The Georgia Tech Research Corporation was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The three-year award, running from July 2021 through June 2024, will support research into side-chain driven assembly of polymer semiconductors. The grantee will leverage...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research on the assembly and organization of novel branched ionic polymers. The $640,000 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2028, funds Georgia Tech Research Corporation's efforts to study the formation of chiral helical nanostructures and stacked organic-inorganic heterostructures using these materials. Key objectives include leveraging ionic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Georgia TECH Research Corporation, also known as the Office of Sponsored Programs, for the period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027. The grant aims to develop a framework to expand polymer physics concepts and enable the predictable and controlled self-assembly of multi-component plastic semiconducting inks that can lead to targeted device...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $273,706 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Matmerize, Inc., a for-profit organization, to develop a physics-informed/encoded polymer informatics platform to accelerate the development of advanced polymers and formulations. The project aims to transform the way polymeric materials are developed by adopting advanced artificial intelligence techniques to dramatically expedite the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $496,696 Project Grant to Iowa State University to develop new classes of polymeric systems with tailored properties such as antimicrobial surfaces and cell-penetrating agents. The three-year grant, awarded from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will fund research to identify factors impacting the polymerization of sulfur-containing monomers, develop methods for post-polymerization installation of functional groups, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) a $461,594 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) program. The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will support research to advance the understanding of polymer gels, an important class of materials used in a variety of health, industrial, and defense applications. The project aims to correlate spatiotemporal fluctuations of individual polymer...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $742,587 Project Grant through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration Division. The grant supports Princeton's research to develop degradable polymers derived from commodity plastic monomers. Key objectives include investigating the kinetics and mechanisms of cobalt-mediated radical copolymerization of isocyanides and acrylates,...
This $430,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports research at Kenyon College to investigate how polymer topology and side-chain structure impact polymer degradation pathways. The principal investigator, Professor Yutan Getzler, will synthesize and characterize a range of cyclic homopolymers and copolymers, examining how factors like topology and side chains influence polymer stability and depolymerization...
This $640,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program, supports a collaborative research effort between Professors Wooley and Darensbourg of Texas A&M University. The objective is to develop sustainable synthetic methodologies that harness the chemical diversity of natural products to produce next-generation macromolecular materials. The proposed work aims to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $482,500 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research exploring chemically functionalized polymers for nanoscale structures and interfaces from November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2025. Professor Todd Emrick and his team will work to advance fundamental aspects of polymeric and sustainable chemistry by discovering unique combinations of polymers and...