This $600,000 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry Project Grant supports research into elucidating exciton transport in hierarchical organic materials through time-resolved electronic and vibrational spectroscopy/microscopy. Led by researchers at Montana State University and the University of Miami, the award will fund investigation of energy transport in light-harvesting superstructures comprised of stacked aromatic dyes covalently bonded together with molecular tethers. By...
This NSF Project Grant award, funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $252,193 to the University of New Mexico Office of Sponsored Projects Division to develop new strategies for manipulating the interactions of organic molecules and polymers in nanoscale architectures. The research group of Dr. Jean-Hubert Olivier at the University of Miami aims to understand how to precisely control assembly pathways to reconfigure the structure of organic...
This $150,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop GPU-accelerated first-principles simulation techniques for modeling exciton dynamics in complex materials systems. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the three-year award running from August 2022 to July 2025 will advance the scientific understanding needed to design novel photovoltaic and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $750,687 to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin to study how mechanical strain affects singlet fission and exciton transport in molecular crystals. The research team, led by Professors Sean Roberts, Narayana Aluru, and Michael Cullinan, will develop micro-electromechanical (MEMS) devices to strain molecular crystals and use computational modeling and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $602,701 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of South Carolina. The grant, led by Principal Investigator Prof. Natalia Shustova, focuses on developing stimuli-responsive materials with directed photophysical behavior. The research aims to establish fundamental synthetic principles that enable precise control over the rate of photophysical material response, including through the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $629,867 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Austin. The funding supports research by Dr. Doran Bennett to develop new computational methods for simulating excited-state dynamics and nonlinear spectroscopy of molecular materials at the mesoscale (10nm - 1μm). The project aims to establish how specific materials absorb and deploy energy from light, providing essential...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $542,867 to the University of Houston to study excited state dynamical processes in low-dimensional electronic materials. The research team, led by Dr. Eric Bittner, aims to develop quantum physics theories and methods to predict the behaviors of these materials, which have potential applications in optical electronics, quantum information science, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) in the amount of $499,892 awarded to the Regents of the University of Michigan aims to develop computational tools to predict the structure and properties of molecular interfaces in organic electronic and photonic devices. The research will integrate first principles quantum mechanical simulations, predictive machine learning algorithms, and experiments to enable a new paradigm...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $164,120 Project Grant to the University of Rochester under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds a collaborative research project between Professor Daniel Mittleman of Brown University and Professor Michael Ruggiero of the University of Vermont to study the vibrational motions of clathrate materials using terahertz spectroscopy. The goal is to investigate the fundamental kinetics and dynamics driving the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $111,099 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Montana to conduct a comparative study of the high harmonic generation (HHG) spectra of transition metal compounds. The 3-year project aims to leverage advancements in laser technology to better understand the complex electronic structures and chemical properties of transition metal compounds, which have wide-ranging applications in...