The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded a $399,662 Project Grant to the University of New Hampshire to study new photocatalysts based on earth-abundant metals like copper and nickel. The goal is to design and synthesize supramolecular photocatalysts that can transform carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels using visible light. This 4-year project involves an international collaboration with researchers at...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $424,350 to Duquesne University from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project aims to design and discover energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective metal-free catalysts for the activation and conversion of small molecules, such as converting carbon dioxide to useful chemicals and fuels. The research approach combines...
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort between Johns Hopkins University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The goal is to design and develop novel metal-organic framework (MOF) catalysts for electrochemical synthesis of commercially valuable organonitrogen compounds like urea, acetamide, and N-methylamines. The project has three key objectives: (1)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $528,664 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct fundamental research on the thermodynamics and reaction-transport kinetics of copper-based catalysts for electrochemical transformation of carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels and chemicals. The 5-year research project aims to develop a novel reaction-transport model for CO2 electrocatalysis that can enable the rational...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), provides $182,589 to support collaborative research between Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Florida, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The researchers will examine the connections between the structure, dynamics, and catalysis of reactions with...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research led by Professor Elizabeth Papish of the University of Alabama to develop new nickel catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into fuel precursors and pharmaceutical building blocks. The $600,000 award, granted on July 1, 2025 with an end date of June 30, 2028, will be used to: 1) systematically modify nickel and cobalt catalysts to improve...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports computational research on molecular catalysts that can use renewable electricity to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) to higher energy-reduced carbon compounds. The $390,124 award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will enable Professor Julien Panetier and his research team at Binghamton University to computationally study earth-abundant...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry has awarded a 3-year, $316,588 Project Grant to Long Island University (LIU) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The purpose of this grant is to support the development of novel carbon nanosphere-encapsulated bimetallic catalysts and metal-CeO2 interfaces for the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) to value-added chemicals. The key objectives of this research project are to: (I) leverage the confinement of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry provides $138,894 to Drs. Eranda Nikolla of Wayne State University and Will Medlin of the University of Colorado from January 2023 through December 2023. The funding supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop an understanding of solid metal/metal oxide interfaces in inverted catalytic systems. Specifically, the researchers are synthesizing controlled metal...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $560,068 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Professor Jonathan Rochford of the University of Massachusetts Boston. The grant is funding the development of new strategies for the selective conversion of carbon dioxide to formic acid, which has global demand and production methods that contribute to carbon dioxide emissions. The project is focused on engineering catalyst structure and electrolyte...