The $209,101 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds a collaborative research project between North Carolina State University and the University of Miami from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop a new class of synthetic dyes with photoactivatable fluorescence for bioimaging applications through the synthesis, characterization, and single-molecule spectroscopic analysis of four series of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $437,749 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The grant supports a research project to investigate a new class of luminescent protein materials and their potential applications in imaging, sensing, and biological tracking. The project aims to characterize the chemical and physical properties of known luminescent protein-metal compounds, and leverage...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) $1,000,000 project grant award to North Carolina State University aims to advance the understanding of quantum materials and establish a design space for room-temperature superfluorescent quantum emitters. The research program brings together four teams with expertise in material synthesis, quantum property characterization, first principles theory, and computational materials simulations to...
This $602,701 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The primary focus of the award is to develop stimuli-responsive materials with directed photophysical behavior, led by Principal Investigator Prof. Natalia Shustova and her team at the University of South Carolina. The research aims to establish fundamental synthetic principles to control the rate of photophysical material response and integrate...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to enhance the design of fluorinated protein fibers and hydrogels for medical use. The key objectives are to: 1) generate coiled-coil fluorinated fibers for controlled drug encapsulation, 2) develop fluorinated coiled-coil hydrogels that can change with temperature, and 3) assess the potential of these fluorinated materials as imaging agents for 19F...
This $658,000 project grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the CFDA program titled "Mathematical and Physical Sciences." The project, led by Professors Hsin-Chih Yeh and Devleena Samanta at the University of Texas at Austin, aims to develop new types of functional nucleic acid molecules for detecting and imaging chemicals under various settings. Specifically, the researchers will use advanced selection, synthesis, and signal...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professor Lei Zhu of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University (FSU). This 3-year grant supports research to investigate the photophysical and photochemical properties of two categories of organic fluorescent dyes capable of proton transfer or charge transfer processes in their excited states. The goals...
This Project Grant award, valued at $555,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on developing advanced hybrid J-aggregate nanostructures. The primary objectives are to: Investigate how silica matrices influence the brightness, stability, and excitonic behavior of J-aggregate fluorophores, and explore solvent tunability through surface...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to advance the understanding of quantum materials and establish a design space for room-temperature superfluorescent quantum emitters. The research program brings together teams from Duke University with expertise in material synthesis, quantum property characterization, theory, and computational materials simulations. By systematically studying...
The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina State University $525,836 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for a three-year project grant completing July 2025. The university will research self-organizing nucleic acid supramolecular assemblies with stimuli-responsive properties. Specifically, the project aims to develop a toolkit for constructing responsive nanoparticle-based materials using rationally designed RNAs as modular building blocks. Researchers...