Project Grant DESC0025559

This $297,402 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research project between professors at Boston University and Northeastern University. The research aims to investigate charge and energy transfer between metal nanostructures and semiconductor nanocrystals through single particle spectroscopy. Specifically, the project will analyze the scattering spectra of individual hybrid...

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...

This three-year, $308,978 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research between Professor José Gascón of the University of Connecticut and Professor Warren F. Beck of Michigan State University. The researchers will investigate the photophysical mechanisms cyanobacteria employ to protect themselves from excessive sunlight exposure. Specifically, they will determine how a ketocarotenoid bound to the Orange Carotenoid Protein serves as a light intensity and color sensor....

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...

This $426,609 National Science Foundation project grant will support research at Western Michigan University to develop highly luminescent gold nanoclusters for photonic applications. Led by Dr. Ramakrishna Guda, the research team will synthesize gold clusters with increased rigidity and functionalize cluster surfaces with organic chromophores to achieve efficient energy transfer and amplify photoluminescence. Ultrafast spectroscopy techniques will be used to study excited state relaxation...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program Project Grant award of $411,535 to the Trustees of Boston University will support collaborative research on interfacial excitation transfer in hybrid metal/chalcopyrite plasmonic nanostructures. Professors from Boston University and Northeastern University will investigate charge and energy transfer between metal nanostructures and semiconductor nanocrystals through single particle spectroscopy. The...

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 $545,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, specifically the Division of Chemistry, will fund research into ultrafast dynamics occurring in the ground states of transition metal complexes being conducted by Professor Clifford Kubiak of the University of California, San Diego from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research aims to develop new assemblies of metal complexes that undergo fast electron transfer reactions through...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $300,000 EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant to the University of Pittsburgh. The objective of this 2-year project is to develop new methods that leverage the advantages of light in the chemical synthesis of nanomaterials. Specifically, the project aims to use catalytic, photoredox-mediated nanoparticle synthesis to elucidate how the nucleation of bimetallic nanoparticles impacts their size,...