This $650,000 National Science Foundation project grant, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research into lanthanide complexes displaying upconversion emission. Principal Investigator Anne E.V. Gordon of Texas Tech University will collaborate with Ana De Bettencourt-Dias of the University of Nevada, Reno and Jorge Monteiro of California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt to develop new lanthanide complexes with the potential for efficient...
This $375,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research between the University of Delaware and other partners to investigate room-temperature superfluorescence in multi-fluorophore protein cages. The researchers will chemically bind hundreds of molecular dyes to the protein shell of a small plant virus to induce synchronized...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $399,000 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) to develop a new generation of cost-effective, scalable, and stable radiation detectors with ultra-high detectivity. This is a joint effort between the University at Buffalo, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford to address the challenge of engineering materials and manufacturing...
This $420,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the development of a cutting-edge materials system consisting of rare-earth doped functional transition metal oxides for advanced optical and electro-optical applications. The key objectives are to unlock the full potential of optical transitions of rare-earth erbium ions in the perovskite oxide barium titanate...
This $126,656 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research effort led by Professors Julie Biteen of the University of Michigan and David Masiello of the University of Washington. The goal is to develop a multifunctional, high-sensitivity instrument to measure plasmon-enhanced chirality and enable sensing of subtle, heterogeneous changes in chirality at the single-molecule...
This $375,699 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at Bard College to synthesize and characterize cyclometalated platinum(IV) compounds. The research team, led by Professor Craig M. Anderson, will investigate the photophysical properties of these compounds and explore molecular design strategies to improve their performance for potential applications as sensors or devices. A key component of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to M3D, Inc. will develop a novel gamma-ray radiation imager for image-guided tumor diagnostics. The goal is to create a system capable of rapidly and accurately detecting gamma-ray emitting radiotracers used to identify the location of lymph nodes and tumor drainage during cancer surgical procedures. The project will characterize the design parameters of the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $124,564 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of South Dakota (USD) to develop water-soluble afterglow luminescent nanocomposites for bioimaging and bioanalysis. This 2-year project, co-funded by the NSF Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), aims to synthesize and characterize novel carbon dot-doped...
This $385,588 National Science Foundation Integrative Activities Project Grant supports the development of lanthanide-doped metal halide perovskite nanocrystals for sensitive detection of short wavelength radiation by Oakwood University, Inc. from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The award aims to investigate the feasibility of integrating lanthanide-doped perovskite nanoparticles that efficiently down-convert ultraviolet and x-ray photons to visible and near-infrared radiation with silicon...
This $297,402 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research project between professors at Boston University and Northeastern University. The research aims to investigate charge and energy transfer between metal nanostructures and semiconductor nanocrystals through single particle spectroscopy. Specifically, the project will analyze the scattering spectra of individual hybrid...