Project Grant W911NF1810284

This $447,122 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, funds research at Washington University in St. Louis to study the nanoscale structure and catalytic activity of single-atom photocatalysts. Professor Bryce Sadtler and his team will use advanced single-molecule fluorescence microscopy techniques to visualize how the distribution and coordination of individual metal atoms on...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $373,894 to the University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa to develop advanced technology for rapidly analyzing and imaging the microscopic motions and interactions of nanomaterials in electrochemical systems. The project aims to integrate light-scattering imaging with microelectrodes to quantify the local electro(photo)catalytic activities enabled by plasmonic...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $399,779 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to support collaborative research on the structure, dynamics, and catalysis of dilute bimetallic and single atom alloy nanoparticles. The research team, led by David Flaherty of Georgia Tech along with collaborators from the University of Florida and Virginia Tech, will examine...

This $333,850 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to elucidate the structures and dynamics of plasmonic catalysts used for sustainable chemical manufacturing. Principal Investigator Jain from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at Humboldt University and Helmholtz-Zentrum in Berlin will utilize advanced in-situ electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to study the...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $250,338 Project Grant to the Washington University to develop highly selective, active, and stable metal nanoparticle catalysts with ultra-thin porous ceramic shells. Under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program, the University will create a novel nanostructured size-selective catalyst with a nanoscale porous ceramic overlayer on each metal nanoparticle surface. The...

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,...

Polykala Technologies, LLC received a $206,500 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of "NANOCATALYSTS AND SINGLE-ATOM CATALYSTS DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING ASSISTED BY INEXPENSIVE CUSTOM DESIGNED LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA." The work will be performed in San Antonio, TX through June 26, 2023. The award is funded through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $486,160 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct research on designing electrochemical photoreactors from single and ensemble multijunction silicon particles. The key objectives are to: Understand the chemical effects of liquid solutions on individual nanowire photovoltaic and photocatalyst properties, Investigate the electrochemical and photonic interactions of...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $360,000 Project Grant to the University of Rochester to develop a combined nanoscale thermometry and chemical reaction monitoring technique. The goal is to study the thermal contributions to plasmon-enhanced photocatalysis, where the collective oscillation of free electrons drives chemical reactions on metal nanostructure surfaces. The project will employ the temperature-dependent luminescence of upconverting nanoparticles...