Project Grant 2619800
- Federal Grant Award Summary Rice University received a $400,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. Under the direction of Professor László Kórti, the research project develops innovative synthetic chemistry reactions for constructing nitrogen-containing heterocycles by strategically cleaving weak nitrogen-oxygen (N-O) bonds to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary William Marsh Rice University received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective April 15, 2025, with a completion date of March 31, 2028. The project focuses on understanding and managing (bi)carbonate salt formation in electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) electrolyzers to improve long-term operational...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary William Marsh Rice University received a $1.99M project grant awarded October 1, 2025, through the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), specifically through the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award funds a Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future (DMREF) initiative focused on developing flash joule heating (FJH) as an electrified, energy-efficient method for cement clinker...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary William Marsh Rice University received a $540,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. The award supports the development of tunable opto-electric network architectures designed to advance energy-efficient and high-performance cloud computing infrastructure. The...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary William Marsh Rice University received a $346,682 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027, to conduct research on multi-modal charge transfer interfaces for polariton sensing. This award supports fundamental research aligned with the Office of Science's mission to advance basic scientific discovery in the physical sciences. The research will be conducted at Rice...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary William Marsh Rice University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The research project focuses on developing innovative methods to enhance the therapeutic protein secretion capacity of engineered cells for direct injection-based therapeutic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary William Marsh Rice University received a $375,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2028. The project focuses on developing electrical and optical control methods for cavity-coupled single T center spins in silicon to advance quantum networking applications. The primary...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded Rice University $550,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program on June 15, 2025, to support Professor Hans Renata's research on chemoenzymatic total synthesis of complex terpenoid natural products through May 31, 2028. The research develops hybrid synthetic strategies combining enzymatic catalysis with modern organic chemistry methodologies to efficiently synthesize...
- Federal Grant Award Summary William Marsh Rice University received a $345,625 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative will develop advanced polymeric membranes and experimental methodologies to enable precise control and measurement of pore and void structures within...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary William Marsh Rice University received a $140,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This award supports the development of risk-sensitive learning-augmented adaptive control algorithms designed to address operational challenges in complex networked systems. The research will advance...
William Marsh Rice University received a $240,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2030. This international collaborative research initiative, conducted in partnership with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, focuses on developing hybrid optical metasurfaces (HOMS)—photonic architectures combining dielectric and metallic nanoantennas to enable precise control of photochemical reactions. The project delivers a multiphysics modeling platform that integrates photon absorption, charge carrier generation and transport, and coupled heat and reactant transport mechanisms to advance spatio-temporal control of photocatalysis in confined microenvironments. The research outputs will include programmable light-driven microreactor designs that allow switching of reaction outcomes through adjustable illumination conditions, advancing sustainable manufacturing by improving reaction selectivity and efficiency while reducing energy consumption and byproducts. Beyond technical deliverables, the award supports interdisciplinary workforce development through training at the intersection of nanophotonics, thermal transport, and chemistry, and will establish experimentally benchmarked frameworks applicable to chemical manufacturing processes. The collaborative structure leverages Rice University's modeling expertise with EPFL's complementary capabilities to translate fundamental insights into practical design principles for next-generation photocatalytic systems.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $240.0k | 7/13/26 |