Rogachev, Mandal, Segre Earn WISER Seed Grant

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Illinois Tech鈥檚 Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has announced the FY 2019 /2020 Cross-disciplinary Seed Funding Grants (CSFG) program award winners. Initiated in 2009, the CSFG program is designed to provide funding for a one-year period to support and enhance new and innovative cross-disciplinary research concepts that are expected to attract major external funding in areas of national interest related to energy and sustainability. The following proposal topics and researchers were selected for funding:

PI: Mohammad Asadi (ChBE), Co-PIs: Wei Chen (MMAE), Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Dept., University of Illinois-电车无码
Project Title: 鈥淒eveloping Bi-Functional Heteratom Catalysts for High Efficiency and Long Cycle Life Lithium-Air Batteries鈥

PI: Baisravan Homchaudhuri (MMAE), Co-PI: Tomoko Ichikawa (ID)
Project Title: 鈥淒river Assistance Control and Human-Automation Interface Design for Energy-Efficient Semi-Automated Hybrid Electric Vehicles鈥

PI: Braja Mandal (CHEM), Co-PI: Leon Shaw (MMAE)
Project Title: 鈥淣ovel Polymer Electrolytes to Prevent Dendrites in Lithium Metal Batteries鈥

PI: Andrey Rogachev (CHEM), Co-PIs: Braja Mandal (CHEM), Carlo Segre (PHYS)
Project Title: 鈥淭heoretically Pre-Designed Supercapacitors with the Energy Density of Li-Ion Batteries鈥

With the addition of these new awards, a total of 28 projects will have been conducted to-date under the auspices of the WISER CSFG Program. The 2019 projects are funded for one year and will be completed by May 31, 2020.