Project Grant 2522792
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry award provides $760,000 over 4 years to support an interdisciplinary research project led by Professors Colin Nuckolls and Xavier Roy of Columbia University. The project aims to explore the development of a new class of macromolecular materials that combine electronic and chiral properties, with the goal of understanding how chirality can be used to control spin-selective electron transport. This research will integrate advanced design...
- This $272,000 Project Grant awarded on August 15, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research at Yale University to unravel how the chiral (handedness) properties of organic-inorganic semiconductor materials can be used to control electron spin transport, without relying on electrical charge movement. The research aims to enable new mechanisms for spin-based electronics (spintronics) that can...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program is providing $700,000 to the University of Chicago for a research project titled "CAREER: Molecular Control of Interfacial Chirality and Spin Dynamics". The project, led by Professor Sarah B. King, aims to investigate how molecular chirality influences spin-selective charge and energy transport at material interfaces. Using advanced time-resolved...
- 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 $430,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will enable a collaborative research effort to explore how polymers can be designed to leverage electron spin properties using light. The research team will develop new macromolecular architectures to control exciton dynamics and spin interactions in radical-containing polymers. This work aims to harness the high spin polarization of triplet pair multiexciton states...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $437,999 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to North Carolina State University (NC State) to investigate how molecular chirality can be used to control the spin transport properties of hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors. The 3-year research project aims to understand how the handedness and orientation of organic components in these materials impacts anisotropic spin absorption, with the goal of...
- This $590,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a study by Professors Oliver Monti of the University of Arizona and Yonatan Dubi of Ben Gurion University on the emergence of spin polarization at chiral interfaces. The researchers will utilize sophisticated electron spectroscopies and scattering theory to characterize the transmission of electrons passing through layers of chiral molecules, with the goal...
- This Project Grant award of $285,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund a collaborative research project to explore how polymers can be designed to leverage electron spin properties using light. The research team at the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) will develop new macromolecular architectures to enable control over exciton dynamics and spin interactions in radical-containing polymers. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $446,318 to support research on chiral interactions in superconducting-magnetic junctions. The goal is to improve interconnects between magnetic bits by exploring how chiral molecules, ferromagnets, and superconductors can be combined to manipulate and control spin transport. Key activities include investigating phase coherence using Aharonov-Bohm...
- This Project Grant award of $532,245.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research by Professors Jin Zhang of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Yuan Ping of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The researchers are using advanced computational and laser techniques to study the behavior of electron spin in two-dimensional (2D) lead-free metal halide double perovskites. This...
This Project Grant awarded by the Division of Chemistry, Office of Strategic Initiatives, and Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $2,000,000 to Prof. Ying Diao and collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington to develop novel approaches to impart materials with the ability to control electron spin. The project aims to unveil fundamental design rules for chiral emergence from achiral semiconducting polymers, leveraging the ability of chiral structures to control electronic spin in order to modulate chemical reaction pathways and increase the efficiency of electron transfer and energy transduction. The research seeks to revolutionize electronic and energy materials by introducing supramolecular chirality, merging areas of semiconducting polymers, chirality-induced spin selectivity, and electrocatalysis. The project will pursue a two-pronged approach of hypothesis-driven discoveries and data-driven autonomous experimentation to discover chiral emergence from achiral high-performance redox-active conducting polymers. The research and educational activities, including a high school summer camp and an electrochemical bootcamp, aim to increase the STEM workforce.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $2.0m | 8/22/25 |