Project Grant FA95502310538

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $480,000 to the University of California, San Diego from August 2022 through July 2025 to support research into controlling magnetic excitation pathways at the molecular level via design of anisotropic dipolar spin arrays. Principal Investigator Jeffrey D. Rinehart and his team will conduct research combining inorganic, organic, theoretical and computational chemistry toward designing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $285,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to explore how polymers can be designed to leverage electron spin properties using light. The project aims to develop new macromolecular architectures that enable control over exciton dynamics and spin interactions in radical-containing polymers. The research will focus on...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program provides $375,000 in funding to Purdue University to investigate entangled states in organic molecules and explore methods for generating high-fidelity quantum states of light. The research aims to enhance photon collection efficiency and zero-phonon line in organic molecules integrated into nanophotonic cavities and waveguides. Additionally, the project will focus on bringing...

This $275,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pennsylvania to control nanoscale self-assembly via binding-induced polarization. Over the three-year period from August 2022 to July 2025, researchers Robert Hickey of Penn State University and Robert Riggleman of the University of Pennsylvania will use a combination of experimentation, theory, and...

This $444,804 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to develop quantum logic control techniques for polar molecular ions. The overarching goal is to break open a new frontier in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics by providing means for full quantum control of molecular ions. Key research objectives include: Developing laser-free quantum logic control methods for polar molecular ions using externally...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Northwestern University $603,682 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to develop photogenerated multi-spin systems as qubits for quantum information science applications. Professor Michael Wasielewski of Northwestern University's Department of Chemistry and his research group will work to control charge and spin transport through organic molecules, tailoring their quantum properties using...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $446,318 to support research on chiral interactions in superconducting-magnetic junctions. The goal is to improve interconnects between magnetic bits by exploring how chiral molecules, ferromagnets, and superconductors can be combined to manipulate and control spin transport. Key activities include investigating phase coherence using Aharonov-Bohm...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $124,802 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma (OU) to study the growth of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals at the single-particle level. This research aims to advance the development of low-cost single photon emitters (SPEs) necessary for building future quantum photonic networks that enable secure quantum communications. Under this 2-year grant, starting September 1, 2023, Professor Yitong Dong and his...

This NSF Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $300,000 to Brown University will support a research infrastructure improvement project focused on developing an experimental method to directly probe the configuration of electron spins in 2D materials like multilayer graphene. The key objectives are to: 1) establish a user program located in Rhode Island to provide research and intern opportunities for students, thereby training the state's quantum workforce, and 2)...