Are preliminary results required for New Directions proposals?
No. The ACS PRF ND grant is intended for generating preliminary results, or proof-of-concept results that might form the basis of subsequent proposals to agencies that provide sustaining research grant support. Accordingly, ND proposals should not have published preliminary results; indeed, the new project being proposed might have only one or two preliminary experiments showing the idea can work, or, there may be no preliminary results at all in the proposal.
