This $373,344 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project led by Professors Julie Biteen of the University of Michigan and David Masiello of the University of Washington. The project aims to develop a multifunctional, high-sensitivity instrument to measure plasmon-enhanced chirality and enable the sensing of subtle, heterogeneous...
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...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research by Diana Qiu of Yale University to develop theoretical and computational tools to understand how electrons in materials interact with circularly polarized light. The $424,443 award, running from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will focus on hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite materials that can couple...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Professor Shumaker-Parry's group at the University of Utah to develop plasmon-enhanced vibrational circular dichroism (PE-VCD) spectroscopy for improved analysis of chiral molecules. The $495,000 award will fund studies to: 1) enhance the VCD instrument for solid substrate measurements, 2) investigate the coupling of chiral molecules with...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a 3-year, $598,414 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley to develop advanced neural network-based atomistic models that predict the optical properties of chiral semiconductor nanocrystals. These materials have applications in next-generation technologies like filters, sensors, and displays. The project, led by Dr. Eran Rabani, aims to overcome challenges in understanding and predicting chiroptical properties at...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program is providing $449,457 in funding to the University of Delaware to develop new computational methods for modeling molecular polaritons - hybrid states arising from the interaction between molecules and confined light inside optical cavities. The project aims to advance the theoretical modeling of polariton chemistry and provide powerful computational tools for...
This $449,999 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research led by Professor George Schatz of Northwestern University. The project is developing new theory and computational methods to characterize the interaction of classical and quantum light with molecules, with applications in photon-based quantum computing and secure communications technologies. Key...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $315,593 to Yale University and Pennsylvania State University to collaboratively advance the characterization of chiral molecules and materials using metasurface-enabled broadband circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and imaging. The project focuses on designing, fabricating, and evaluating metasurfaces to significantly simplify...
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...