The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $400,002 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on October 1, 2021 to support research activities under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Specifically, MIT will conduct collaborative research to develop damage resistant materials for hydrogen storage and large-scale transport through September 30, 2025. The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $1.2 million Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct collaborative research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The four-year award, made on October 1, 2021 and running through September 30, 2025, will support MIT's "Designer 3D Mesoscale Materials Synthesized in the Self-Assembly Foundry" project. This project aims to advance the design and synthesis of...
This $640,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support Professor Robert J. Gilliard of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in developing novel synthetic protocols for boron-doped nanographenes. The research aims to design and synthesize smaller aromatic compounds containing boron as templates for preparing boron-doped nanographenes. A strong emphasis will be placed on...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research efforts titled "Designing Bright and Fast Fluorophores with Large Stokes' Shifts Based on Superrradiant Molecular J-Aggregates" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant funding will support MIT's work to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences through increasing the store of scientific knowledge...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $475,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on July 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAS: ELECTROSYNTHESIS VIA ELECTROCHEMICAL HYDROGEN PERMEATION." The award will fund MIT's work through June 30, 2024 under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049). The grant aims to advance MIT's research into electrosynthesis via electrochemical hydrogen permeation. Specifically, the...
This Project Grant award, valued at $416,387, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award will fund research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate emergent phenomena, phases, properties, and principles in a unique platform of crystalline two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Key objectives include establishing this family of 2D materials as an exceptional platform...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $546,312 supports research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from July 2022 to June 2026 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The research aims to develop new carbon-based nanocomposite materials with applications in chemical sensing and catalysis. Specifically, the grant recipients will work to create multi-component systems combining graphene, carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles and porous polymers....
This Project Grant award, valued at $555,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on developing advanced hybrid J-aggregate nanostructures. The primary objectives are to: Investigate how silica matrices influence the brightness, stability, and excitonic behavior of J-aggregate fluorophores, and explore solvent tunability through surface...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $480,014 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The funding supports research to engineer novel magnetic garnet thin film materials through interface and site occupancy control. Key objectives include developing magnetic garnet superlattices, films with ordered rare...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a research project titled "Directing Hydrogen Transfer via Pd Electrochemical Double Cell Polarization." The project, led by Professor Yogesh Surendranath, aims to develop a new approach for controlling the use of hydrogen in chemical reactions by combining electrical and thermal energy inputs....