Project Grant 2508569
- 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...
- Through a Project Grant award of $488,035 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Purdue University is investigating ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics in metal chalcogenide nanoclusters and their assembled superatomic materials. The principal investigator, Hanzhe Liu, is using ultrashort extreme ultraviolet light pulses to observe real-time electronic and atomic motions within these superatomic solids. This technique...
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) awarded a $288,120 project grant to Professor Hibbitts of Purdue University and Professor Plaisance of Louisiana State University. The grant supports the development of a new computational model to study the effects of adlayer formation on the surfaces of heterogeneous catalysts. The researchers are creating an "implicit" model to more efficiently simulate how the presence of other adsorbed...
- Purdue University was awarded a $299,833 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on January 1, 2022 for research titled "NON-MEAN FIELD TREATMENTS OF SURFACE CHEMISTRY: INCORPORATING ADSORBATE-ADSORBATE INTERACTIONS INTO DETERMINISTIC KINETIC THEORIES." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Purdue University a $575,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports Professor Christopher Uyeda's research on developing multi-metallic catalysts to improve the efficiency and sustainability of chemical processes used in medicine, agriculture, and polymer chemistry. Key activities include designing new ligands that can bind multiple metals to create more active and...
- Purdue University was awarded a $1,058,785 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2026. The grant funds research to develop colloidal ligand-exchange synthesis techniques for producing dilute noble metal surfaces suitable for electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide. The work aims to advance understanding of major problems in materials science and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $301,280 to Purdue University and Louisiana State University to develop a new computational model for studying the effects of adsorbed species on catalyst surfaces during chemical reactions. The researchers are creating an "implicit" model that can more efficiently capture the impact of these adlayers on catalyst reactivity, selectivity, and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professor Jeremy Smith at Indiana University. The funding will support research to develop the chemistry of first-row transition metal carbides, which are integral to alternative energy sources like the Fischer-Tropsch process. The project aims to provide fundamental insights into the properties of these "metal carbide"...
- This $575,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to synthesize and study the reactivity of unusual main group elements stabilized by transition metal isocyanide complexes, from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. Specifically, Professor Joshua S. Figueroa will manipulate boron monofluoride and diphosphorus molecules, which are...
- This $851,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and educational activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from February 2022 through January 2027. Frederique Deiss of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will study redox reactions and single particle detection using electrochemiluminescence and microfluidics. The research aims to develop single-entity electrochemistry methods using electrochemiluminescence in droplets...
This $525,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports Professor Julia Laskin at Purdue University to conduct fundamental research on the reactivity of complex metal ion compounds deposited onto model surfaces. The research aims to develop a generalizable approach for preparing and studying well-defined solid-liquid interfaces to gain molecular-level insights into surface-mediated chemical transformations relevant to energy technologies, catalysis, and molecular electronics. Key activities include systematically examining how factors like ion stability, structural changes, and charge retention influence the reactivity of deposited species using advanced mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, and electrochemical techniques. The project integrates the research into undergraduate analytical chemistry education and outreach, with a focus on workforce development.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $525.0k | 8/26/25 |