National Science Foundation, "International Collaboration in Chemistry: Nanoscaled Molybdenum-Oxide Clusters: Syntheses, Tuning Surface Properties and Counterion Effects", PI, 09/2010 - 08/2013

Internationl Collaborative Grant from Tsinghua University, China "Controllable Self-Assembly of metal Oxides", Foreign PI (Tsinghua PI: Yongge Wei), 07/2010 - 06/2013

National Science Foundation, "MRI: Acquisition of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) for Visualization, Assembly, and Analysis of Materials at the Nanometer and Molecular Scale", Sr. Personnel, 10/2009 - 09/2012

Faculty Innovation Grant, Lehigh University, "Exploration of the role of counter-ions on the formation of virus capsid shells", PI, 06/2009 - 12/2010

Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, PI, 09/2008 - 08/2012

National Science Foundation, "Porous, structurally well-defined anionic nanocapsules with varying charge density: interactions with their environment and with each other", PI, 08/2007 - 07/2010

American Chemistry Society - Petroleum Research Fund, "Study the state of counter-ions in polyoxometalate macroionic solutions and their role in the 'blackberry'-type structure formation", PI, 06/2007 - 08/2009

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, "Hydrophilic Macroionic Solutions", PI, 04/2006 - 09/2011