Project Grant DESC0025524

This $600,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into the diffusion of water confined in patterned hydrophilic-hydrophobic nanopores within metal-organic frameworks. Professors Laura Gagliardi of the University of Chicago and Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley will lead teams performing quantum mechanical calculations and nuclear magnetic resonance...

This five-year, $616,685 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at Arizona State University to elucidate the synergistic effects of composition, porosity, and structural rigidity on the mechanics of metallic organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are porous hybrid materials consisting of metallic ions connected by organic linkers to form a vast reinforced network with potential for industrial CO2 capture, separation, and storage applications. The grant will support an integrated...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $189,724 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Florida for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CROSSING THE PERCOLATION THRESHOLD FOR SELECTIVE GAS TRANSPORT USING INTERCONNECTED CRYSTALS OF METAL–ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS IN POLYMER-BASED HYBRID MEMBRANES." The three-year grant will support research from July 2021 to June 2024 to develop hybrid membrane materials combining metal–organic...

This three-year $580,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research into quantifying the role of interfaces in liquid separation membranes based on carbon molecular sieves. The goal is to develop fundamental knowledge of how interfaces impact liquid transport across carbon molecular sieve membranes at length scales below and above one micrometer. Investigators will combine advanced diffusion...

Tetramer Technologies LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support research and development activities focused on metal organic framework manufacturing technology. The period of performance for this award is June 27, 2022 through June 26, 2023. The award is being provided under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $300,000 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to collaborate with NASA Ames Research Center on developing new porous sorbents for low-pressure carbon dioxide (CO2) capture. The goal is to engineer defects in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to increase their CO2 adsorption capacity at low pressures, which will enable more effective CO2 capture and storage...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $469,833 to the University of Florida to develop two-dimensional polymer membranes with precisely engineered gas-selective nanocavities. The goal is to create an energy-efficient, cost-competitive solution for separating gas molecules in industrial applications like carbon dioxide capture and petrochemical purification. The research will focus on designing macrocycle-based membranes that...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to CAL State LA University Auxiliary Services Inc. (UAS) under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The overarching goal of this 2-year project is to develop novel hydrogen storage materials that exceed the capabilities of current storage materials near room temperature and low pressure, and discover strategies to meet DOE's targets for on-board...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $219,996 Project Grant to the University of Florida to develop new fundamental knowledge of membrane structures and performance. The project, which runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026, will utilize synthetic chemistry, polymer science, and advanced characterization techniques to design and study "doubly segmented ionenes," a new type of polymer membrane...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry Project Grant supports research into elucidating exciton transport in hierarchical organic materials through time-resolved electronic and vibrational spectroscopy/microscopy. Led by researchers at Montana State University and the University of Miami, the award will fund investigation of energy transport in light-harvesting superstructures comprised of stacked aromatic dyes covalently bonded together with molecular tethers. By...