Tony Jun Huang, James Henderson Assistant Professor at the ESM Department, along with Prof. Chung-Chiun Liu at Case Western Reserve University, Prof. Fraser Stoddart at UCLA, and Prof. William Goddard at Caltech, will receive $1.3 million over the next four years for their joint proposal "NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS) using Light-Driven Molecular Shuttles as Active Nanostructures".

This project is one of 25 out of 386 original proposals selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be funded as part of its highly competitive Nanoscale: Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) grants.