This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports a collaborative research project to develop scalable nanomanufacturing processes for lead-free perovskite-analogue nanocrystals. The $360,000 award to Brown University aims to leverage reconfigurable continuous flow reactors and data science techniques to rapidly explore the manufacturing space and optimize the production of high-performance copper-based perovskite-analogue...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $397,209 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a mechanistic understanding of oriented attachment crystallization processes for lead-halide perovskite nanocrystals. Over a three-year period from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025, the University of Missouri will conduct research to control defects, morphology, and dimensionality during the oriented attachment of lead-halide...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $497,140 to Brown University to conduct research on the growth and synthesis of ultrathin lead halide perovskite nanowires. The project, led by Professor Ou Chen, aims to achieve atomic unit-cell-level control over the fabrication of these 1D perovskite nanostructures in order to uncover the fundamental mechanisms underlying their growth. By systematically...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $280,405 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on combining probabilistic data science methods with in-situ environmental transmission electron microscopy to better understand the collective behavior and interactions of nanoparticles during key physicochemical processes like oxidation/reduction, dewetting, coarsening, and catalysis. The goal is to develop a data...
This $3,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a novel lamination approach for halide perovskite semiconductors that enables new device architectures and material combinations for applications like solar cells, LEDs, and other optoelectronic devices. The research aims to understand, model, and control the process-structure-property relationships during halide perovskite semiconductor manufacturing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $124,802 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma (OU) to study the growth of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals at the single-particle level. This research aims to advance the development of low-cost single photon emitters (SPEs) necessary for building future quantum photonic networks that enable secure quantum communications. Under this 2-year grant, starting September 1, 2023, Professor Yitong Dong and his...
The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina State University a $162,000 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research to elucidate the structure and dynamics of hybrid perovskite systems through a nanoscale detection approach. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the Engineering program supports basic research to advance...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $530,132 to New York University (NYU) aims to improve the sustainability of industrial crystallization processes through an investigation of laser-induced nucleation mechanisms. The project will utilize continuous-flow, high-pressure microfluidic devices and supervised machine learning to quantify the dielectric polarization and colloidal impurity mechanisms that govern light-induced nucleation. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $486,160 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to develop fundamental principles for designing electrochemical photoreactors using single and ensemble multijunction silicon (Si) particles. The project aims to understand the chemical effects of liquid solutions on individual nanowire photovoltaic and photocatalyst properties, the electrochemical and photonic...
North Carolina State University was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research on organized nanochannel materials from biomolecular magnetic organic frameworks. Over a three-year period from September 2023 through August 2026, NC State will leverage multi-scale modeling, machine learning, and experimental verification to develop technology-specific rules for designing and...