Project Grant DESC0019667

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $250,000 to Professor Abu-Omar of the University of California, Santa Barbara through July 2024 to develop catalytic processes for upgrading biomass-derived chemicals into renewable feedstocks. Specifically, the funding supports research designing metal oxide catalysts to selectively transform mixtures of molecules from biomass deconstruction into important monomers. It...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $499,842 awarded on February 1, 2022 will support research into understanding and exploiting the favorable role of non-stoichiometric oxygen in bulk metal oxide catalyzed partial oxidation of light alkanes. The University of Houston will conduct the research under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) through January 31, 2025. The project aims to develop a novel catalytic approach for enhancing ethene production from ethane while decreasing...

This three-year, $360,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will support research at the University of Minnesota exploring alkali metal-based selective combustion catalysts. The goal is to develop an improved process for converting light hydrocarbon alkanes to olefins, key building blocks for polymer materials production. The University of Minnesota team will systematically study the structural and...

This $200,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund fundamental research into catalysts for the selective hydrogenation of aromatic hydrocarbons. The grantee, The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, will conduct an integrated experimental and theoretical study to establish relationships between the structure of transition metal...

Professor Karen Goldberg of the University of Pennsylvania will develop new catalytic systems for the selective conversion of natural gas to higher-value chemicals using oxygen as the oxidant under a $575,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry. The three-year award, made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support the design of transition metal complexes capable of selectively activating and functionalizing alkane C-H...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $273,000 to Purdue University to develop porous bi-layer catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into valuable C2+ products like ethylene at industrially relevant rates. A collaborative team from Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will engineer novel layered catalyst structures...

This $345,943 National Science Foundation Project Grant through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the development of heterobimetallic catalysts for the facile hydrodenitrogenation of aromatic nitrogen-containing compounds present in petroleum feedstocks and gasoline. Principal Investigator Virginia Montiel-Palma of Mississippi State University will design catalyst candidates incorporating two metals to react with and cleave carbon-nitrogen bonds in these compounds under...

This $299,289 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of novel non-precious metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction by researchers at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The collaborative team will synthesize metal complexes supported on carbon nanotube and graphene materials and evaluate them as catalysts for oxygen reduction in proton exchange...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $249,993 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The grant supports research by Professor Obioma Uche and her students examining the use of transition metal sulfide catalysts for the sulfur-assisted oxidative coupling of methane to produce ethylene. The project will employ computational methods...

This $399,998 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Lehigh University from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The university will investigate molecular structure-activity relationships of mixed oxide catalysts for converting ethane to ethylene via oxidative dehydrogenation. Researchers will employ in situ and operando spectroscopy, transient kinetics analysis, and theoretical modeling to determine surface...