The University of Oregon received a three-year Project Grant award of $630,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on Fluorescent Pn-Heterocycles in Supramolecular Chemistry and Recognition. The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The funding will support the University's work using fluorescent organic compounds to advance understanding of molecular recognition and self-assembly in...
Professor Michael Haley and his research group at the University of Oregon received a three-year $575,795 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study non-benzenoid molecules with applications in organic electronics. The group will prepare expanded aromatic structures to examine fundamental scientific questions regarding antiaromaticity and diradical character, as well as explore materials properties. Key goals include...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $500,000 project grant to the University of Oregon to support research titled "Chemistry of Strained Molecules with Radially Conjugated π Systems" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. This award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing...
This Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, Grant No. 47.049, supports research by Professor Lei Zhu of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. The goal is to understand the factors, both structural and environmental, that control the photophysical and photochemical properties of two categories of organic fluorescent dyes. The first category will have the capability of excited...
This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports research by Professor Ramesh Jasti at the University of Oregon to harness the reactivity of strained macrocycles for the synthesis and fabrication of diverse carbon nanostructures. The overarching goals are to advance scientific knowledge, develop new materials with unique photophysical and electronic properties, and train the next generation of synthetic...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $605,020 to Professor Byron Purse of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at San Diego State University to study the design and properties of fluorescent nucleobase analogues (FBAs). The research aims to investigate the mechanisms of fluorescence turn-on in response to base pairing and stacking, improve the photostability of pyrimidine analogue FBAs, and explore...
Purdue University received a $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to develop new luminescent molecules for applications in organic light-emitting devices. Under the award, Professor Alexander Wei and his team will synthesize and study rigid metal-azole macrocycles and networks to correlate their structure with luminescent and color-switching properties. Specifically, the researchers aim to: 1) relate azole structure to the rigidochromism of corresponding copper...
This $550,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry's Chemical Structure, Dynamics & Mechanisms B Program supports research by Professor Etienne Garand at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project aims to (i) directly quantify the singlet-triplet gap in azaphenalene molecules via cryogenic anion photoelectron spectroscopy, (ii) develop a semi-empirical model to estimate the inverted singlet-triplet gap, and (iii) measure the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Oregon for research titled "Quantum Dynamical Studies of Time-Resolved Nonlinear Optical Signals from Spatially Oriented Electronic Energy Transfer Complexes." The three-year award runs from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The University of Oregon will use the funding to conduct research on quantum dynamical studies...
The University of Oregon was awarded a $380,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to conduct research on molecular recognition of anionic sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen species from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of...