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 $666,555 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Michigan to improve organic photovoltaic devices and increase solar energy efficiency. The three-year award beginning July 1, 2022 will fund investigations into the mechanisms governing charge generation and energy loss in organic solar cells using multidimensional spectroscopy. Researchers aim to understand energy loss processes...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $267,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports computational research and education focused on understanding the interaction of light with ordered assemblies of carbon-based organic molecules. The goal is to develop new design principles for efficient solar energy conversion materials. The research team at Trustees of Boston University will employ first-principles electronic structure theory to...
The Trustees of Princeton University, through its Office of Research and Project Administration, has been awarded a $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The goal of this 4-year award, which commenced on October 1, 2023, is to develop computational tools and predictive modeling capabilities to enable the informed design of epitaxial organic electronics and photonics. This research aims to advance the fundamental...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports theoretical and computational research to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of first-principles quantum mechanical simulations for understanding the electronic structure of materials. The $220,991 award will fund the development of innovative machine learning-based approximations to improve the Density Functional Theory (DFT) methodology, which is widely used...
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 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...
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 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop advanced computational techniques for studying quantum impurity models. This $236,630 award, spanning from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, will support research aimed at creating novel tensor contraction and compression algorithms to enable more accurate simulation of quantum many-body systems. The...
This is a 5-year, $235,316 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports research by the University of Michigan to better understand how colloidal quantum dot solids respond to mechanical strain and deformation. The project aims to reveal the underlying chemical, structural, and optoelectronic mechanisms by which the interaction between quantum dots and conjugated polymers impacts the...