Material Science Engineering Grants
Dr. Michel Barsoum received $61,830 from Environmental Protection Agency for “Cool Roof Coatings Utilizing Glass Hollow Microspheres for Improved Solar Reflectance.”
Dr. Michel Barsoum received $10,000 from Environmental Protection Agency for “Green Cement as a Sustainable Building Material.”
Dr. Michel Barsoum received $125,000 from National Science Foundation for “Understanding and Recreation of a 4500 Year Old Reconstituted Limestone.”
Dr. Yury Gogotsi received $365,172 from National Science Foundation for “International Collaboration in Chemistry: Ionic Liquid inConfined Environments.”
Dr. Yury Gogotsi received $494,514 from University of Utah for “SISGR: The Influence of Electrolyte Structure and Electrode Morphology on the Performance of Ionic-Liquid Based Supercapacitors.”
Dr. Caroline Schauer received $300,000 from National Science Foundation for “REU Site: SENSORS-- From Design to Implementation.”
Dr. Wei-Heng Shih received $107,033 from U.S. Department of Defense for “Near-Infrared Quantum Dots for Clear Margin Determination during Breast Cancer Surgery.”
Dr. Jonathan Spanier received $40,000 from Structured Materials Industries Inc (SMI) for “STTR Phase I: Full Spectrum Zinc Oxide Nanowire Sensors by MOCVD.”
Dr. Ulrike Wegst received $315,297 from National Science Foundation for “Mineralized Electrospun Chitosan Nanofibers as Bone Scaffolds.”
Dr. Michel Barsoum received $75,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency for "Alkali-Activated Cement (AAC) as A Sustainable Building Material."
Dr. Yury Gogotsi received $21,000 from Ingenium Technologies for “Power Reactant Delivery System for Air Independent Fuel Cell.”
Dr. Jonathan Spanier received $127,241 from Structured Materials Industries Inc (SMI) for “Fabrication Technology for Oxide Film Heterastructure Devices.”
Dr. Jonathan Spanier received $525,060 from the U.S. Department of Education for “GAANN for Renewable Energy Technologies and Infrastructure Networks (RETAIN).”
Dr. Mitra Taheri received $448,811 from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for "DU Faculty Dev. Program in Nuclear Materials Science: Design and Characterization of Radiation-Tolerant Alloys using Multiscale Grain Boundary Engineering and Advanced Microscopy Methods."
Dr. Mitra Taheri received $299,486 from the U.S. Department of Energy for "Instrumentation for Research and Education in Nuclear Engineering and Nuclear Materials Science: Quantifying Radiation Damage and Detection in Reactor Materials."
Dr. Mitra Taheri received $290,267 from the National Science Foundation for "Multiscale Correlation of Magnetism and Microstructure at Iron/Oxide Interfaces."
Dr. Mitra Taheri received $63,900 from Carpenter Technology Corporation for "Multiscale Investigation of the Effect of Alloying Elements on the Mechanical Behavior of Ultra High Strength Steels."
Dr. Ulrike Wegst received $27,690 from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for "Complex Nanocomposites for Bone Regeneration."
Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos received $131,265 from U.S. Department of Education for "GAANN: Drexel Research and Education in Advanced Materials (GAANN-DREAM)."