Project Grant FA23861414047

This $495,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Rice University to investigate and control the properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes functionalized with guanine-linked DNA. Principal Investigator Robert Weisman and his team will conduct experiments and computations to further explore the nature and potential applications of these nanotube-DNA hybrid structures. Specifically, the work will deepen...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $125,000 Project Grant to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University to support research titled "AOARD: NOVEL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR THE PRINTED NANOMATERIAL-BASED CHEMICAL/BIOCHEMICAL SENSORS" from December 16, 2022 through December 15, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority through...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports Professor Abraham Nitzan of the University of Pennsylvania in investigating the manifestations of molecular chirality in transport phenomena. The $579,422 award, spanning May 2025 to April 2028, aims to develop a fundamental understanding of how the symmetry properties of molecular structures impact energy, charge, and mass transport processes in molecular...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $150,000.00 in funding to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the performance period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The grant supports "BASIC RESEARCH FOR AOARD PROPOSAL 24IOA043 'QUANTUM GEOMETRY AND NONLINEAR HALL EFFECTS IN TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS'." This funding will enable...

This federal Project Grant award of $133,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports research on electronic coupling in superlattices of HgTe quantum dots at the University of Chicago. The research will focus on the organization, transport, and spectroscopy of these quantum dot superlattices, with the aim of advancing scientific understanding and potential naval applications. The award period runs from January 1,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $100,000.00, was granted by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command under the Department of Defense Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). The award supports research on the mechanical response of axially bi-continuous graphene-metal composites under high loading conditions. The research will be conducted by Arizona State University, doing business as Orspa, at their...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $590,000 in funding to the University of Arizona and Ben Gurion University for a project titled "Understanding the Emergence of Spin Polarization at Chiral Interfaces." The award, effective May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2028, supports research to characterize the transmission of electrons through layers of chiral molecules and quantify the...

This $173,216.46 Cooperative Agreement award was made by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). Over the next 3 years, the participant, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated (ORAU), will research the device performance of a detector based on colloidal quantum dots on graphene by modeling the carrier transport across the device. The goal is to develop a low-cost,...

This Project Grant award for $438,000 from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports the development of a rigorous simulation framework for studying extreme nonlinear optical carrier sub-cycle interactions in solids. The research aims to investigate the role of higher-order many-body correlations and non-trivial material topologies in these complex optical phenomena. The award was made on January 15, 2025 with a period of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research project grant awarded to the University of Utah will support research into the excitonic electroabsorption effects in macroscopically aligned carbon nanotubes. The $250,657 award, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, will fund the development of a self-assembly system to fabricate macroscopic films of aligned semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The research will then explore the optical spectroscopy evidence of...