Project Grant FA86552417031

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a $598,196 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop collaborative human-robot systems for organic synthesis procedures in chemical research and development laboratories. The three-year award beginning September 15, 2022 will support research integrating robotics, chemistry, and human-computer interaction to classify, model, and evaluate the efficacy of collaborative...

This $309,414 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, supports research at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) to develop a new class of photocatalysts that can transform cheap, unreactive raw materials into value-added chemicals. The goal is to control the photochemical process and reaction selectivity by modulating the energy of the light...

This $1.22 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research between the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and New Iridium, Inc. to develop and evaluate scenarios for collaborative human-robot teams in organic synthesis procedures. Over a four-year period ending in August 2026, the project aims to classify, model, and assess the efficacy of robotic assistance in various...

This $650,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry supports the research of Dr. Raphael Florentino Ribeiro of Emory University. The award, effective December 1, 2023 through November 30, 2028, aims to develop new theoretical approaches and computational methods for investigating chemical phenomena in microenvironments that confine light and interact strongly with matter. The research will computationally explore strategies to achieve...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $308,887 to Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. The award supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program that trains 10 students per summer over 3 years (2024-2026) in collaborative research projects spanning all fields of chemistry. The program aims to develop more robust undergraduate research programs at...

The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $600,000 project grant titled "CAS: Computation-Assisted Discovery of Enantioselective Polymerization Catalysts for Degradable Polyesters" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research teams at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop new chemistry for the synthesis and recycling of stereocomplex poly(lactic) acids...

This $199,921 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop stable and periodic arrays of molecular-scale liquid-liquid interfaces within metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The goal is to harness these nanoconfined liquid-liquid interfaces to enable select chemical reactions and provide insights into the distribution of polar and nonpolar molecules in...

Under a $293,308 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Purdue University is conducting research to develop new chiral catalysts for enantioselective photoredox-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. The project aims to design efficient photochemical reactions to synthesize specific enantiomers of chiral organic molecules, which have important applications in...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Princeton University $499,999 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the period April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2026. Under this Project Grant, Princeton University will study selective oxidation reactions central to pharmaceutical, fine chemical, and other chemical industry processes. Specifically, the university will design advanced catalysts with high reactivity, selectivity, and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to study highly electron-deficient carbon, boron and silicon compounds. The goal of this 3-year research project, which falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), is to isolate and characterize compounds containing main group elements with as few as 4 or 5 valence electrons. This builds on prior work demonstrating that...