The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $1,065,396 Project Grant to Catalyst Connection on April 8, 2021 under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA) program. The EAA program provides technical and planning assistance to regions experiencing adverse economic changes. Under this award, Catalyst Connection will support the Maker 2 Manufacturing Project in southwest Pennsylvania through two subawards totaling $1,065,396. Catalyst Connection and subrecipients...
Under a $529,170 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049), Professor Robert Paton and his research team at Colorado State University (CSU) will develop new computational workflows to accelerate the discovery and optimization of highly selective catalysts. The project aims to advance mechanistic understanding and establish new quantitative descriptors for three key catalyst and ligand classes - hydrogen-bond donors,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $400,000 to Arizona State University to develop heteratom dimer and cluster catalysts for chemical transformations from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. Professor Jingyue Liu will research precision-designed dual atom catalysts containing pairs of different metal atoms, such as palladium-tin and platinum-copper, localized on isolated metal oxide...
This $125,151 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267) will fund Catalyst Domestic Violence Services, a non-profit organization in Chico, California, to provide a range of services to address homelessness and support domestic violence survivors. The award will enable Catalyst Domestic Violence Services to deliver critical housing and support services, including emergency shelter, counseling, court...
This $525,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at Boston College on metalloradical catalysis for selective radical reactions from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. Professor Peter Zhang and his team will develop new catalytic systems using earth-abundant transition metals like cobalt to mediate one-electron radical reactions as a more sustainable alternative to...
This $770,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports fundamental research on singly dispersed metal-atom catalysts conducted by researchers at the University of Central Florida, University of California Riverside, and Brewton Parker College. The overarching goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the factors controlling the activity and selectivity of these catalysts for hydrogen production from methanol...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $251,294 to Tulane University to conduct collaborative research on improving the use of olefin metathesis catalysts. The key objectives are to better understand how to control the creation of active catalytic sites through reductive chemistry, which could lead to more effective and reusable catalysts for converting plastic waste or renewable materials into valuable products. The research...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,569 EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) Project Grant to the University of Rochester to develop an approach that leverages large language models and artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of earth-abundant, active, and selective catalysts for the reverse water-gas shift reaction. The project aims to demonstrate that language-based representations can be universally applied to materials discovery processes expressed...
This $312,307 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project between the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and the University of California-Davis. The researchers will study and develop new methodology to improve the efficiency and functionality of rhodium-based catalysts for organic transformations. The project aims to uncover new concepts in catalyst control by investigating remote...
This three-year, $219,632 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of new base-free ruthenium-catalyzed hydrogen transfer reactions. Principal Investigator Steven Kalman of Stockton University is working to design catalysts that can add hydrogen to organic compounds under milder conditions without the need for specialized equipment or hydrogen gas storage. The goal is to simplify and...