Project Grant FA23861614059

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 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...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $369,059 CAREER grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Auburn University. The grant, titled "CHIRAL PHENOMENA OF EXCITED STATES IN SPINTRONICS", supports a 5-year research project investigating novel magneto-optical effects and nonreciprocal transport properties that emerge from chiral interactions between magnetic, phononic, and photonic excitations in two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures. The...

This $250,000 federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (CFDA 12.300 - Basic and Applied Scientific Research) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) supports research on "NATURALLY ENACAPSULATED HETEROSTRUCTURES FOR SCALABLE 2D NANOMATERIALS." The research aims to advance scientific understanding and technological development of novel 2D nanomaterials with potential applications in areas such as active camouflage, power generation, and optical sensing....

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $438,000.00, was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award supports a research project titled "Rigorous Simulation Framework for Treating Extreme Nonlinear Optical Carrier Sub-Cycle Interactions in Solids: Role of Higher Order Many-Body Correlations and Non-Trivial Material Topologies". The University of Arizona, a public research university recognized as a...

This $590,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports a collaborative research effort between Professors Oliver Monti of the University of Arizona and Yonatan Dubi of Ben Gurion University. The project aims to develop a quantitative understanding of the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, where chiral molecules can preferentially transmit electrons of a specific spin without...

The University of New South Wales received a $223,350 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support basic research activities under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. The grant funds alternative approaches to investigating stability and transition as proposed in the grantee's September 9, 2021 application titled "BASIC RESEARCH FOR AOARD PROPOSAL 21IOA136 'AN...

The Department of the Air Force awarded a $229,700 project grant to Shenkar Engineering Design Art C P B of Israel on September 23, 2021 to develop conductive technical fabrics composed of carbon-nanotube yarns for military systems use. The work will be conducted through September 22, 2024 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). This program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $579,422 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to investigate the manifestations of molecular chirality in energy and charge transport phenomena. The research, led by Professor Abraham Nitzan, aims to develop a fundamental understanding of the interplay between molecular symmetry and dynamics, and its impact on processes like energy/charge transport,...