Project Grant FA23862314056

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of Texas at Dallas a $450,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop smart photochromic electronic devices. Professor Michael C. Biewer and students will synthesize novel light-activated organic semiconducting materials incorporating a bicyclic aziridine photochromic unit. They will attach this unit as a pendant group to donor-acceptor-donor small molecules based on...

This Project Grant award of $566,702 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division funds research at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to design, synthesize, and assemble furan-based macrocycles and helical polymers. The project aims to understand how the precise molecular structure, chirality, sequence control, dynamics, and stability of these novel optoelectronic macromolecules influence their self-assembly into supramolecular structures. The...

This $550,000 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development of novel synthetic approaches for manufacturing optical polymers at the University of Arizona from June 2022 to May 2025. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, principal investigators Jeffrey Pyun and Robert Norwood will investigate a new step-growth polymerization process using sulfenyl chlorides to electrophilically add to olefinic monomers. Their research aims to address the high...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry award provides $760,000 over 4 years to support an interdisciplinary research project led by Professors Colin Nuckolls and Xavier Roy of Columbia University. The project aims to explore the development of a new class of macromolecular materials that combine electronic and chiral properties, with the goal of understanding how chirality can be used to control spin-selective electron transport. This research will integrate advanced design...

This $263,799 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research by Professor Graham Collier of Kennesaw State University to develop a new approach for synthesizing conjugated monomers that can be used to produce a diverse class of semiconducting, recyclable polymers. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Synthesizing dihalogenated...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry aims to develop novel polymeric materials based on segmented polar-polyolefin copolymers with complex architectures. Professors Eva Harth at the University of Houston and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University are collaborating on this 3-year effort, which seeks to advance energy storage materials and plastic upcycling capabilities. The key products and services to be delivered...

This $495,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to develop electrochemical and photochemical methods for precision synthesis of conjugated polymers. Led by Nathan Romero, the three-year project beginning July 2023 aims to achieve length- and sequence-controlled polymerization of conjugated polymers using a combination of electrochemical and...

This $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research will fund research into directing the self-assembly of liquid crystalline block co-oligomers using combined optical and magnetic fields. The goal is to develop an understanding of how the properties of these materials relate to their structure and to create desired structures that achieve targeted properties. The work will involve fundamental studies of optically-driven structural transitions in...

This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports Professor Frieder Jäkle of Rutgers University-Newark in developing novel boron-containing polymers and supramolecular materials. The research aims to exploit the reversible electron-deficient properties of boron compounds to create "smart" polymeric materials with interesting photophysical, electronic, and stimuli-responsive characteristics. This includes...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $315,593 to Yale University and Pennsylvania State University to collaboratively advance the characterization of chiral molecules and materials using metasurface-enabled broadband circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and imaging. The project focuses on designing, fabricating, and evaluating metasurfaces to significantly simplify...