Project Grant 2514911
- This $650,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry supports the research of Dr. Raphael Florentino Ribeiro of Emory University. The award, effective December 1, 2023 through November 30, 2028, aims to develop new theoretical approaches and computational methods for investigating chemical phenomena in microenvironments that confine light and interact strongly with matter. The research will computationally explore strategies to achieve...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professors Uttam Manna and Mahua Biswas of Illinois State University. The $391,078 grant, effective from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, supports research on "selective excitation and charge dynamics of dark molecular transitions." The researchers will use engineered nanostructures called metasurfaces to investigate how light interacts with...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $629,867 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Austin. The funding supports research by Dr. Doran Bennett to develop new computational methods for simulating excited-state dynamics and nonlinear spectroscopy of molecular materials at the mesoscale (10nm - 1μm). The project aims to establish how specific materials absorb and deploy energy from light, providing essential...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year, $550,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Under this grant, Professor Sherri McFarland and her team will examine the redox and excited state properties of oligothiophene-containing ruthenium(II) complexes, which have important applications as photosensitizers in fields ranging from solar energy conversion to photomedicine. The primary...
- This $550,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the role of non-covalent interactions in the excited state dynamics of heterocyclic compounds. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Professor de Vries at the University of California, Santa Barbara will experimentally study how such compounds respond to ultraviolet radiation using gas phase spectroscopy. Computational chemists will model the results to compare quantum...
- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $426,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct collaborative research on developing novel protein-based materials for photosynthetic energy transduction. The multi-year project, led by Professors Michael Therien and David Beratan of Duke University and William DeGrado of UCSF, aims to design and construct protein-based...
- The $209,101 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds a collaborative research project between North Carolina State University and the University of Miami from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The project aims to develop a new class of synthetic dyes with photoactivatable fluorescence for bioimaging applications through the synthesis, characterization, and single-molecule spectroscopic analysis of four series of...
- This $199,125 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) is funding a collaborative research effort between the University of Cincinnati and the University of Kansas to develop advanced photocatalysts that can be activated by near-infrared (NIR) light. The research team, led by Professor Yujie Sun and Professor Christopher Elles, is designing and synthesizing novel molecular chromophores with enhanced two-photon...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $655,882 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Texas at Austin. The grant, awarded on September 15, 2025 and running through August 31, 2028, supports a research project led by Professors Sean Roberts and Niels Damrauer, along with collaborators from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. The project aims to investigate unique quantum states generated by singlet fission...
This $550,000 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of North Texas (UNT). The funding supports Professor Francis D'Souza's research to build wide-band capturing chromophore dimers that can undergo symmetry-breaking charge separation upon photo-illumination. The goal is to better understand the interplay between exciton dynamics and charge separation, and the role of molecular structure and solvent in governing these processes. This research aims to develop highly absorptive molecular systems that can enable high-efficiency optoelectronic devices, while also providing an excellent training platform for graduate and undergraduate students. The project period runs from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $550.0k | 8/26/25 |