This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $328,153 to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) to conduct collaborative research on using two-dimensional metal halide perovskites as a templating tool to control the crystalline properties and optoelectronic behaviors of organic semiconductor thin films. The research aims to precisely manipulate the crystal structure...
This $481,456 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 research to develop a new family of organochalcogenide-halide perovskite semiconductors. The project at Stanford University aims to explore how incorporating chalcogens (S, Se) into lead-halide perovskite frameworks can improve material stability and optoelectronic properties for potential applications in solar...
This $990,450 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research effort between Carnegie Mellon University and partner institutions to develop computational tools and experimental methods for designing high-performance organic electronic and photonic devices. The project aims to advance the fundamental understanding of molecular interfaces and enable the epitaxial growth of organic...
This NSF-funded project grant awarded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) focuses on developing new strategies for designing next-generation organic optoelectronic materials. The $330,940 award, with a project period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, supports a collaborative effort between researchers at Tufts University and the University of Connecticut. The project aims to enhance fundamental understanding of how chemical structure influences the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $164,671 Project Grant to Arizona State University to develop and evaluate a new class of lead-free perovskite halide materials for optoelectronic applications under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. This collaborative research between the University of Maine and the University of Alabama aims to computationally design, synthesize, characterize, and assess the stability of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), provides $455,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The grant supports research to develop two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials for potential use in solar cells by enabling long-range electron transport. Specifically, the grant recipients will incorporate...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Clemson University's Division of Research a $377,053 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The funding supports research to investigate transient charge and exciton dynamics in halide perovskite semiconductors, particularly under electrical excitation. The project aims to develop an ultrafast electroluminescence testbed to study free charge carrier recombination, exciton funneling and...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research by Prof. Thomas Kempa and his group at Johns Hopkins University to develop new quantum material platforms based on two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with 2D semiconductor materials. The $307,752 award will fund efforts to chemically design 2D MOF structures and assemble them into van der Waals heterostructures with...
This $3,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a novel lamination approach for halide perovskite semiconductors that enables new device architectures and material combinations for applications like solar cells, LEDs, and other optoelectronic devices. The research aims to understand, model, and control the process-structure-property relationships during halide perovskite semiconductor manufacturing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research grant, titled "Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition for Chemically Precise Hybrid Perovskite Materials," will develop a new method for growing hybrid perovskite semiconductor materials using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The $375,558 project, which began on September 15, 2024 and runs through August 31, 2027, will establish a custom-built MOCVD system that allows precise control over the...