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Meet our Energy Boost Seed Grant Recipients

2021- 2022 Recipients

FY22 Energy Boost Seed Grant
Period: July 1, 2021- June 30, 2022

  • Grant Project: Boosting the Energy Efficiency of Wireless Communications via Extremely Large                                  Antenna Arrays

        PI: Gayan L. Aruma Baduge, Electrical, Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

  • Grant Project: Novel Porous Coordination Frameworks for Solar Energy Conversions

        PI: Pravas Deria, Chemical and Biomolecular Science

  • Grant Project: Developing Low- Cost, All- Soluble and All- Iron Redox Flow Batteries for the                                     Grid-Scale Storage of Energy

        PI: Dr. Yong Gao, Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences/Dr. Chao Lu, Electrical, Computer and                                        Biomedical Engineering

  • Grant Project: An investigation into the effects of hydro-seuestered biological/synthetic carbon                                 polymers and conversion by subsurface microorganisms

        PI: Dr. Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm/Lahiru Jayakody - Microbiology

2019-2020 Recipients

FY20 Energy Boost Seed Grant
Period: July 1, 2019- June30, 2020 (Covid-19 extension approved through August 2020)
  • Grant Project: Development of Energy- sustainable Internet of Things
        PI: Kang Chen/Ning Weng- Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Grant Project: Heterogeneous photocatalytic transformation of
        PI: Jai Liu/Boyd Goodson- Civil and Environmental Engineering

2018-2019 Recipients

FY19 Energy Boost Seed Grant
Period: July 1, 2018- June 30, 2019
  • Grant Porject: Design of Gallium Oxide based Wireless Smart Sensor Platform for in-situ Oxygen Monitoring in Coal- Fired Power Plants
        PI: Chao Lu/ Shaihk Ahmed- ECE
  • Grant Project: Predictive Biosensor for CO2 conversion to methane and related industrial useful molecules
        PI: Farahan Chowdhury (MEEP) Sivakumar/ Kohli (Physics)

2017-2018 Recipients

FY18 Energy Boost Seed Grant
Period: July 1, 2017- June 30, 2018
  • Grant Project: Social Media Footprints of Public Perception on Energy Issues and Their Policy Implications
        PI: Ruopo, Li – Geography
  • Grant Project: Investigations of atomic layers of MoS2 and doped MoS2 for Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
        PI: Dipanjan Mazumdar- Talapatra/Jayasekara – Physics

2016-2017 Recipients

FY 17 Energy Boost Seed Grant
Period: July 1, 2016- June 30, 2017
  • Grant Project: Vibration Energy Harvesting Devices for Simultaneously Powering Multiple Electrical Loads
        PI: Christopher G. Cooley/ Chai/ Chu 453-7007
  • Grant Project: Hybrid Porous Materials Relevant for Selective Capture and Catalytic and Electrocatalytic Conversion of Greenhouse
        PI: P. Deria- Chemical and Biomolecular Science
  • Grant Project: Exploring Electrochemically Assisted Methane Production from Coal by Microbial Electrolysis Cell Systems
        PI: Mohtashim Shamsi and Lanna Liang