SUMMER 2019
DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY CHE NEWSLETTER
FINE TUNING SEMICONDUCTOR INSIDE NANOCRYSTALS
Changing the size and 2 Update from the Division Director shape of semiconducting nanocrystals can alter their properties, but many of 4 Chemistry Staffing News and Recruiting the processes for nanocrystal fine-tuning were developed 6 Chemistry Division Director Search for heavy metal containing 6 Recruiting Rotators: Would you like to semiconductors. Looking join the NSF team as a rotator? to fine-tune heavy metal- free nanocrystals, Anatoly 6 Proposal & Award Policies & Procedure Frenkel’s group at Stony Changes Brook University developed a new method to control 6 Funding Opportunities the shape and length of ZnSe nanocrystals. a. Division of Chemistry’s updated Disciplinary Research Programs This method starts by forming magic size clusters (MSCs) of ZnSe. On Solicitation (CHE-DRP) their own, these MSCs can form nanowires hundreds of nanometers b. Centers for Chemical Innovation long. However, the addition of [Zn₄(SPh)₁₀](Me4N)₂ to the reaction, (CCI) Solicitation otherwise referred to as Zn₄, truncates the nanowire growth. As c. Growing Convergence Research the concentration of Zn₄ in the reaction increases, the length of the (GCR) Solicitation nanowires decreases, forming nanorods or even nanocrystals. By raising the reaction temperature, the diameter of the nanorods and nanocrystals d. Research Experiences for increases as well, leading to a change in their absorption and emission Undergraduates (REU) Sites and properties. Finally, adding an analogous Cu₄ compound to the reaction Supplements Solicitation leads to the formation of Cu-doped ZnSe nanorods.
8 ChemMatCARS Site Visit in 2019 This method ultimately yields control over the length, diameter and Cu doping of ZnSe nanorods, allowing researchers to explore new 8 Chemistry Outreach in 2019 electronic properties. This work is funded in part by CHE-1719534 and was recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society 9 2019 Chemical Early Career Workshop (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b05941).
9 CHE/DMS Innovation Lab: Learning the Power of Data in Chemistry CHE COMMUNICATION LISTSERV SIGN-UP 10 Chemistry Highlights Stay informed with the latest news and topics of interest from the NSF 11 New 2019 CHE CAREER Awardees Division of Chemistry: sign up for our mailing list by sending an email message with the subject line, ‘Subscribe to CHE’, to: [email protected]. Please share this information with your colleagues! 19 Chemistry Contact List IN THIS ISSUE UPDATE FROM THE DIVISION DIRECTOR
Dear Colleagues,
Before I start the Newsletter, I would first like to recognize the contributions of our long-time friend and colleague, Dr. Tyrone D. Mitchell. Ty passed away on June 2, 2019. During his career at NSF, Ty was a creative thinker, strong supporter of chemical sciences, fierce advocate for broadening participation – especially through the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), and outstanding mentor to generations of students, investigators, and even NSF staff. Ty is fondly remembered for his zest for living – bowling, Nats baseball, jazz, and all things New Orleans (but especially gumbo, and the beignets and chicory coffee that he often shared with the Division). His greatest love was clearly his family - he was so very proud of each of them! We will miss him greatly. The past year in CHE has been eventful and filled with change, including new partnerships, initiatives and solicitations. CHE has been actively engaged in NSF Big Ideas initiatives, with increasing activities in Quantum Leap (QL), Understanding the Rules of Life (URoL), Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR), Mid-scale Research Infrastructure (Midscale), Growing Convergence Research, and NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES), etc. These interdisciplinary areas of research have brought new opportunities to our investigators, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates while strengthening our core and promote partnership with other disciplines, agencies and industries. If you are not already familiar with these Big Ideas, I strongly urge you to examine the NSF website: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/. If you are looking for additional avenues of support, especially for collaborative or high-risk, high-reward projects, we strongly encourage submissions to each of these topics in addition to the CHE Disciplinary Research Programs. In December 2018-January 2019, NSF experienced a 35-day lapse in appropriations, putting a pause on day-to- day operations. The chemistry community’s response to this shortened review cycle has been nothing short of amazing. Many thanks for your patience as we transitioned back to normal operations, rescheduled panels, made additional review requests, and work to clear-up the back logs. I also want to recognize the amazing dedication of the CHE staff – who is processing the 1300 proposals submitted to our disciplinary research programs this past cycle. While we are currently awaiting the final approval on our appropriations, information about the status of NSF and Divisional budgets can be found online at www.nsf.gov/about/budget. This site also included the Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Request to Congress; please have a look! CHE anticipates spending more than 80% of our budget on our disciplinary research, or ‘core’, programs in FY 2019. These proposals were submitted as part of our new Disciplinary Research Program solicitation. For FY 2020, the solicitation has been slightly revised to clarify the submission requirements (see NSF 19-577, https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf19577), specifically: 1) For each current award or pending proposal listed, PIs must include one or more sentences addressing the relationship of the present proposal to their currently funded projects or pending proposals and explain how the work proposed under this solicitation is distinct. A separate current and pending support pdf file must be uploaded for each individual designated as senior personnel; 2) For all proposals submitted under this solicitation, PIs are required to upload a statement regarding revisions under Single Copy Documents. For renewal or new proposals that have not been considered previously by the NSF, a statement such as “This proposal has not been considered previously by the NSF” is sufficient; and 3) There is a limitation in the number of proposals submitted through this solicitation.A proposer may only submit one proposal as a PI, co-PI, or Senior Personnel per fiscal year.
2 In addition to our core research programs, CHE strives to increase our government, academic, and industrial partnerships. Internally, sustainable approaches to chemistry and chemical processes continues to be a common, high priority scientific challenge. This means an emphasis on improving the sustainability of resources while maintaining, or improving, current products and creating technologically-advanced, economically competitive, environmentally-benign and useful materials. To meet these aims, CHE has joined forces with the Directorates for Engineering (ENG) and Geosciences (GEO) to form the new Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) metaprogram, information can be found online at https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505673. We are also working to increase international collaborations. For nearly a decade, we have encouraged supplemental funding for international collaborations through our Dear Colleague Letters (e.g., NSF 19-037). This method allows collaboration with almost all other countries. The division continues the tradition of providing mentorship and training opportunity to our junior investigators. I particularly enjoyed the 2019 Chemistry Early Career Investigator Workshop, held in late May in Alexandria, VA. Our deepest appreciation goes to the organizers for this year’s event: Paula Diaconescu, UCLA and Dominik Konkolewicz, Miami University who worked with our own Terek Sammmakia and Ken Moloy to host almost 90 new faculty members from across the U.S. These new faculty learned about grant writing, crafted research ideas, participated in mock panels, and networked extensively with peers, faculty mentors and staff from NSF and other federal agencies. It was an exhausting but exhilarating two-days and when we catch our breath, we will start planning again for next year. Notably, this Newsletter highlights CHE’s new CAREER awardees (congratulations!), several of whom have been attendees at previous Early Career Workshops. Finally, continuing our tradition of outreach to the chemistry community, several of the Division staff will again attend the American Chemical Society’s National Meeting in San Diego, CA, held on August 25-29, 2019. This year we are partnering with the Department of Energy (DOE), the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division (CSGB), to host a booth at the Exposition on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Please stop by! We will be trying something a bit new this year – adding special “seminars” on the Big Ideas and other science drivers both from program staff and from leaders in the community. As always, we welcome questions on all our programs so I hope you can challenge us with your research needs and give us feedback on how we can better assist our community. Later this fall, we also participate in the annual meeting for the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCCHE), held on November 18-21, 2019 at St. Louis and the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), held on October 31-November 2, 2019, in Honolulu, Hawai’i. More details about CHE activities are in the pages to follow.
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Carol A. Bessel Acting Division Director NSF Division of Chemistry
3 4 ARTICLECHEMISTRY TITLE STAFFING NEWS AND RECRUITING AUTHOR CONGRATULATIONS TO CHE’SNEWEST PERMANENTSTAFF MEMBERS! DR. TYRONED. MITCHELL. WE ARESAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO ALONG-TIME COLLEAGUE ANDADEARFRIEND, CHEMISTRY STAFFING NEWS ANDRECRUITING WELCOME TO OURNEWROTATING STAFF MEMBERS! underrepresented friendly groups andhis smiles. inclusiveness. He always will remembered be concern for his for junior researchers, in those particular from metal ions with potential nanotechnology applications. ionsmetal with potential nanotechnology ofnucleicsupramolecular chemistry acidsandtransition Mellon University. Her research interests on focus Processes Program. (CLP) He joins aProgram us as Director in the Chemical Life (REU) Programs. (REU) & Computational Methods andthe Experiences Research (CTMC) for Undergraduates theoretical chemistry. He joins aProgram us as Director in the Chemical Theory, Models, in computationalspecializes spectroscopy, heavy-element modeling compounds, and Dr. Walter Ermler isaProfessor at the University ofTexas at San Antonio. Dr. Ermler Dr. Walter Ermler Ty isacelebrated chemist andmentor. He was astrong advocate and for diversity Education the to manage Graduate Fellowship Research Program (GRFP). Programs. HeChemical (ECS) Sciences later to moved the Division ofGraduate and later the Experiences Research for Undergraduates andEnvironmental (REU) director andMacromolecular in aprogram the as Organic He Chemistry Program, served andlaterSilicones Corning Incorporated, NSF’s hejoined Division ofChemistry in 2000. Institute in Troy, New York. After alongcelebrated and careerGeneral at Electric Dr. infrom Ph.D. polymer chemistry his Rensselaer Mitchell received degree Polytechnic faculty member at Carnegie member at Carnegie faculty Previously Dr. Achim was a Processes Program. (CLP) in theLead Chemistry ofLife Program Director andTeam a permanent position as Achim who has accepted Welcome to Dr. Catalina Dr. Catalina Achim biomolecular halogen bonds. bonds. halogen biomolecular structures and functions, and onfocuses nucleic acid State University. His research Department at Colorado & Molecular Biology in the Biochemistry Dr. P. Shing Ho isaProfessor Dr. P. Shing Ho
Chemical Measurement andImaging Programs. (CMI) Director in theProcesses Chemistryandthe ofLife (CLP) for their andquantification. imaging joins He as a us Program ANNOUNCEMENTS accepted apermanentaccepted Ms. Ivey Renee has also Ms. Renee Ivey small molecules within cells, to allow within to allow cells, small molecules the presence ofactive proteins and nanoparticle systems that report on and fluorescence-based molecular University. His research targets Chemistry at Louisiana State Womack Alumni Professor of Dr. McCarley Robin isthe Barbara Dr. RobinMcCarley Programs. (CLP) ProcessesChemistry ofLife Catalysis (CAT) and works with the Chemical She a Program Specialist. position in the Division as
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Dr. Tomislav Pintauer Dr. Jin Cha Dr. Tomislav Pintauer is Dr. Jin Cha is a Professor a Professor at the Bayer from the Department of School of Natural and Chemistry at Wayne State Environmental Sciences, University. He specializes Chemistry and Biochemistry, in the total syntheses at Duquesne University. His of structurally complex research focuses on atom medium-sized carbocyclic transfer radical addition and heterocyclic natural and cyclization reactions mediated by transition products. Dr. Cha serves as a Program Director in the metal complexes. Dr. Pintauer serves as a Program Chemical Synthesis (SYN) and the Chemical Catalysis Director in the Macromolecular, Supramolecular & (CAT) programs. Nanochemistry (MSN) Program.
WELCOMING BACK TO OUR EXPERTS!
Dr. Thomas Rauchfuss Dr. Bruce Johnson
Dr. Thomas Rauchfuss is Dr. Bruce Johnson was a Larry Faulkner Research a Program Director for Professor of Chemistry at Chemistry from 2010 to the University of Illinois, 2014 and we are glad to Champaign-Urbana. His have him back as one of our research group focuses on part-time, offsite Experts. environmentally-motivated His fields of interest are organometallic chemistry. Theoretical Chemistry, Dr. Rauchfuss joins the Chemical Catalysis (CAT) Mathematical Physics, Physical Chemistry, and and Chemical Synthesis (SYN) Programs as a Nanochemistry. Dr. Johnson works with the Chemical Program Director. Theory, Models & Computational Methods (CTMC) and the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Programs.
A FOND GOODBYE, PATHWAYS STUDENT WE WELCOME OUR NEW PATHWAYS AND PROGRAM ASSISTANT STUDENT (PROGRAM ASSISTANT)
Ms. Khoren Claiborne Mrs. Nancy Carey
Ms. Khoren Claiborne joined We welcome our new the CHE division in June Pathways Student (Program 2018 as a Program Assistant Assistant), Mrs. Nancy through the Student Pathway Carey. Mrs. Carey attends Program. She was at the the University of Maryland time also a student at the pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree University of North Carolina in Computer Networks at Greensboro majoring in and Cybersecurity. She Women and Gender Studies. She has recently accepted will provide administrative support to the Division a permanent position as Program Assistant in the Director, the CENTERS program, as well as the Division of Physics. Although we are sad to see Khoren entire CHE division. go, we are happy to see her strengthen her career. Khoren contributions to the CHE division have been greatly appreciated and she will be deeply missed.
An updated staff list is available on the CHE webpage.
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October 1, 2019 - October 31, 2019 (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s local time) for all proposals to: • Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI); • Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP); • Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS); and • Macromolecular, Supramolecular, and Nanochemistry (MSN) b. An updated CHE Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Solicitation for Phase I and New/Renewal Phase II proposals is also available (NSF 19-576, https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19576/nsf19576.htm) The CCI Program supports larger collaborative efforts focused on long-term fundamental chemical research challenges. CCIs produce transformative research, lead to innovation, and attract broad scientific and public interest. The CCI Program is a two-phase program. Both phases are described in this solicitation. Satisfactory progress in Phase I is required for Phase II applications; Phase I proposals funded in FY 2020 may seek Phase II funding in FY 2023. Please note that you may submit to this solicitation in addition to the CHE Disciplinary Research Program (core program).
For CCI Phase I proposals: Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s local time): August 13, 2019
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s local time): February 19, 2020 for Phase I Full Proposals, by invitation only
For CCI Phase II proposals: Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s local time): October 16, 2019 for Phase II Full Proposals, New and Renewal c. A new solicitation on Growing Convergence Research (GCR) has been released (NSF 19-551, https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19551/nsf19551.htm) Convergence research is a means for solving vexing research problems, particularly those complex problems focusing on societal needs. It entails integrating knowledge, methods, and expertise from different disciplines and forming novel frameworks to catalyze scientific discovery and innovation. The GCR solicitation targets multi-disciplinary team research that crosses directorate or division boundaries and is currently not supported by NSF programs, initiatives and research-focused Big Ideas.
Full proposals Deadline (due by 5 p.m., submitter’s local time): February 03, 2020
For additional information, please contact the cognizant Program Director(s) listed on the solicitation. Please note that you may submit to this solicitation in addition to the CHE Disciplinary Research Program (core program). d. The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites and Supplements solicitation has been modified (NSF 19-582, https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19582/nsf19582.htm) Please note the following changes:
• The suggested allowances for student stipends and other student costs have been increased.
• The REU Site Contacts web page https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_contacts.jsp( ) provides contact information for the REU program officers in each participating NSF division. The page also lists discipline- specific REU web pages. Additional CHE-specific information, like current sites and resources, can be found on the CHE REU website at: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&org=CHE&from=home
Proposals Deadline (due by 5 p.m., submitter’s local time): August 28, 2019
For those with undergraduate students who are interested in applying for REU research opportunities, please see our map of funded CHE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites: https://www.nsf.gov/mps/che/reu_awardsmap2019_large.jpg
For more information about on-going funding opportunities for the chemical sciences, please visit our division websites regularly at: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=137576&org=CHE for new solicitations and https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131983&org=CHE for on-going DCLs. 7 8 ARTICLE TITLE AUTHOR https://chemmatcars.uchicago.edu Researchers areencouraged to apply for freeinstrument time visit at their the facility; ChemMatCARS site at students school users, including andtoured high facility afew the facility. listened to the presentations made by ChemMatCARS metwith Director Matthew the Tirrell colleagues; andhis for studying the andmaterials chemical properties andinterfaces. liquids ofsolids, During this visit, the team NSF small-molecule crystallography,as scattering, andanomalous scattering, interfacial small angle small angle scattering, atSource Argonne (APS) National It Lab(ANL). techniques, isthesuch providing top diffractionfacility specialized experimentalon March station co-funded 14-15,2019.ChemMatCARS isaCHE/DMR at the Advanced Photon team NSF’s visited NSF Chemistry andMaterials Center for Advanced Sources Radiation (ChemMatCARS) facility The Assistant Director for the Directorate for Mathematical and Dr.SciencesPhysical (MPS), Anne Kinney, and the 2019 CHEMMATCARS SITEVISIT CHE website for moreCHE information. scheduling anddeliveranswer presentations questions, coaching, participate in speed on upcoming funding the opportunities. See have will CHE presence staff anexpanded be at available thewill to andDOE Exposition. Please visit CHE our booth! August 25-29,2019.Together with the Department ofEnergy’s &Biosciences Division, Chemical Geosciences Sciences, The Division of will Chemistry attend the AmericanSociety’s Chemical Fall National CA from Meeting in San Diego, at theNSF/CHE ACS and DOE/CSGB National Meeting in SanDiego students to senior scientists representing industrial, academic, andgovernment sectors. thebiosensors fieldsof chemistry. and analytical of A broadattendees participatedrange in discussion,the graduate from grantsmanship strategies.conversation The coveredalso conducting as topics researchsuch funding in and cutting-edge Program Directors” on March 19,2019at Pittcon’19. Thenetworkingfunding sessionon focused opportunities and aNetworkingProgram organized in CHE) Session “Face to Face Discussion with National Foundation Science (NSF) Environmental, andTransport (from the Cook andKelsey Systems, Chemical Measurement CBET) andImaging ProgramNSF Officers Li(from Chenzhong the Biosensing in theDivisionProgram of Bioengineering, Chemical, CHE and CBET at the Pittcon Meeting 2019 CHE’S OUTREACH IN2019
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The International Year of the Periodic Table This year marks the 150th birthday of Dimitri Mendeleev’s enormously consequential discovery: the outline of the Periodic Table. To celebrate, the United Nations declared this the International Year of the Periodic Table, an exciting designation for chemists everywhere!! As CHE plans ways to celebrate, we encourage the chemistry community to engage with their professional societies, many of which are offering ongoing activities throughout the year or at their national meetings.
2019 CHEMISTRY EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR WORKSHOP The 2019 NSF Chemistry Early Career Investigator Workshop was held on May 19-21, 2019 in Alexandria, Virginia. The workshop brought 90 junior faculty from a broad range of institutions and demographics, established investigators and staff from a number of federal agencies together. Special thanks to workshop organizers Dominik Konkolewicz from Miami University and Paula Diaconescu from UCLA, and CHE Program Directors Tarek Sammakia and Ken Moloy.
The participants discussed strategies for crafting research ideas, planning educational and outreach activities, and assessing and evaluating project goals. Please visit the below website for more information: https://blogs.miamioh.edu/early-career-investigator-workshop
CHE/DMS INNOVATION LAB: LEARNING THE POWER OF DATA IN CHEMISTRY The Divisions of Chemistry (CHE) and Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at NSF jointly sponsored an Innovation Lab exploring the power of data science in chemistry on December 17-21, 2018. The purpose of this Innovation Lab was to leverage new advances in data science to address urgent challenges in chemistry, thereby advancing both fields. An Innovation Lab is a deliberate, creative process of generating novel research ideas through face-to-face meetings. It goes beyond a workshop and enables the participants from different fields to develop new research ideas at scientific interfaces that lead to strong, long-term collaborations between historically non-overlapping fields. The CHE/DMS Data Innovation Lab was organized by Professor Xiaoming Huo at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor Paul Zimmerman at the University of Michigan. Forty participants from many areas of chemistry, mathematics, statistics, and data science attended; six experts working at the CHE/DMS interface served as steering committee members and mentors at the event. The research ideas/teams that emerged from the innovation lab are encouraged to pursue funding opportunities offered by NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) solicitations or through other data-driven research funding mechanisms. 9 10 ARTICLE TITLE AUTHOR Management Fellow for coordinating these efforts! Tumblr, and@NSF_MPS), (@NSF andNSF’s News from the Field. Many thanks to Melissa Olson, CHE’s Presidential often make highlights on someappearances ofNSF’sCHE channels, media many including social Facebook, Twitter Highlights/HighlightWebpages/highlights.jsp permission the The work. products form highlighting be found can polished at: [email protected] with your managingProgram Information Director and/or forward email account at highlights to the CHE loves hearingCHE about our investigators’ great research. Please share notable results andupcoming publications CHEMISTRY HIGHLIGHTS Applied Nano 10.1021/acsanm.8b00633) Materials (DOI: NTs to temperatures and recentlywas in ACS over CHE-1610175 published This worksby 500oC. is part in supported manufacturing NTs processes. Because BN are resistant to oxidation, removing the chains simple alkyl heating isas as BN 10.1021/jacs.7b13823). (DOI: andwas recently in the published by CHE-1708210 in part funded nitrogen substituted PAH frameworks andare looking to extend systems. to this new chemistry This work was onto the PAH Tilley’s framework. group demonstrated rational control over the absorption properties ofdifferent EXAMPLE HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: . Investigators to work encouraged with are their especially institution’s press office to create . Tilley’s group at the University ofCalifornia Berkeley discovered anew additions are relatively underdeveloped. Researchers in Professor Don electronic properties, but methods for these andgeneral reliable sorts of Controlled insertions ofheteroatoms for fine allow tuning of PAH electronics due to theirorganic unique andtunable electronic properties. aromaticPolycyclic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are interesting candidates for Aromatic Hydrocarbons New routes to Nitrogen-Containing Polycyclic in various solvents, organic potentially making them amenable to With the chains alkyl attached to their surface, NTs BN are dispersible chains onto graft tothe 1-bromododecane,surface. are dodecyl exposed lithium. sites This readies on the NT so surface of thatBN the as they nanotubes, the NTs BN are submersed in ammonia liquid with metal Adapting the Billups-Birch reaction,functionalizing often for used carbon their stubbornly inert surface.route modify to chemically deposition, Professor Marti’s Angel team at University Rice discovered a to disperse individual NTs BN into solution processing for easy and attractive material, inertness, makes also themLooking to difficult process. temperatures than higher 700˚C.Unfortunately, what makes NTs BN an like copper, are electricallyinsulating andresist thermal decomposition at are they set ofproperties: stronger than andlighter conduct heat steel, Boron nitride NTs) nanotubes (BN are nanomaterials with animpressive Processing inert Boron nitride nanotubes transfer units installed can pyrazine, be or reaction, o-quinone diazol, with di(aza)titana-cyclopentadiene functionality. Now setup for a precursors with Cp₂Ti(Me₃SiC=CSiMe₃) to form aPAH appended method two-step startsTheir cyclization with oligo(dinitrile) of the the exploration ofstructure-property relationships. compounds andallowing ofanalogous for opening upfashion, alibrary method for synthesizing nitrogen-containing PAHs in ageneralizable Journal ofthe American Chemical Society
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NEW 2019 CHE CAREER AWARDEES
Congratulations to the NSF/Chemistry 2019 CAREER Awardees!
The faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.
We hereby recognize the NSF/CHE CAREER Awardees, Class of 2019!
ROBBYN ANAND PAULO ARAUJO Iowa State University University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Award Number: Award Number: 1849109 1848418 Title: Title: CAREER: Advancing Ion Concentration CAREER: Exploration and Polarization to Enrich New Classes of Controllability of Excitonic Behaviors Analytes from Complex Media and to in Conjugated Polymer Single Isolated Interface with Analysis: Breaking the Chains and Chain Aggregates Glass Ceiling on Enrichment
ALEXANDER AYZNER JOANNA ATKIN University of California, Santa Cruz University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Award Number: 1848069 Award Number: 1848278 Title: CAREER: Soft Light-Harvesting Title: Systems Based on inter-Conjugated CAREER: Modulation Polyelectrolyte Complexes Nanospectroscopy for Characterization of Local Electronic Properties
CARLOS BAIZ TIMOTHY BERKELBACH University of Texas Austin University of Chicago Award Number: Award Number: 1847199 1848369 Title: Title: CAREER: Ultrafast Hydrogen-bond CAREER: Spectroscopy of Metals Dynamics in Crowded, Heterogeneous from Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry Environments
ARTICLE TITLE ARTICLE AUTHOR 11 12 ARTICLE TITLE AUTHOR Stanford University NOAH BURNS University of Virginia KATERI DUBAY Self-Assembly Enabled by Coordination-Driven Small Molecule ActivationsCAREER: Title: 1847950 Award Number: at Buffalo The State University of New York TIMOTHY COOK SIRT6 by DNA Allosteric ActivationCAREER: of Title: 1846785 Award Number: Albany College of Pharmacy YANA CEN Membrane Lipids Biophysical Study ofNoncanonical Chemical SynthesisCAREER: and Title: 1846512 Award Number: Sequences ofStep-grown Copolymers of Collective Behaviors on the Simulation to Investigate the Influence UsingCAREER: Numerical Title: 1848009 Award Number:
Biosynthetic Pathways Etoposide and Other Natural Product and Nitrile Formation Mechanisms in Iron Csp2-Csp3 Enzyme Catalyzed InvestigatingCAREER: Non-heme Title: 1845913 Award Number: North Carolina State University WEI-CHEN CHANG STEM Education in Hawaii Group Catalysts and Bridging Gaps in Phosphorus-BasedHypervalent Main Roadmaps for Developing CAREER: Title: 1847711 Award Number: University of Hawaii MATTHEW CAIN with Molecular Distributions Improving Aqueous Transfer Processes Modeling MatterCAREER: and Title: 1847583 Award Number: Oklahoma State University CHRISTOPHER FENNELL and Supramolecular Catalysts Membranes, Heteromolecular Dyads Self-assembly ofInverted Bilayer Solution: Developing Tools for the Pnictogen BondingCAREER: in Title: 1847878 Award Number: Texas Tech University ANTHONY COZZOLINO AWARDS
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DAN FU ALEXANDER GRENNING University of Washington University of Florida Award Number: Award Number: 1846503 1844443 Title: Title: CAREER: Imaging Vesicular CAREER: Developing a Modular Neurotransmitter Dynamics with Synthesis of 6-7-5 Terpenoid Natural High-sensitivity Stimulated Raman Products and Analogs Scattering Microscopy
MICHAEL HILINSKI AMY HIXON University of Virginia University of Notre Dame Award Number: Award Number: 1845219 1847939 Title: Title: CAREER: New Methods for the CAREER: Molecular-Scale Behavior Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing of Actinide Elements at the Mineral- Heterocycles Water Interface
CHRISTOPHER HOBBS HRANT HRATCHIAN Sam Houston State University University of California, Merced Award Number: Award Number: 1847914 1848580 Title: Title: CAREER: Developing New CAREER: Development of Efficient Polymer Supported Catalysts Using Spin Projection Models for Applications ROMP, ADMET, and ATRP with to Transition Metal Catalysis High School, Undergraduate, and Graduate Students
PENGFEI HUO TODD HYSTER University of Rochester Princeton University Award Number: Award Number: 1845747 1846861 Title: Title: CAREER: Quantum Dynamics of CAREER: Biocatalytic Synthesis of Photochemical Reactions in Solar Enantioenriched Nitrogen Containing Energy Conversions Heterocycles
ARTICLE TITLE ARTICLE AUTHOR 13 14 ARTICLE TITLE AUTHOR University of Mississippi JONAH JURSS Green Catalysts Complexes Toward Earth-abundant Characterization ofManganese Synthesis and CAREER: Title: 1847933 Award Number: at Buffalo The State University of New York DAVID LACY Homodimers Chemical Stabilization ofRepressive Transcriptional Regulation by Reprogramming CAREER: Title: 1845464 Award Number: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ANGELA KOEHLER Dioxide Reduction for Efficient Multielectron Carbon Control in Transformative Catalysts Precise StructuralCAREER: Title: 1848478 Award Number: Electrochemical Storage Energy Active Molecules for Sustainable Designer Redox CAREER: Title: 1847674 Award Number: Utah State University TIANBIAO LIU
Graphene LiquidInterfaces Oxide Exploring Chemistry at CAREER: Title: 1845795 Award Number: Agricultural andMechanical College StateLouisiana University & REVATI KUMAR Responsive Polymer Networks Covalent Crosslinkers for Light- Photocontrolled Dynamic CAREER: Title: 1847948 Award Number: Northwestern University JULIA KALOW Active Compounds Mass Spectrometry to Study Membrane Enabling Nanodisc NativeCAREER: Title: 1845230 Award Number: University of Arizona MICHAEL MARTY Isotactic Poly(vinyl ethers) Investigations into the Synthesis of Thermoplastics: Mechanistic ANew Class ofPolarCAREER: Title: 1847362 Award Number: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina, FRANK LEIBFARTH AWARDS
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SHARON NEUFELDT ERIC NEUSCAMMAN Montana State University University of California, Berkeley Award Number: Award Number: 1848090 1848012 Title: Title: CAREER: Combined Experimental CAREER: Extending Ground State and Computational Approach to Quantum Chemistry to Excited States Controlling Site Selectivity in Cross Coupling
MING-YU NGAI CHRISTINE PHILLIPS-PIRO The State University of New York Franklin & Marshall College at Stony Brook Award Number: Award Number: 1847937 1848463 Title: Title: CAREER: Probing Structure and CAREER: Chiral Catalysts for Expanding Function with Genetically Enantioselective Photoredox- Encoded Non-Canonical Amino Acids Catalyzed C-C Bond-Forming Reactions
JULIE PIGZA DAVID POWERS University of Southern Mississippi Texas A&M University, Main Campus Award Number: Award Number: 1848257 1848135 Title: Title: CAREER: Bridging Synthesis CAREER: Aerobic Hypervalent and Computational Chemistry Iodine Chemistry as a Platform for to Parameterize Noncovalent Oxidase Catalysis Interactions in Asymmetric Catalysis
SERGEY PRONIN RYAN RAFFERTY University of California, Irvine Kansas State University Award Number: Award Number: 1848076 1848186 Title: Title: CAREER: Development CAREER: Penetrating Barriers - of Catalytic Enantioselective A New Paradigm for Enhancing Hydrofunctionalizations of Alkenes Molecular Transport into Complex Biological Membranes
ARTICLE TITLE ARTICLE AUTHOR 15 16 ARTICLE TITLE AUTHOR Selectivity and Sensitivity the Nanoscale for Enhanced Reaction Compartmentalizing Molecules at Responsive DNA-Nanoshells - Multi-stimuliCAREER: Title: 1847869 Award Number: University of Connecticut JESSICA ROUGE Ferrous Iron Transport and Selectivity ofMicrobial Structure, Mechanism,CAREER: Title: 1844624 Award Number: Baltimore County University of Maryland, AARON SMITH Natural Product Biosynthesis TransformationsCatalyzed in New Metalloenzyme- CAREER: Title: 1847932 Award Number: Princeton University SEYEDSAYAMDOST MOHAMMAD Substrates Functionalization ofEthereal for the Activation and Iridium Catalysts CAREER: Title: 1847813 Award Number: Vanderbilt University NATHAN SCHLEY
Spectroscopy ofSolvated Aza-aromatics Time-resolved Multi-pulseCAREER: Title: 1846480 Award Number: University of Washington CODY SCHLENKER Tool for Gene Regulation CRISPR-Tet2-Based Epitranscriptomic Synthesis ofPrecision Polymers Ribosome-inspired CAREER: Title: 1848444 Award Number: Agricultural College University of Vermont &State SEVERIN SCHNEEBELI Based LigandsBased Featuring Multidentate Carborane- Materials PHOLED Pt(II) CAREER: Title: 1846849 Award Number: University of California, Los Angeles ALEXANDER SPOKOYNY Derivatives in and RNA Develop Approaches to Study 5-Methylcytidine Chemical Biology CAREER: Title: 1845486 Award Number: at Albany The State University of New York JIA SHENG AWARDS
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SABINE CHANTAL STIEBER GRACE STOKES California Poly Pomona Santa Clara University Foundation, Inc. Award Number: Award Number: 1848583 1847926 Title: Title: CAREER: Quantifying How Peptoids CAREER: Quantifying NO Interact with Lipid Membranes Activation and Coordination Modes through Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Computations
THOMAS TEETS LAURENE TETARD University of Houston University of Central Florida Award Number: Award Number: 1846831 1847830 Title: Title: CAREER: Synthetic Strategies CAREER: Instrument to Optimize Luminescence Development of Plasmonic-Assisted and Photoredox Properties of Nanomechanical Detection for Organometallic Complexes Polarized Spectroscopy and Imaging
STEVEN TOWNSEND BRETT VANVELLER Vanderbilt University Iowa State University Award Number: Award Number: 1847804 1848261 Title: Title: CAREER: Bioorganic Investigation CAREER: Investigation of of Human Milk Oligosaccharide Environmentally-Sensitive Modulation of Group B Streptococcus Photoreactions
MATTHIAS WAEGELE KEVIN WELSHER Boston College Duke University Award Number: Award Number: 1847841 1847899 Title: Title: CAREER: Elucidating How the Liquid CAREER: Target-locked Single Side of the Electrochemical Interface Molecule Spectroscopy and Controls Catalytic Selectivity during Super-resolution Microscopy Carbon Dioxide Reduction
17 TITLE ARTICLE AUTHOR 17 18 ARTICLE TITLE AUTHOR Branching sub 10nm Spatial Resolution Stimulated Microscopy with Raman Super-Resolution Scanning Probe Development of CAREER: Title: 1847765 Award Number: Lehigh University XIAOJI XU by Polymerization-Induced Polymeric Materials Enabled Hierarchically Structured Synthesis of CAREER: Title: 1845184 Award Number: Yale University MINGJIANG ZHONG Based NitricBased Sensor Oxide Studies on anIron-Sulfur Cluster- Structural and MechanisticCAREER: Title: 1846908 Award Number: University of Nebraska, Lincoln LIMEI ZHANG AWARDS Division of Chemistry Name Title Telephone Email Dr. Carol Bessel Acting Division Director 703-292-4906 [email protected] Dr. Lin He Acting Deputy Division Director 703-292-4956 [email protected] Mrs. Gloria Yancey Program Support Manager 703-292-4718 [email protected] Ms. Debbie Jones Operations Specialist 703-292-7852 [email protected] Ms. C. Michelle Jenkins Program Analyst 703-292-7874 [email protected] Dr. Melissa Olson Presidential Management Fellow 703-292-7448 [email protected] Program Specialists Team Mrs. Marsha Hawkins CMI, MRI 703-292-4877 [email protected] Ms. Renee Ivey CAT, CLP 703-292-4928 [email protected] Mr. Darren Kimble CSDM-A & B, ECS, REU 703-292-7159 [email protected] Ms. Kimberly Noble CTMC, MSN 703-292-2969 [email protected] Ms. Marla Stewart CCI, SYN 703-292-8735 [email protected] Technical Staff Dr. Catalina Achim CLP 703-292-2048 [email protected] Dr. Michelle Bushey CCI, REU, Special Projects 703-292-4938 [email protected] Dr. Jin Cha SYN, CAT 703-292-2461 [email protected] Dr. Kelsey Cook CMI 703-292-7490 [email protected] Dr. Katharine Covert CCI 703-292-4950 [email protected] Dr. Walter Ermler CTMC, REU 703-292-2919 [email protected] Dr. Colby Foss CSDM-A, CCI 703-292-5327 [email protected] Dr. John Gilje SYN 703-292-8840 [email protected] Dr. Evelyn Goldfield CTMC 703-292-2173 [email protected] Dr. P. Shing Ho CLP 703-292-7054 [email protected] Dr. George Janini MSN 703-292-4971 [email protected] Dr. Bruce Johnson CTMC, REU 703-292-8840 [email protected] Dr. Richard Johnson CSDM-B 603-862-2302 [email protected] Dr. Bob Kuczkowski MRI 703-292-8840 [email protected] Dr. Tingyu Li CSDM-B 703-292-4949 [email protected] Dr. Robin McCarley CLP, CMI 703-292-7514 [email protected] Dr. Kenneth Moloy CAT 703-292-8441 [email protected] Dr. Carlos Murillo MRI 703-292-4970 [email protected] Dr. John Papanikolas CSDM-A, MSN 703-292-8809 [email protected] Dr. Tomislav Pintauer MSN 703-292-2394 [email protected] Dr. Thomas Rauchfuss CAT, SYN 703-292-8653 [email protected] Dr. Tong Ren CSDM-B 703-292-8840 [email protected] Dr. Tarek Sammakia SYN, CAT 703-292-7486 [email protected] Dr. Anne-Marie Schmoltner ECS, CSDM-A 703-292-4716 [email protected] Dr. Suk-Wah Tam-Chang MSN 703-292-8684 [email protected] Chemistry Program Abbreviations Chemical Catalysis (CAT) Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS) Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) Macromolecular, Supramolecular & Nanochemistry (MSN) Chemical Measurement & Imaging (CMI) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Chemical Structure, Dynamics & Mechanisms (CSDM A & B) Chemical Synthesis (SYN) Chemical Theory, Models & Computational Methods (CTMC)
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