Project Grant FA23861814008

Through a Project Grant award of $488,035 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Purdue University is investigating ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics in metal chalcogenide nanoclusters and their assembled superatomic materials. The principal investigator, Hanzhe Liu, is using ultrashort extreme ultraviolet light pulses to observe real-time electronic and atomic motions within these superatomic solids. This technique...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to develop scalable nanomanufacturing methods for lead-free perovskite-analogue nanocrystals. The $392,931 project, awarded to North Carolina State University, aims to address critical knowledge gaps in the high-throughput production of copper-based perovskite-analogue nanocrystals using reconfigurable and modular continuous flow reactors. The research...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $550,000 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry on June 1, 2024, supports research by Professor Dmitri Talapin of the University of Chicago on the development of affordable III-V semiconductor quantum dots. The goal is to create more cost-effective materials for high-performance solar cells, LEDs, and lasers, which currently rely on expensive III-V semiconductor manufacturing processes. The research program seeks...

This $250,000 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to develop a high-throughput combinatorial reactive printing technique to accelerate the discovery and understanding of new thermally-stable metal chalcogenide semiconductors. The principal investigator at Texas Tech University will use this reactive printing approach to rapidly synthesize and screen a compositional gradient of these...

Professor Yuhuang Wang of the University of Maryland College Park will use a $488,482 National Science Foundation project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to control the synthesis and placement of organic color centers on single-walled carbon nanotubes. Over three years, Professor Wang and his team will covalently attach small functional groups to carbon nanotubes to create model defect color centers. They will study how these organic color centers can be generated,...

This $413,975 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports Professor Susan M. Kauzlarich of the University of California, Davis in advancing the chemistry of germanium semiconductor nanocrystals. Through this 3-year project, the research team will utilize microwave heating to synthesize doped and alloyed germanium nanoparticles with controlled size, shape, and surface properties. The goal is to...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research at Brigham Young University to optimize the synthesis and composition of copper-based nanoparticle catalysts for converting carbon dioxide to methanol. The $467,047 award aims to (i) increase the catalytic activity of the copper-based nanoparticles by optimizing their interface and active sites, (ii) improve the stability of the...

Federal Grant Award Summary Under this Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry within the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of Florida's Zeng Research Group will develop generalizable methodologies for the precision synthesis of atomically precise II-VI semiconductor nanoclusters through cation exchange reactions. The three-year project, funded at $482,663 and running from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028,...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research by Prof. Thomas Kempa and his group at Johns Hopkins University to develop new quantum material platforms based on two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with 2D semiconductor materials. The $307,752 award will fund efforts to chemically design 2D MOF structures and assemble them into van der Waals heterostructures with...

This $447,122 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, funds research at Washington University in St. Louis to study the nanoscale structure and catalytic activity of single-atom photocatalysts. Professor Bryce Sadtler and his team will use advanced single-molecule fluorescence microscopy techniques to visualize how the distribution and coordination of individual metal atoms on...