The University of Chicago was awarded a $299,957 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on the "Chemistry of β-Graphyne: Exfoliation, Intercalation, and Pathways to Novel Carbon Phases." The award period runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports fundamental scientific research across multiple disciplines to advance U.S. energy,...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $550,000 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry on June 1, 2024, supports research by Professor Dmitri Talapin of the University of Chicago on the development of affordable III-V semiconductor quantum dots. The goal is to create more cost-effective materials for high-performance solar cells, LEDs, and lasers, which currently rely on expensive III-V semiconductor manufacturing processes. The research program seeks...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $749,995 Project Grant by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the "SMART STACK: SCALABLE, MODULAR, ADAPTABLE, RECONFIGURABLE, ERROR-TARGETED APPROACHES TO QUANTUM STACK DESIGN" project. The funding will advance research and development of innovative quantum computing technologies from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. This grant aligns with the Office of Science's mission to...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $653,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Illinois for the "REAL-SPACE CHARACTERIZATION OF PHOTO-EXCITED QUANTUM MATERIALS" project. The project, which runs from August 15, 2024 to June 14, 2026, will focus on advancing fundamental scientific research related to photo-excited quantum materials. As a major public research institution, the University of...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Army Materiel Command's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431) provides $220,100 to the University of Chicago to support the development of a "Quantum Sensing and Imaging Enabled Through a High-Sensitivity NIR II Camera" from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026. The research aims to expand scientific knowledge and technological capabilities in quantum computing, materials science, and other strategic disciplines that...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $384,878 project grant to the University of Chicago to support research exploring mid-infrared colloidal quantum dot light emitting diodes. The objectives of the research are to synthesize novel bright mid-infrared semiconductor quantum dots and incorporate them into mid-infrared LEDs. If successful, a combination of inorganic quantum dot LEDs and detectors made through solution processing and...
This $1,129,224 federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports the University of Chicago in building a phonon-based quantum computer. The 5-year award, starting on December 1, 2024, will fund research to advance fundamental understanding and applied capabilities in quantum computing technologies with potential naval and national defense applications. As a leading research institution, the University...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $600,000.00 to Northwestern University to conduct research on the "DATA-DRIVEN DISCOVERY OF MULTICOMPONENT METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITES USING MEGALIBRARIES." The project period runs from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2026. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $610,000.00 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on September 15, 2024. The award supports the research project "PROBING THE CHARGE TRANSFER AND ENERGY TRANSDUCTION IN QUANTUM DOT/MICROBE BIOHYBRIDS" which aims to advance scientific understanding and technological capabilities in areas such as quantum information...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $799,742.00 to the University of Chicago to develop a "Modular and Error-Aware Software Stack for Heterogeneous Quantum Computing Ecosystems" (MACH-Q). The project aims to advance research and innovation in quantum computing by creating a flexible and adaptive software platform to support diverse quantum hardware and error-mitigation...