Project Grant 2505763
- This $688,144 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research effort led by Professors Ilya Zharov and John Conboy of the University of Utah. The project aims to elucidate the molecular-level interactions between polymer-grafted silica nanoparticles during self-assembly using sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. The researchers will systematically investigate how...
- This Project Grant award of $450,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports Purdue University's research to develop new electroanalytical tools for studying chemistry in microdroplets. The project aims to provide detailed insights into how chemical reactions are accelerated and how reactive species are generated at the interface of small liquid droplets suspended in gas or immiscible liquids. The new measurement methods will...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $432,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Utah. The funding supports a research project led by Professor Jon Rainier that aims to utilize light-driven photoelectrocyclization reactions to synthesize complex, optically active molecules with potential pharmaceutical, agricultural, and materials applications. The project seeks to uncover fundamental photochemical phenomena and...
- This $101,088 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of Utah to develop a new approach for the identification and quantitative analysis of surfactants - an important class of chemical compounds. Specifically, Professor Long Luo and his group are using gas bubble-surfactant interactions to establish a selective and sensitive electrochemical detection method coupled with...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program provides $600,000 in funding to Professor Evan Williams of the University of California, Berkeley to investigate the chemistry and physics of charged water droplets. The key objectives are to understand droplet fission, the crystallization process in evaporating nanodroplets, and the initial formation and properties of droplets produced by...
- The University of Colorado Boulder received a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to develop enhanced nano-cavity spectroscopy and imaging techniques. Led by Professor Markus Raschke, the research aims to study the fundamental electronic and vibrational excitations in chemical systems by leveraging nano-scale imaging, spectroscopy, and optical nano-cavity concepts. The project will investigate how light...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $302,000 in funding to Northwestern University to conduct research on "In Operando Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy at Solid/Liquid Interfaces: Driving Surface Wettability with Light and Electric Field Gradients." The project, supported by the NSF Chemical Structure and Dynamics program and the German Research Foundation (DFG), aims to quantify the...
- Under a $470,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professors de Vries and Gordon at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will develop a novel nanoscale sampling and chemical analysis technique. This "nanoscale-biopsy" approach will allow for high-resolution imaging and detailed chemical characterization of minuscule samples, addressing a critical need in areas such as chemical diagnostics,...
- This $126,656 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research effort led by Professors Julie Biteen of the University of Michigan and David Masiello of the University of Washington. The goal is to develop a multifunctional, high-sensitivity instrument to measure plasmon-enhanced chirality and enable sensing of subtle, heterogeneous changes in chirality at the single-molecule...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $230,111 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. This 3-year grant, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, supports two scientific research threads: (1) fundamental research on liquid crystals, their suspensions, and related applications; and (2) investigations of extreme wave phenomena in photonic devices, with a focus on epsilon near...
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) awarded Utah State University (USU) a $475,000 Project Grant to develop a new nonlinear optical spectroscopy technique to directly probe molecular behaviors on the surfaces of single droplets. With this funding, Dr. Yi Rao and his students at USU will build a single-droplet surface spectrometer to address limitations in current instrumentation by directly studying the surface chemistry of small-volume single droplets. The project aims to advance the fundamental understanding of surface reactivity in droplet chemistry through two main research avenues: 1) building and analyzing second-harmonic, electronic sum-frequency, and vibrational sum-frequency scattering spectroscopies of single droplet surfaces, and 2) investigating the adsorption of molecules onto droplet surfaces from the surrounding gas and the effects of physical and chemical settings on these adsorption processes. The award, which runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will also support the integration of research findings into USU's undergraduate and graduate teaching and outreach efforts to inspire the next generation of STEM students, professionals, and educators.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $475.0k | 7/30/25 |