Project Grant 2619002
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Southern California received a $647,636 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. Principal Investigator Anna Krylov will develop novel coupled-cluster electronic structure methods to advance theoretical spectroscopy modeling capabilities in both core and valence domains, with particular...
- This two-year, $498,428 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.049) will fund research into utilizing interband transitions in metallic nanoparticles for photocatalysis. Professor Son Nguyen and researchers at the University of California, Merced will investigate how metallic nanoparticles absorb photons and accelerate chemical reactions. They will vary photon energy, observe corresponding chemical products, and correlate...
- This $600,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports fundamental research on light-to-electrical energy conversion in nanoscale metal-semiconductor hybrid materials. The research, conducted at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and active from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2029, focuses on characterizing and optimizing how light absorbed by noble...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Southern California received a $665,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded April 1, 2026, with completion targeted for March 31, 2030. This collaborative research initiative, conducted jointly with German partners under the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program, focuses on...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded $353,549 to the University of Southern California under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on July 1, 2025, for a three-year project extending through June 30, 2028. This collaborative research initiative, conducted in partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, investigates N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands as alternatives to traditional thiol-based coatings...
- The University of Southern California was awarded a $306,214 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research into "Photocatalysis Without Metals: Design Rules for Organic Photoredox Chemistry" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The project aims to advance understanding of major problems in chemistry by promoting progress in the mathematical and physical...
- The University of Southern California was awarded a $264,626 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund a three-year collaborative research project between September 2021 and August 2024 to advance the understanding of surface catalysis mechanisms through detailed experimental and theoretical studies using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. The grantee and its...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will provide $334,727 to the University of South Carolina to investigate the surface reactivity of semiconductor and magnetic nanocrystals. The project, led by Professor Andrew Greytak, aims to achieve selective modification of nanocrystal surfaces to enable new applications in electronic displays, sensing, quantum technologies, and biomarker detection. Key activities...
- This $548,709 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research into developing new solution-based inks for low-cost thin film deposition. The University of Southern California (USC) will explore two novel material chemistry directions under this grant: Utilizing thiol-amine-based inks to deposit perovskite-inspired solar absorber thin films based on environmentally stable, lead-free sulfosalt minerals. The...
- The University of Southern California received a $144,647 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research on July 1, 2021 to fund research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) through June 30, 2022. The grant supports research titled "EAGER-Harnessing Natural Killer Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Anti-Viral Nanomaterials" to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences....
The University of Southern California received a $472,209 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049—Mathematical and Physical Sciences) beginning July 1, 2026 and concluding June 30, 2029. The award funds research on distinctive structures and phase transitions in nanoscale particles and clusters using the photoelectric effect as a diagnostic tool. The research team will measure work function shifts in individual metal nanoparticles to detect and characterize structural and phase changes at the nanoscale, including phenomena such as anomalous melting behavior, temperature-dependent phase transitions, and simultaneous existence of multiple dimensional phases not observed in bulk materials. The research has applications across materials science, surface science, energy devices including solar cells and lithium-ion batteries, and liquid metals research. The project will deliver fundamental scientific insights into nanoscale material behavior through experimental characterization of ultrapure metal nanoparticles using photoelectric effect measurements. Beyond the direct research outputs, the award includes educational and outreach components, providing graduate and undergraduate students with training in interdisciplinary nanoscale science and facilitating research involvement and public engagement through science fairs and student societies.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $472.2k | 6/24/26 |