Chemical Bonding Centers Phase II  (CBC-II)

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  07-575

SYNOPSIS

The Chemical Bonding Centers (CBC) Program is designed to support the formation of centers that can address major, long-term basic chemical research problems that have a high probability of producing both transformative research and will lead to  innovation.  Appropriate research problems are high-risk but potentially high-impact and will attract broad scientific and public interest. Centers are expected to be agile structures that can respond rapidly to emerging opportunities and make full use of cyberinfrastructure to enhance collaborations. Center teams may include researchers from disciplines other than Chemistry and from academia, industry, government laboratories and international organizations. CBCs are expected to integrate research, education, and outreach and to include a plan to broaden participation to under-represented groups. Proposals should contain a compelling strategy for achieving demonstrable impact in all of these areas.

The CBC program is a two-phase program. In the first phase, Columbia University, California Institute of Technology and University of California-Irvine were lead institutions funded by NSF in FY 2005 to explore the development of CBCs. The second phase is to provide funding for implementation of full-scale centers in FY 2008. Only these development teams are eligible to participate in Phase II of the competition by submitting a proposal for the establishment of a full CBC.

RELATED PROGRAMS

Collaborative Research in Chemistry

Environmental Molecular Science Institutes

Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers

Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships

RELATED URLS

CBC Highlights

REVISIONS AND UPDATES

In furtherance of the President's Management Agenda, NSF has identified programs that will offer proposers the option to utilize Grants.gov to prepare and submit proposals, or will require that proposers utilize Grants.gov to prepare and submit proposals. Grants.gov provides a single Government-wide portal for finding and applying for Federal grants online.

In response to this program solicitation, proposers may opt to submit proposals via Grants.gov or via the NSF FastLane system.

THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF

Chemistry Centers

Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program