Current funding and support

Department of Energy (BES Materials Chemistry)
“Exploration of radical conjugation pathways in pi-electron materials”
October 1, 2018 – June 30, 2021 ($1,095,000, DE-SC0019017, JDT lead PI, collaboration with R. Jasti at U. Oregon, and M. Kertesz at Georgetown)

National Science Foundation (DMREF)
“Self-assembled peptide-pi-election supramolecular polymers for bioinspired energy harvesting, transport, and management”
October 2017 – September 3, 2021 ($1,600,000, DMR-1728947, JDT lead PI, collaboration with H. E. Katz at JHU and A. L. Ferguson at UIUC)

Johns Hopkins University (Discovery Award)
“Engineering plasticity after stroke to promote recovery using peptide pi-electron hydrogels”
July 1, 2017 – January 31, 2019 ($100,000, JDT co-PI, collaboration with R. Felling and S. Zeiler at JHU School of Medicine)

National Science Foundation (CHE Macromolecular, Supramolecular, and Nanochemistry)
“Fluxional macromolecular pi-electronics via rational manipulation of aromaticity and spin”
August 1, 2016 – July 31, 2019 ($540,000, CHE-1607821, JDT lead PI, collaboration with A. E. Bragg at JHU)

National Science Foundation (CHE Chemical Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanism B)
“Encouraging pi-electron delocalization through boron-based heteroaromatic subunits” (CHE-1464798)
May 2015 – April 2019

Johns Hopkins University

Prior funding and support

National Science Foundation (CAREER)
“Regulating charge transport through pi-conjugated electronic materials” (DMR-0644727)
April 2007 – March 2013

National Science Foundation (EAGER)
“Optoelectronic supramolecular block-copolymer assemblies aided by donor-acceptor interactions” (JDT co-PI, DMR-0947897)
September 2009 – August 2012

Institute for NanoBioTechnology (JHU)
“Supramolecular bioelectronic nanostructures for use in neural tissue engineering”
May 2010 – August 2011

Petroleum Research Fund (administered by the American Chemical Society)
“Unusual aromaticity and organic semiconductor performance” (PRF-45738-G7)
February 2007 – September 2009

National Science Foundation (DMR Polymers)
“Locally unusual and tunable aromatic rings for pi-conjugated polymers” (DMR-1207259)
July 2012 – June 2016

Department of Energy (BES)
“Self-assembly of pi-conjugated peptides in aqueous environments leading to energy-transporting bioelectronic nanostructures” (DE-SC0004857)
September 2010 – August 2013 (JDT sole PI)
September 2013 – August 2016 (JDT lead PI; collaboration with H. E. Katz at JHU and A. L. Ferguson at UIUC)

National Science Foundation (DMR Biomaterials)
“Nanoscale electric fields in self-assembled optoelectronic biomaterials” (DMR-1407493)
July 2014 – June 2017 (JDT lead PI; collaboration with H. E. Katz and H.-Q. Mao, JHU)