Project Grant N629091812145

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to research and develop switchable persistent spin helix devices. The goal is to overcome key challenges in spintronic devices, which use electron spin rather than charge to carry information, by leveraging materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and electric-field tunable persistent...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to develop scalable nanomanufacturing methods for lead-free perovskite-analogue nanocrystals. The $392,931 project, awarded to North Carolina State University, aims to address critical knowledge gaps in the high-throughput production of copper-based perovskite-analogue nanocrystals using reconfigurable and modular continuous flow reactors. The research...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) project grant award provides $650,000 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to develop energy-efficient optical brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computing devices. The project aims to establish a 3D nanofabrication platform that combines DNA-programmable assembly and conventional lithographic methods to create novel optical metamaterials and integrate them into neuromorphic...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $300,000 EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant to the University of Pittsburgh. The objective of this 2-year project is to develop new methods that leverage the advantages of light in the chemical synthesis of nanomaterials. Specifically, the project aims to use catalytic, photoredox-mediated nanoparticle synthesis to elucidate how the nucleation of bimetallic nanoparticles impacts their size,...

North Carolina State University was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct collaborative research on organized nanochannel materials from biomolecular magnetic organic frameworks. Over a three-year period from September 2023 through August 2026, NC State will leverage multi-scale modeling, machine learning, and experimental verification to develop technology-specific rules for designing and...

This $500,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports fundamental research at Clark University to develop scalable manufacturing methods for organic semiconducting nanoparticles with applications in energy storage. Principal Investigator will investigate the interplay of aerosol formation and vapor phase chemistry to control synthetic pathways for producing highly conductive nanoparticles through aerosol-based synthesis. The research aims to achieve mechanistic understanding of...

This $520,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research into photon avalanching processes in lanthanide-based nanomaterials being conducted by Professor P. James Schuck of Columbia University from June 2022 through May 2025. The research aims to fundamentally understand and develop new avalanching nanoparticles through experimental characterization, theoretical modeling, precision synthesis, and hierarchical...

This $274,786 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of a cutting-edge scanning magnetometer microscope by Femtosenselabs, LLC. This new microscope technology will enable high-resolution imaging of novel magnetic materials with unprecedented sensitivity at the nanoscale, supporting the advancement of spintronics and the development of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of $275,000 awarded to Lumoniq Inc. supports research and development of a nanoscale hybrid optical interconnect platform to revolutionize internal computer chip connections. The project aims to commercialize a new approach called Coupled Hybrid Plasmonics (CHP) that uses the interaction of light and metals to enable high-bandwidth, low-power,...