MPS Chemistry Research Programs (MPS Chem)
Funds the whole of NSF's chemistry portfolio through one door — nine programmes, $150 million, no deadline.
NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences directorate routes all nine of its chemistry programmes through this notice.
They are Chemical Catalysis; Chemical Measurement and Imaging; Chemical Mechanism, Function and Properties; Chemical Structure and Dynamics; Chemical Synthesis; Chemical Systems and Solutions; Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods; Chemistry of Life Processes; and Macr…
Nine NSF chemistry programmes through one solicitation — catalysis, measurement and imaging, mechanism function and properties, structure and dynamics, synthesis, systems and solutions, theory models and computational methods, chemistry of life processes, and macromolecular supramolecular and nanochemistry.
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