Project Grant 2431336
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $310,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to support a collaborative research project led by professors from Brown University and the University of Rochester. The goal of this 3-year project is to investigate the atomic-level mechanisms that drive the adsorption of gases in porous materials such as metal-organic frameworks and clathrates using a combination of vibrational spectroscopies,...
- 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 awarded Brown University a $400,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative terahertz spectroscopy of clathrates from June 15, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Brown University will utilize the funding to conduct research on terahertz spectroscopy techniques to analyze gas hydrate clathrates. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
- This $1,128,657.00 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Brown University to study emergent magnetic orders in frustrated magnets across multiple length and energy scales. The research team will utilize synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques at national laboratories to characterize the magnetic configurations and fluctuations in nanoscale frustrated magnets. This work aims to develop critical...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $524,725 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Rutgers, The State University for a research project titled "Probing Redox and Photoredox Activity in Metal-Organic Frameworks." The research aims to gain fundamental insights into the electronic properties and charge transfer processes of metal-organic frameworks, which are a class of porous materials with diverse energy and environmental...
- Brown University was awarded a three-year, $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the federal Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Emergent Opto-Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Coupled Behavior of Halide Perovskites." The funding period is from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Under this award, Brown University researchers will investigate the opto-mechanical and electro-mechanical coupling behavior of...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $157,021.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), focuses on quantitative analysis of high-contrast composite materials. The Principal Investigator will conduct research to develop new mathematical methods to address open problems in modeling and analyzing the behavior of these materials, which have diverse applications in bioengineering, medical imaging, and electronics. Key...
- This $700,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports Professor Carl Brozek at the University of Oregon in using sophisticated vibrational sum-frequency scattering spectroscopy (VSFSS) to study the surface properties of colloidal porous nanoparticles, particularly metal-organic framework (MOF) nanocrystals. The research aims to provide fundamental insights into...
- Brown University was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for work on the project "CAREER: FINITE TEMPERATURE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE METHODS FOR PREDICTING MATERIAL PHASE DIAGRAMS" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2026. Under this award, Brown University will develop and apply finite temperature electronic structure methods to predict material phase diagrams and enhance understanding of major...
- This $300,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program will enable Brown University to conduct research on controlling and visualizing the interactions of electrons in atomically-thin materials with sub-nanometer-to-nanometer accuracy. The project aims to leverage Brown's expertise in molecular design and 2D device fabrication, along with the advanced scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) facility at Brookhaven National...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $502,799 in funding to Brown University from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. Under this award, Professors Daniel Mittleman of Brown University and Michael Ruggiero of the University of Rochester will conduct collaborative research to investigate guest-host molecule interactions in porous materials like metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and clathrates. The research will utilize a combination of advanced vibrational spectroscopies, including terahertz time-domain and Raman measurements, along with computational modeling to uncover the atomic-level mechanisms driving gas adsorption in these materials. The findings will inform the rational design of porous materials optimized for applications such as hydrogen storage and toxic chemical remediation. In addition, the project includes an educational component involving a hands-on summer course for high school students in the researchers' local communities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $502.8k | 8/14/25 |