The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $942,249 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, supports research on "Molecular Control of Spin-Entangled Triplet Excitons from Singlet Fission". This fundamental scientific research project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with CFDA # 47.049, provides $675,000 in funding to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation over a 3-year period starting September 1, 2024. The award supports three separate experimental programs aimed at exploring the fundamental structure of the universe through high-energy particle physics research. The first two programs will investigate the processes of hadronization -...
The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The grant, awarded on Sep 1, 2024, supports the project "CARBON-NEGATIVE CRITICAL METAL RECOVERY FROM E-WASTES THROUGH RESPONSIBLE DESIGN OF SOLVENTS", which aims to develop innovative processes for recovering critical metals from electronic waste in a carbon-negative manner. The University of...
This $391,972 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to mitigate dynamic disorder in crystalline organic semiconductors. The University of Kentucky Research Foundation, the awardee, will synthesize and study three new classes of organic semiconductors to elucidate the relationships between phonon modes (molecular vibrations) and charge transport. This research aims to develop design rules...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $952,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. for the project "ENGINEERING HIGH-TEMPERATURE MAGNETIC QUANTUM PHASES IN ATOMICALLY THIN MATERIALS". The grant period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. This award supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities...
This Project Grant award of $271,395 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research by the University of Kentucky Research Foundation on neutron scattering experiments to study the properties of magnetic Weyl semimetals. The goal is to develop new analysis techniques to exploit advanced data collection capabilities at modern neutron scattering facilities like the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This will...
This federal Project Grant award of $599,934, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports research at Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc. to investigate the interplay between electronic topology and magnetism in magnetic topological materials. The 12-month project, which began on February 1, 2025, aims to advance scientific understanding and technological innovation in areas such as quantum...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded Drexel University a $882,890 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to advance quantum magnetism research in the topology era. The grant, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, will fund innovative, hypothesis-driven scientific investigations aimed at transformative discoveries that can support U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities. The research will focus on quantum...
The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy awarded a $680,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025 under the Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration program (CFDA #81.121). The award will support the Nuclear Energy University Programs Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research project being led by the University of Kentucky in partnership with the University of New Mexico and Los...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $407,355.00 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on "Geometrically Frustrated Magnets with Exotic Archimedean Lattices". The award period runs from August 1, 2024, to July 31, 2025. The research aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas such as materials science and...