National Science Foundation Funds Three Chemical Bonding Centers
Aug 12, 2005 — ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 12 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it will fund a new group of chemical bonding centers (CBCs), or multifaceted research teams. The three new centers will be based at the California Institute of Technology, Columbia University and the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Respectively, they hope to find new and more economical ways of storing solar energy, to illuminate the inner workings of molecules and to create new kinds of nanoscale molecular...