The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) was awarded a three-year, $655k Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program. The grant funds the development of new tools for the chemical analysis of internal surfaces of porous materials using positron annihilation gamma spectroscopy. Specifically, Professor Alexander Weiss and colleagues at UTA are working to demonstrate that positron annihilation gamma...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $813,612 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop fundamental understanding of multiphase reactive transport phenomena that control rare earth element recovery from unsaturated, unconsolidated nanoporous clays using seawater. The research aims to explore micro- and nano-scale mechanisms of multiphase transport and sorption at water-air-clay interfaces to inform upscaled,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Trustees of Tufts College, doing business as Tufts University, for a project titled "RAISE: CET: ZWITTERIONIC MEMBRANES FOR RARE EARTH ELEMENT (REE) SEPARATIONS." The project aims to design novel membrane materials featuring nanoscale structures, inspired by biological pores, that can selectively enrich and separate rare earth elements (REEs). Researchers will use...
The University of Tampa Inc. received a $177,980 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant funds the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH RUI: CAS: DEVELOPMENT OF TRIPODAL LIGANDS FOR NEXT-GENERATION RARE EARTH ELEMENT SEPARATIONS project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to develop new tripodal ligands for separating rare earth elements, supporting...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $200,000 Planning Grant to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) under the Partnerships for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC) program. This grant will support a collaborative effort between UTEP and the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry (CSOE) to develop innovative electrochemical methods for the detection and separation of rare earth elements. Key activities include joint educational workshops...
This Project Grant award, valued at $700,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to establish an interdisciplinary research and education partnership between the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and Northwestern University (NU). Key products and services to be delivered under this PREM (Partnership for Research and Education in Materials) grant include: Conducting cutting-edge materials research in...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $561,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on November 15, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the university will conduct research to modulate metalloprotein activities through fine-tuning reduction...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year, $550,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Under this grant, Professor Sherri McFarland and her team will examine the redox and excited state properties of oligothiophene-containing ruthenium(II) complexes, which have important applications as photosensitizers in fields ranging from solar energy conversion to photomedicine. The primary...
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $316,336 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on "NEW OXYSULFIDE PEROVSKITES FOR PHOTOCATALYTIC AND PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant aims to advance the University's work developing new oxy sulfide perovskite materials with applications in photocatalysis and photovoltaics. The funding will support the...
The University of Texas at Arlington will use a $440,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to study the excited state behavior of ruthenium (II) photodrugs. The grant was awarded on August 1, 2021 for a three-year period concluding on July 31, 2024. The grant is being funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. As the place...
The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research, Solid State and Materials Chemistry Program, under the CFDA program "Mathematical and Physical Sciences." The award, titled "EAGER: CET: Functionalized Graphene for Sustainable Rare Earth Metal Separation," supports fundamental research to develop innovative hybrid nanomaterials that can effectively extract and separate rare earth (RE) metals through environmentally sustainable processes. The multidisciplinary team of chemists and materials scientists at UTA combines theoretical modeling, synthetic chemistry, and analytical characterization techniques to functionalize graphene with organic ligands, aiming to diversify the RE supply chain and meet national and global demands for these critical resources. The project also trains undergraduate and graduate students in STEM fields to contribute to the development of a future scientific workforce. This award reflects NSF's mission to promote the progress of the mathematical and physical sciences and enhance the nation's scientific enterprise.