Project Grant DESC0015786

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $645,309 to Northwestern University to develop techniques for precision measurements on atoms and molecules trapped within inert cryogenic crystals from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The researchers will produce the first doped cryocrystals suitable for searches beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. They will grow large inert...

This $264,134 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to grow large single crystals of noncentrosymmetric compounds and study their nonlinear optical properties. The PI and a graduate student will learn techniques to grow centimeter-sized single crystals and analyze the nonlinear optical properties, including coefficients, second-harmonic generation,...

This $165,123 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of new computational methods and software tools for predicting polymorphic crystal structures of organic molecules and elucidating phase transition mechanisms. Mark Tuckerman of New York University and Jerome Delhommelle of the University of North Dakota will create a topological theory for crystal structure generation based solely on molecular order...

This three-year, $247,500 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Stanford University to assess the effect of microgravity on the growth and properties of metal-organic framework crystals. The NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded the funding under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the project will grow three types of MOF crystals in microgravity on the International Space Station and under normal...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,735 Project Grant to Harvard University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to acquire a dual-source single crystal diffractometer for small molecule crystallography and cryosystem. The diffractometer will allow Professor Theodore Betley and colleagues to conduct accurate structural analyses of molecules, providing three-dimensional atomic arrangements and spatial relationships between molecules and neighboring...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $375,801 Project Grant to the University of Utah to develop new synthetic routes and self-assembly strategies for fabricating large-area, defect-free 2D coordination polymers (2DCPs). This research, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to identify the kinetic bottlenecks leading to defect formation in 2DCPs and unlock their potential as topological materials for quantum...

This five-year $343,613 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into realizing next-generation light-material interactions via directional, collective photoluminescence and energy transport of surface-sensitive nanocrystals. The University of California, Los Angeles will investigate the photophysics of cesium lead halide nanocrystals to correlate their tunable, directional photoluminescence to superfluorescence and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research provides $510,414 to Northwestern University from May 15, 2023 through April 30, 2026. The funding supports research into developing analogs of topologically non-trivial crystals using superconducting hybrid devices, with the goal of studying signatures of non-trivial topology. Specifically, the award will fabricate devices mimicking higher dimensional crystal structures by placing superconductors in contact...

This Project Grant award for $416,387 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to investigate emergent phenomena, phases, properties, and principles in a unique platform of crystalline two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors - rhombohedral graphene multilayers. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the prime awardee, leveraging its expertise in both experimental and theoretical domains to establish this...

This Project Grant award of $284,687 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research on ferroelectric two-dimensional semiconductor materials at Stanford University. The key objectives are to: (1) synthesize large single crystals of molybdenum and tungsten-based rhombohedral transition metal dichalcogenides with controlled doping; (2) use advanced...