The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Illinois to conduct active control of crystal growth from fluxes and vapors. The award period is from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The University of Illinois, a renowned public land-grant research university, will leverage its expertise in advanced materials research, scientific instrumentation, and experimental...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $218,459.00 to the University of Illinois for a research project titled "IRRADIATION TAILORING OF DEFORMATION-INDUCED PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS." The project will run from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2025. The funding supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through scientific...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $525,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Chicago. The grant will support research on "COLLOIDAL GROUP III-NITRIDE QUANTUM DOTS FOR OPTOELECTRONIC AND PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATIONS" from August 15, 2024 to August 14, 2025. The University of Chicago, a renowned private research institution, will conduct this advanced scientific research project focused on...
The Department of Defense awarded a $615,454 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) on May 15, 2025. The grant supports fundamental and exploratory research on "Modular Quantum Computing with Optical Cavities and Transportable Atom Arrays" to be performed at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL. This research effort aims to expand scientific knowledge and develop innovative quantum computing capabilities that could...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $599,912 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds research to push the boundaries of classical and quantum information processing toward enhanced security and energy-efficient reliability. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields to...
The University of Illinois was awarded a three-year, $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research titled "TRANSPORT AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN STRONGLY CORRELATED QUANTUM MATTER." The grant will support research into transport and superconductivity in strongly correlated quantum matter from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress...
This Project Grant award of $900,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Purdue University. The award, effective September 1, 2024, supports the "QUANTUM RYDBERG PHOTONICS" research project, with a planned completion date of August 31, 2025. Purdue University, a prominent public research institution, will leverage its robust research infrastructure and specialized facilities to conduct fundamental scientific...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $799,742 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Chicago. The grant supports the "MACH-Q: Modular and Error-Aware Software Stack for Heterogeneous Quantum Computing Ecosystems" project, which aims to develop advanced software capabilities for heterogeneous quantum computing systems. The project will run from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. As a leading...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $885,488 Project Grant to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support an adaptive, analytic multiscale modeling project using pseudospectral wavepackets. The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas like advanced computing and materials research. IIT, a renowned...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $476,170 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The grant supports the development of a new class of tunable materials consisting of colloidal quantum dots with independently controlled size, shape, and composition. Researchers will investigate the fundamental thermodynamics and kinetics governing the synthesis and growth of these novel linear quantum dot...