This $689,017 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a research collaboration at the University of Texas at Austin to study the structure-function relationships of singlet fission and exciton transport in molecular crystals. The project, led by Professors Sean Roberts, Narayana Aluru, and Michael Cullinan, aims to develop micro-electromechanical devices to mechanically strain molecular crystals and use computational modeling and time-resolved microscopy to understand how structural changes impact the materials' ability to undergo singlet fission and transport triplet excitons. This research is expected to guide the design of singlet fission materials for energy harvesting and light detection applications. The award will also support the training of three graduate students and two undergraduate researchers from Austin Community College.
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