Project Grant FA23861514099

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...

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...

The National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program has awarded a $579,422 project grant to Prof. Abraham Nitzan of the University of Pennsylvania. The grant supports research investigating the manifestations of molecular chirality in molecular transport phenomena. Specifically, the project aims to: (a) Establish the connection between the chirality of molecular equilibrium structures and their electronic and nuclear dynamics. (b) Develop mathematical measures of...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Under a $582,707 Project Grant awarded September 1, 2025, through the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Division of Chemistry, Professor David Patterson at the University of California, Santa Barbara is developing analytical tools capable of identifying the exact structure of single, trapped molecules, including their chirality (handedness). The research addresses a critical gap in existing analytical...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling $546,937, will support research into deciphering molecule-carbon nanotube interactions for environmental remediation reactions under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Yale University, located in New Haven, CT, is the primary awardee and will investigate fluorescence decay lifetimes and time-resolved infrared absorption of cobalt phthalocyanine catalysts on carbon nanotube supports. Sum frequency...

This $590,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a study by Professors Oliver Monti of the University of Arizona and Yonatan Dubi of Ben Gurion University on the emergence of spin polarization at chiral interfaces. The researchers will utilize sophisticated electron spectroscopies and scattering theory to characterize the transmission of electrons passing through layers of chiral molecules, with the goal...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry provides $249,999 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AGGREGATION MECHANISMS IN CARBON NANOMATERIALS BASED ON PI-CONJUGATED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS" being conducted at Texas Tech University from September 2021 through August 2024. The research aims to investigate aggregation mechanisms in carbon nanomaterials based on pi-conjugated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. This work will be...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $470,150 to Professor Linda Shimizu of the University of South Carolina from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research to precisely engineer self-assembling nanotube structures from 3 to 150 monomers of bis-urea macrocycles for applications in photochemistry, molecular electronics, and photodynamic therapy. Specific...

This $1.5 million National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering Project Grant supports the "PIRE JUNCTION: Japan-US Network for Clean Energy Technologies Involving Oriented Nanotubes" program from September 2022 through August 2025. The goal is to build international research collaborations between U.S. and Japanese researchers investigating properties and performance of large-scale materials made from oriented carbon nanotubes. William Marsh Rice...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049), supports experimental research on the quantum theory of lattice heat transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The $425,206 award to the University of Texas at Austin aims to advance multiprobe measurement techniques to detect the quantized phonon conductance predicted for SWCNTs at temperatures up to 10 K. If successful, this research is...