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...
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...
This $250,000 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical research and educational activities at Wake Forest University focused on developing innovative numerical methods for studying the quantum mechanical properties and nonlinear responses of complex materials. The research team will leverage advanced matrix product state approaches to construct accurate low-energy effective Hamiltonians capable of capturing...
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 $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 $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...
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) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with CFDA number 47.049, is providing $468,983 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to advance the field of n-doping of organic semiconductor materials. The goal is to enhance the efficiency of n-type doping using a catalyst, which will result in a new class of high-performance and stable n-type organic semiconductors. The research will elucidate the doping mechanism, explore new...
This Project Grant award of $398,065.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems supports research at New York University (NYU) to develop a novel doping process for organic semiconductor materials used in devices like perovskite solar cells. The project aims to enhance the conductivity, uniformity, and stability of these materials by investigating the mechanisms of molecular and photo-assisted doping, including the effects of cationic...
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 and device data into structured formats to enable machine learning models for property prediction.
Optimized organic semiconductors for high charge-carrier mobility, radiation sensitivity, and environmental/operational stability.
Co-designed molecular and processing parameters to produce organic semiconductors for large-area applications spanning prototype thin-film transistors and radiation dosimeters to high-resolution radiation imagers.
The award also aims to recruit and mentor underrepresented STEM researchers from the local community to build a diverse technical and data-driven workforce. This 4-year project began on October 1, 2023.