The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation a $659,247 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "UNDERSTANDING THE ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF PHYSICAL HOLE DEFECTS ON FUNCTIONALIZED B/C 2D MATERIALS FOR THE 2E- REDUCTION OF O2 TO H2O2" from March 1, 2021 to February 28, 2026.
The grant funding will enable CSU Fullerton ASC to conduct research exploring...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $462,824 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program to The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The grant, titled "EVALUATING MOLECULAR HOMOGENEITY IN THREE NANOMETRIC DIMENSIONS USING NANO-PROJECTILE SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY", will support research by Dr. Michael Eller and his students to develop new analytical approaches for performing 3D...
The California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc. was awarded a $475,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funding will support the development of new plasmonic electrochemical microscopy centered techniques to advance single entity analysis. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $528,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California Irvine for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant will support research to unravel the principles of catalytic diversity in the carotenoid oxygenase superfamily. Specifically, funds will be used for supplies to conduct variable temperature, variable field magnetic circular dichroism, resonance Raman, and...
Colorado State University was awarded a $490,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance understanding of dynamic speciation and complex reaction pathways to inform the rational synthesis of ternary semiconductor nanoparticles. Funding will allow CSU researchers to gain molecular-level insights that can...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides funding of $151,584 to The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge to support collaborative research on developing new ligands for the synthesis of noble metal nanocrystals with controlled surface structures. The project aims to expand the synthetic toolbox for nanocrystal chemistry by incorporating designed N-heterocyclic carbenes as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $575,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program. The grant supports an investigation by Professor Andrey Vilesov into the structure of carbocations and molecular ionic clusters isolated in helium droplets at ultra-low temperatures. The research aims to provide insights into the structures of important carbocation species and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $263,809 to Professor Jeffrey Gustafson of San Diego State University to study new approaches for the selective modification of aromatic compounds, which are common building blocks in synthetic and pharmaceutical chemistry.
The key products and services to be delivered under this award include:
Developing novel "organocatalysts" to enable...
This $447,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support research at Haverford College from December 2022 through February 2026. The research team, led by Dr. Louise Charkoudian, will investigate type II polyketide biosynthetic enzyme assemblies across bacterial species to leverage their capabilities for sustainable chemical production. Undergraduate students will gain research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a $1,025,730 Project Grant Award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University Enterprises Corporation at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). The grant supports the CAL-BRIDGE program, a statewide partnership to increase the number of underrepresented minority and women students completing STEM PhD degrees and joining the STEM professoriate. Over the 3-year award period from September 2024...