Chemistry Department Funding Announcements
The following are newly funded grants received by the Chemistry faculty in 2008. Congratulations!
PI: Dr. David Berkowitz
Co-PI: Dr. Paul Blum, School of Biological Sciences
Funding Agency: Energy Research Grant - Cycle 3
Title: Establishing the Synthetic Potential of Geothermal Dehydrogenases
Project Start Date: October 1, 2008
Co-PI: Dr. Xiao Zeng
PI: Yonfeng Lu, Department of Electrical Engineering
Funding Agency: ONR/MURI
Title: Multi-Laser-Beam Open-Atmosphere Surface Coating Techniques Based on Precursor Excitation, Photodissociation & Controlled Cooling
Project Start Date: August 1, 2008
PI: Dr. David Hage
Co-PIs: Drs. Barry Cheung, Rebecca Lai, Robert Powers; and Dr. Gregory Bashford (Biological Systems Eng'g)
Funding Agency: UNL Strategic Research Cluster Grant
Title: Nebraska Center for Rapid Bioanalysis
Project Start Date: September 1, 2008
PI: Dr. Andrzej Rajca
Co-PI: Dr. Suchada Rajca
Funding Agency: NIH R21
Title: High-Spin Nitroxide Diradical for Biomedical Imaging Applications
Project Start Date: September 15, 2008
PI: Dr. Wonyoung Choe
Funding Agency: Energy Research Grant - Cycle 3
Title: A Route to Store Off-peak Energy: New Hydrogen Storage Materials and Synthetic Strategy to Optimize Hydrogen Adsorption
Project Start Date: October 1, 2008
PI: Dr. James Takacs
Funding Agency: Department of Energy - EPSCoR
Title: Rational Design of Molecular Ferroelectric Materials and Nanostructures
Project Start Date: June 15, 2008
Co-PI: Dr. Xiao Zeng
PI: Li Tan, Department of Engineering Mechanics
Funding Agency: NSF
Title: Self-Organized Nanolayers for Organic Thin-Film Transistors
Project Start Date: September 1, 2008
Co-PI: Dr. Xiao Zeng
PI: Dr. Li Tan, Engineering Mechanics
Funding Agency: Army Research Office (DEPSCoR)
Title: Bi-Functional Pentacene Monolayer for Organic Field-Effect Transistors
Project Start Date: June 1, 2008 t
PI: Dr. Liangcheng Du
Funding Agency: NIH
Title: Biosynthesis of HSAF, an antifungal natural product with a novel mode of action
Project Start Date: June 17, 2008
PI: Dr. James Takacs
Funding Agency: NSF
Title: Ligand Scaffold Optimization for Catalytic Assymmetric Hydroboration
Project Start Date July 1, 2008
Co-PIs: Dr. Stephen DiMagno (Chemistry); Dr. Paul Blum (Biological Sciences); and Dr. Jerry Hudgins (Electrical Engineering)
PI: Dr. Yasar Demirel, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Funding Agency: Nebraska Public Power District
Title: UNL/NPPD Energy Storage Option Analysis
Project Start Date: March 1
PI: Dr. Patrick Dussault
Co-PIs: Drs. R. Cerny, S. DiMagno, D. Hage, G. Harbison, and J. Redepenning
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Defense - DARPA
Title: Detection of Emerging Classes of Explosives
Project Start Date: April 14, 2008
PI: Dr. Barry Cheung
Funding Agency: UNL Layman Award
Title: Hydride Vapor Phase Synthesis of Metallic Hexaboridge Nanomaterials
Project Start Date: June 1, 2008
PI: Dr. Wonyoung Choe
Funding Agency: NSF EPSCoR First Award
Title: Porphrin-based Hydrogen Storage Materials
Project Start Date: May 15, 2008
PI: Dr. Barry Cheung
Funding Agency: NSF EPSCoR First Award
Title: Metallic Boride Nanostructures as Cold Field Emission Materials
Project Start Date: May 15, 2008
PI: Dr. Chin Li Cheung
Funding Agency: Nebraska EPSCoR
Title: CAREER: Metallic Boride Nanostructures as Cold Field Emission Materials
Project Start Date: May 15, 2008
PI: Dr. Wonyoung Choe
Funding Agency: Nebraska EPSCoR
Title: CAREER: Porphyrin-Based Hydrogen Storage Materials
Project Start Date: May 15, 2008
PI: Dr. Robert Powers
Funding Agency: American Heart Association
Title: An NMR Based Systems Biology Approach Toward Preventing Staphylococcal Infective Endocarditis
Project Start Date: January 2009
PI: Dr. Patrick Dussault
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: Directed Reactions of Carbonyl Oxides: A New Approach to Ozonolysis
Project Start Date: February 15, 2008
PI: Dr. Barry Cheung
Funding Agency: University of California Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Title: Low Stress Conformal Boron-10 Coatings of High Aspect Ratio Structures
Project Start Date: September 1, 2007
PI: Dr. Andrzej Rajca
Funding Agency: NSF
Title: Stable High-Spin Polyradicals and Chiral pi-Conjugated Systems
Project Start Date: November 15, 2007
Co-PIs: Dr. Joseph A. Turner (Engineering Mechanics); Dr. Qiming Zhang (subaward); and Dr. Xiao Cheng Zeng (Chemistry)
PI: Dr. Yuris Dzenis, Engineering Mechanics
Funding Agency: NSF
Title: NIRT: NanoManufacturing and Analysis of Active Hierarchical Nanofilamentary Nanostructures
Project Start Date: November 15, 2007
