mass spectrometry and infrared action spectroscopy. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor Daniel Thomas and students at the University of Rhode Island will study peptide and RNA chain folding properties by cooling samples in helium nanodroplets and analyzing infrared light absorption. Outreach...
The University of Rhode Island received a three-year, $358,391 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research into thermally functional and reversible thermal conductivity switching in nanoporous molecular frameworks from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The Engineering program aims to improve engineering research and education to foster...
This $311,242 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to elucidate the nanoscale interactions between invertible micellar assemblies and biopolymer cargos under varied environments. The research team from the University of Missouri System will utilize electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy to probe the behavior of labeled biopolymer cargos within the invertible micellar assemblies. This work will provide insights into the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $574,980 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division. The grant will support research to study monomethylmercury (MMHg) in natural phytoplankton assemblages in the western North Atlantic Ocean and its estuaries. The project aims to improve understanding of the fundamental processes governing MMHg uptake and cycling at the base of the marine food web. The researchers will...