Project Grant 2454004
- This federal Project Grant award of $600,000.00 was provided by the Division of Chemistry within the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) to Professor Clifford P. Kubiak and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Department of Chemistry. The funding supports a 3-year research project from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028 that aims to develop an understanding of the effects of electric fields on electron transfer at interfaces. The goal is to...
- This $672,903 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports computational research by professors at Auburn University to study a novel class of electronic materials called solvated electron precursor electrides (SEPEs). The researchers are using advanced computational simulations to model the diffuse electrons in these materials, which could enable new applications in areas like quantum computing. The...
- This $525,177 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professor Christian R. Goldsmith at Auburn University. The funding supports the development and mechanistic characterization of new coordination complexes that functionally mimic the antioxidant enzyme catalase. The proposed catalase mimics are manganese, iron, and zinc complexes with redox-active organic ligands, with the goal of...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences), supports a collaborative research project between professors at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. The project aims to design and test new catalytic materials for the electrochemical synthesis of organonitrogen compounds, which have broad applications in industries such as agriculture and pharmaceuticals. The $212,882 award will fund...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $180,000.00 to a collaborative research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University. The project aims to study new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules, which are useful in polymers and agriculture. The researchers will develop analytical and...
- This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports collaborative research to accelerate the discovery and design of dynamically evolving catalyst materials. The researchers will integrate advanced computer modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning with experimental methods to study how catalyst structures evolve during reactions, with the goal of developing more active, stable, and...
- This Project Grant award for $700,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will enable Professor Christopher Grieco of Auburn University to use advanced time-resolved spectroscopies to study ion and charge carrier transport in conducting polymers. The research will focus on probing polaron trapping in electrochemically active polymers using ultrafast near-infrared transient absorption spectroscopy. This work aims to develop a...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a 4-year research project led by Professor Alexander Radosevich. The project aims to develop inexpensive, earth-abundant chemical catalysts capable of enabling novel bond-making and bond-breaking reactions. Specific research areas include using proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) to activate C-H...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) is supporting Professor Dmitry Peryshkov at the University of South Carolina to develop metal-free reagents and catalysts for the functionalization of organic compounds. The $508,998 award, running from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, will focus on designing ambiphilic phosphines decorated with boron cluster groups to mimic the behavior of transition metal catalysts....
- 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...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $563,881, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award, with an effective date of September 1, 2025 and an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2028, supports a research project led by Professors Ethan Hill and Paul Ohno of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Auburn University. The project will investigate the use of externally-applied electric fields to influence the reactivity of immobilized metalloporphyrin complexes, with the goal of developing new "switchable" catalysts for advanced chemical synthesis. The research will leverage a combination of electrochemical techniques and sum frequency generation spectroscopy to monitor changes at the metal centers and relate them to observed reactivity. This interdisciplinary collaboration between synthetic inorganic and experimental physical chemistry researchers will provide broad training for students across the chemical sciences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $563.9k | 8/14/25 |