This $447,589 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research and educational activities at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The project aims to develop a deeper understanding of how electrochemically active nanofluids - colloidal suspensions of nano-sized particles in fluids like water - can be leveraged for energy storage and conversion applications. Key objectives include modifying nanoparticle surfaces to...
This $185,080 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research between the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Purdue University to develop porous bi-layer catalysts for converting carbon dioxide into valuable products like ethylene at industrially relevant rates. The researchers will engineer novel layered catalyst structures combining specific metal/metal oxide heterostructures to reduce reaction overpotential and...
This $575,004 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund an interdisciplinary research project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to develop new flexible electrochemical technologies that can integrate with the power grid and chemical supply chains to achieve economic and sustainability goals. The key research activities include: (1) developing infrastructure-level models to capture the coupling between...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $492,413 will support research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from January 2023 through December 2027 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to understand how collective ion assembly influences electrochemical properties and electron transfer at interfaces to advance technologies for carbon dioxide recycling. Specifically, the grantee will study how ion molecular structures in ionic liquid electrolytes impact...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $453,701 Project Grant to Clarkson University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research on improving electrochemical processes for sustainable fuel and chemical production. The project aims to gain a deeper understanding of the complex chemistry occurring at the interface between electrocatalysts and liquid or polymer electrolytes. Key objectives include: 1) quantifying how solvent, ion, and surface effects influence...
This $300,000 Project Grant award to Washington State University was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will fund research to develop a novel catalyst design aimed at reducing pollutants from gasoline- and diesel-fueled vehicles. The project will integrate global optimization algorithms and multi-scale models to investigate the fluxionality of surface oxide supports for single-site catalysts, with the goal of reducing the amount of expensive...
This $614,548 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop a precise synthetic method for fabricating alloy-based electrocatalysts with controlled surface compositions and facets. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award running from November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2025 will enable researchers at Georgia Tech to apply first-principles calculations and data science to identify optimal alloy compositions for electrocatalytic hydrogen...
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR PHARMACEUTICAL SYNTHESIS VIA NICKEL-CATALYZED ARYL-ALKYL CROSS-COUPLING." This three-year award beginning in August 2021 will fund the development of electrochemical technologies for pharmaceutical synthesis using...
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, supports a collaborative research effort led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Colorado State University, and University of Missouri to study new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules. The research team will use analytical and computational...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $431,091 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop computational tools for rational design of nanoporous catalysts for carbonylation reactions. The award period is from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2027. The project aims to discover effective porous solid-acid catalysts as a technologically and environmentally appealing alternative to rare metal catalysts and corrosive...
This $407,778 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to develop new electrocatalytic approaches for improved hydrocarbon utilization. The project aims to control the elementary steps involved in incorporating oxygen into hydrocarbons to increase combustion efficiency and enable more selective chemical manufacturing of desired hydrocarbon products. Key activities include modulating the voltage applied to electrocatalysts to sequentially enhance hydrocarbon adsorption, oxidation of intermediates, and product desorption. This is expected to improve the energy efficiency and selectivity of hydrocarbon conversion processes. The project will also explore ways to make electrochemical processes more accessible to students and the public through the use of "electrochemical sounds." The award commenced on March 1, 2024 and is set to conclude on February 28, 2029.