Xavier University of Louisiana was awarded a three-year, $800,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the Xavier-University of Chicago Partnership for Research and Education in Materials for Energy Storage and Sensing. The partnership will advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems in energy storage and sensing through collaborative research and educational activities between the...
Xavier University of Louisiana received a $513,443 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund research from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 to investigate interfacial chemical and ion transport in solid inorganic-polymer electrolytes. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $510,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Chicago. The objective of this 3-year research project, starting on Jul 15, 2025, is to establish fundamental structure/processing/morphology/property relationships in a class of "pluripotent" polymer materials that can be tempered to access a wide range of room-temperature properties, from brittle and glassy to...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research to design and discover new "heteroanionic" materials containing multiple types of negatively charged anion atoms. The goal is to understand how the atomic-scale structure of these complex materials influences their electronic, magnetic, and optical properties, enabling the development of advanced materials for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $314,920 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Tuskegee University. The grant will fund a collaborative research project focused on the computationally driven discovery and synthesis of novel 2D materials through selective etching. Researchers will combine computational, experimental, and machine learning techniques to develop an enabling process for the electrochemical extraction of atomic layers...
This Project Grant award of $340,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research into polymer nanocomposites. The research aims to provide fundamental understanding of the chemistry, physics, and engineering principles that can be leveraged to develop advanced functional materials, such as those with applications in energy storage and water purification. Key objectives include: 1) elucidating how brush charge density affects...
This $464,405 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research conducted by Professor Evgeny Dikarev of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. The project focuses on developing new synthetic methodologies to prepare carbon-coated battery materials using single-source carbonaceous precursors. The goal is to create innovative, cost-effective rechargeable...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at the University of Chicago to explore a method of polymer synthesis mediated by electric fields. The $200,000 award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will focus on understanding the mechanism of how electric fields can be used to control and mediate the vibration of particles that produce chemical reactions, with the goal of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Lehigh University for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research to accelerate data-driven discovery of ion-conducting materials through mentoring of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Louisiana State University was provided a $44,403 subaward over three years to support expertise in sintering and...
The University of Chicago received a $968,428 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on October 1, 2021 to support collaborative research titled "Accelerated Design of Redox-Active Polymers for Metal-Free Batteries." The award is part of 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. Under this award, the University will conduct research with...