The National Science Foundation is inviting grant applications
for chemically-relevant measurement science and imaging, targeting
both improved understanding of new and existing methods and
development of innovative approaches and instruments.  Research areas
include, but are not limited to, sampling and separation science;
electrochemistry; spectrometry; frequency- and time-domain
spectroscopy; sensors and bioassays; and microscopy.  The program
supports chemical (as opposed to morphological) imaging and
measurement tools probing chemical properties and processes across a
wide range of spatial scales -- from macroscopic structures down to
single molecules -- as well as innovations enabling the monitoring and
imaging of rapid chemical and electronic processes and new approaches
to data analysis and interpretation, including chemometrics.

DEADLINE: July 31 and November 30, 2012