Project Grant 2500488
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research by professors Biwu Ma and Bin Ouyang of Florida State University, and professor Lin X. Chen of Northwestern University. The project aims to investigate how light-induced structural changes in organic metal halide hybrid materials affect their optical and electronic properties. The researchers will use a combination of material...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $957,580 to Florida State University from July 2022 through June 2025 to develop and study new organic metal halide hybrid materials with unique crystalline structures. Specifically, Professor Biwu Ma and his research team will focus on designing and synthesizing "zero-dimensional" organic metal halide hybrids containing both insulating and semiconducting organic components...
- This $495,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports Professor Richard Schaller of Northwestern University in investigating the transient structural evolution and dissipation in organic-inorganic hybrid materials. The project aims to use sophisticated time-resolved spectroscopies and X-ray methods to quantify the photoinduced structural changes, such as in bond angles,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $479,016 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Florida State University (FSU) to conduct research on understanding and controlling the molecular-level structure of metal ion-linked multilayer materials for applications in solar cells, catalysis, and other devices. The goal is to use techniques like polarized spectroscopy and vibrational analysis to elucidate the relationship between the structure of...
- This $539,895 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research Solid State and Materials Chemistry Program supports research to develop well-defined, stimuli-responsive materials with fast and reversible photophysical properties. The 3-year project, running from 09/01/2025 to 08/31/2028, aims to advance fundamental understanding of synthesis approaches that enable orthogonal or cooperative control over material properties in response to...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...
- This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports Professor Lei Zhu of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University in developing photosensitive organic compounds with interesting emission or photochemical properties. The goal is to understand the factors that control the behaviors of these compounds in response to light, with potential...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,762 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to a research team led by Erik Grumstrup at Montana State University and Jean-Hubert Olivier at the University of Miami. The grant supports collaborative research to elucidate exciton transport in hierarchical organic materials through time-resolved electronic and vibrational spectroscopy/microscopy. The researchers aim to provide fundamental understanding...
- This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research to design and discover new "heteroanionic" materials containing multiple types of negatively charged anion atoms. The goal is to understand how the atomic-scale structure of these complex materials influences their electronic, magnetic, and optical properties, enabling the development of advanced materials for...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $115,248 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports research to understand and control the interaction of light with matter, with the goal of improving the efficiency of technologies such as solar photovoltaic cells and light-emitting diodes. The key products and services to be delivered include: Fundamental research on singlet fission, triplet...
This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research by professors at Florida State University and Northwestern University to investigate how light-induced structural changes in organic metal halide hybrid materials affect their optical and electronic properties. The research team will employ a combination of material design, ultrafast optical and X-ray techniques, and computational modeling to study this class of hybrid materials with deformable lattices. The project aims to provide fundamental insights to guide the development of next-generation light-responsive materials and devices. Participating graduate and undergraduate students will receive interdisciplinary training in synthesis, spectroscopy, and theory. The findings will also support science education through outreach activities such as summer programs and public exhibitions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 7/28/25 |