Project Grant N000142612176

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 $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 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 $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 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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), is supporting Professor Melanie Chiu at Stony Brook University in developing a new method for controlling the molecular weight distribution of polymers using light. The $589,493 award, with a project period from February 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, aims to create a one-pot system that can produce polymers with either low or high dispersity by using light...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) totaling $630,000 aims to develop "synthetic life-like materials and machines" using light-responsive active fluids. The project at Brandeis University will pursue two complementary research aims: Embedding a rigid inclusion in a photo-responsive active nematic liquid crystal to implement hybrid theory-experiment feedback and control the targeted dynamics of 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 $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...