Project Grant N000142612149

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will establish a framework to advance the predictable and controlled self-assembly of multicomponent plastic semiconducting materials. The $1,000,000 award to North Carolina State University aims to expand polymer physics concepts and develop new descriptors to better understand and categorize the complex molecular structures and assembly processes of these advanced...

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...

The University of Florida received a three-year $495,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to develop new classes of synthetic supramolecular polymers. Professor Ronald Castellano and his students will synthesize novel monomeric building blocks that are cyclic and chiral in nature. Through structure-property investigations, they aim to control the thermodynamics, mechanism, and optoelectronic properties of the resulting supramolecular...

This $471,407 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to develop functionalized nanoparticles that phase separate on liquid droplet interfaces, enabling control over three-dimensional droplet arrangements and the formation of macroscopic structures with unique properties. Specifically, the researchers will synthesize ligand-functionalized nanoparticles for generating nanoparticle surfactant assemblies and characterize the...

This $660,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research at Cornell University into block copolymer-based multicomponent self-assembly of porous nanostructures from non-equilibrium processes. Specifically, the grantee will study the formation of porous nanostructures using block copolymers and investigate asymmetric ultrafiltration membranes from chemically distinct block copolymers exposed to non-solvent-induced phase...

This three-year, $491,708 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of hybrid bonding polymers at Northwestern University. Researchers will integrate traditional covalent polymers with supramolecular polymers using small molecules as co-crystallized domains. This is intended to generate functional structures combining the mechanical benefits of polymer backbones and crystalline lattices at sites connected by...

This $465,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Southern California to advance sustainable methods for producing conjugated polymers. Led by Professor Barry C. Thompson, the research aims to enhance the sustainability of direct arylation polymerization, a controlled and atom-efficient process for synthesizing semiconducting organic polymers with applications in optoelectronics. The project will investigate mechanistic features of the catalytic...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $250,000 to support the synthesis of innovative polymeric materials using biologically inspired nanoparticles called "bundlemers". Professors Christopher J. Kloxin and Darrin J. Pochan at the University of Delaware will leverage the unique features of bundlemers to precisely position molecular species and enable the creation of new complex...