Project Grant DESC0025389

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $550,879 to Purdue University to conduct time-resolved studies of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in natural photosynthesis. The project aims to use advanced spectroscopic techniques and computational modeling to gain new insights into the catalytic mechanism and molecular structure of the OEC, a protein that plays a critical role in water splitting and oxygen...

The National Science Foundation awarded $125,000 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to The Regents of the University of California for a project titled "Charge Transfer at Abiotic-Biotic Interface for Photosynthetic Biohybrids." The University of California, Berkeley will utilize the funding from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2026 to examine the fundamental electron transfer and energy transduction pathways in emerging photosynthetic biohybrid systems. Researchers will...

This three-year, $575,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toward molecular control of cage escape yields in bimolecular photochemistry. Professor Gerald Meyer and his team will study photo-initiated electron transfer reactions between photosensitizers and quenchers to gain mechanistic insights that allow optimization and prediction of quantum yields. A focus on excited state electron transfer and charge...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), is providing $486,160.00 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to design electrochemical photoreactors using single and ensemble multijunction silicon particles. The project will develop the fundamental principles to fabricate these microscopic silicon particles, stabilize them in water, and enable them to efficiently perform photoelectrochemistry - the process of...

This $574,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program will support a study led by Professor Jonathan S. Lindsey of North Carolina State University on synthesizing the key pigments involved in photosynthesis - chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls. The objectives are to streamline a recently developed synthetic route, explore a dehydrogenation approach to access different photosynthetic tetrapyrroles, and demonstrate...

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $277,074 provides funding over three years from September 2022 through August 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research between the University of Connecticut and Michigan State University. The researchers will investigate the photophysical mechanisms by which the orange carotenoid protein in cyanobacteria converts between resting and active states in response to light...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, totaling $499,660, will support research into elucidating the electron transfer pathways involved in photo-catalytic hydrogen generation using semiconductor nanocrystals and hydrogenase enzymes. Principal Investigator Professor Gordana Dukovic of the University of Colorado Boulder will examine how properties of quantum dot nanocrystals, such as composition, diameter, and surface chemistry, impact binding with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $267,000.00 in funding to Trustees of Boston University to conduct computational research and education focused on understanding the interaction of light with ordered assemblies of carbon-based organic molecules. The goal is to realize advanced solar energy conversion materials by developing physically intuitive models that elucidate the influence of molecular...

The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco received a three-year, $374,994 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant supports collaborative research titled "De Novo Protein Constructs for Photosynthetic Energy Transduction" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in photosynthesis through increasing the store of scientific knowledge on de...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $450,000 provides funding from July 2022 through June 2025 for mechanistic organic photochemistry research at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. The principal investigator, Professor Alexander Greer, will analyze oxygen-involving photochemical reactions and subsequent downstream processes to delineate primary from secondary, tertiary, and quaternary photo-oxidation mechanisms. This work aims to improve control of bacterial...