Project Grant FA86552517079

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award, totaling $560,000, will support research at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to develop new methods for investigating nanoscale thermal transport phenomena. The research will combine ultrafast optical measurement techniques with nanoscale spatial resolution to probe energy carriers, such as electrons and phonons, in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium regimes. The goal is to...

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 $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 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $390,000 over three years to support theoretical research on electron transport and energy relaxation in topological and superconducting materials. The key research aims include: Investigating the topological surface and bulk effects in the excitonic insulator phase of Weyl semimetals. Studying nonreciprocal electron transport in...

This $480,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of bottom-up synthesis, purification, and investigation of one-dimensional graphene nanoribbon-based quantum materials at the University of California, Berkeley from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. Professor Felix Fischer and his students will rationally design, manufacture, and characterize exotic quantum phenomena emerging from electron-electron interactions in graphene nanoribbons. The synthetic products are...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to study scattering selection rules of chiral phonons and thermal transport. The three-year project, beginning October 1, 2022 and ending September 30, 2025, will use inelastic x-ray scattering from synchrotrons to measure vibrations in solids induced by heat, known as phonons, including circular vibrations. The...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Southern California a $460,000 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year project will investigate single photon emission from diamond using high voltage nanosecond pulse discharge. Researchers will study the charge state conversion, dynamics, and single photon emission properties of diamond when exposed to high voltage pulses over 5kV...

Through a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Purdue University is enhancing the FOURPHONON open-source computational package to enable accurate and affordable prediction of thermal conductivity in materials. This award under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of advanced computational methods and machine learning models to accelerate the calculation of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $319,745 to Auburn University to investigate the electron, magnon, and phonon properties of a new class of ultra-thin, quasi-two-dimensional antiferromagnetic semiconductor materials. The research aims to explore the potential for controlling the properties of these materials to enable novel device functionalities. Key focus areas include characterizing the materials'...

This $1,149,948 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), supports research and development to improve the performance of carbon nanotube (CNT) technologies for radio frequency (RF) electronics applications. The key objectives are to: 1) increase the yield of semiconducting CNTs, 2) develop a scalable CNT dielectric coating, 3) fabricate high-performance CNT...