The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $440,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration. The award, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: ACCELERATING THE COMMERCIAL READINESS OF ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS (ACROSS)", aims to advance the commercial readiness of organic semiconductor materials and devices. Key objectives include expanding data...
This $391,972 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to mitigate dynamic disorder in crystalline organic semiconductors. The University of Kentucky Research Foundation, the awardee, will synthesize and study three new classes of organic semiconductors to elucidate the relationships between phonon modes (molecular vibrations) and charge transport. This research aims to develop design rules...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $440,001 to Wake Forest University - Babcock School of Business to accelerate the commercial readiness of organic semiconductor systems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Expanded data infrastructure and tools for materials discovery focused on democratizing global data and tool access. Software to capture organic semiconductor characterization...
The University of Kentucky Research Foundation was awarded a $365,077 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 to study using spacer molecular structure to control energetics, stability, charge-carrier transport, and photovoltaic performance in 2D organic metal halide perovskites. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in materials...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) provides $286,982 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to advance the development of organic solar cells (OSCs) using greener manufacturing processes. The key objectives are to: Design and synthesize new zwitterionic conjugated polymers and organic molecules that can be solution-processed using biomass-derived solvents like Cyrene and gamma-valerolactone (GVL), which are more...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) in the amount of $499,892 awarded to the Regents of the University of Michigan aims to develop computational tools to predict the structure and properties of molecular interfaces in organic electronic and photonic devices. The research will integrate first principles quantum mechanical simulations, predictive machine learning algorithms, and experiments to enable a new paradigm...
This NSF-funded project grant awarded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) focuses on developing new strategies for designing next-generation organic optoelectronic materials. The $330,940 award, with a project period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, supports a collaborative effort between researchers at Tufts University and the University of Connecticut. The project aims to enhance fundamental understanding of how chemical structure influences the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $450,313 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to conduct research on organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). The overarching goal is to elucidate the role of the contact/organic interface in OECTs, which are amplifiers that can translate biological signals into electronic signals for applications in biosensors, medical devices, and computing. The research aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will establish a framework to advance the predictable and controlled self-assembly of multicomponent plastic semiconducting materials. The $1,000,000 award to North Carolina State University aims to expand polymer physics concepts and develop new descriptors to better understand and categorize the complex molecular structures and assembly processes of these advanced...
This $990,450 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research effort between Carnegie Mellon University and partner institutions to develop computational tools and experimental methods for designing high-performance organic electronic and photonic devices. The project aims to advance the fundamental understanding of molecular interfaces and enable the epitaxial growth of organic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $952,291 Project Grant on October 1, 2023 to The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: ACCELERATING THE COMMERCIAL READINESS OF ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS (ACROSS)", aims to accelerate the commercial readiness of organic semiconductor materials for applications in electronics, displays, lighting, power generation, storage, and sensors. Key objectives include expanding machine-informed organic semiconductor design tools and data infrastructure, co-designing molecular and material structures to enable large-area uniform and stable organic semiconductor devices, and creating prototype organic semiconductor-based X-ray detectors and thin-film transistor arrays. The grant will also support training and mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students underrepresented in STEM fields. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.