BU Team Awarded 5 year, $3 million NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Grant

Congratulations to Malika Jeffries-EL, Emily Ryan, and James Chapman who are all part of the team on a new NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) award to train students in interdisciplinary research on electrochemical and photochemical energy conversion and generation systems. Read more about the award on BU’s The Brink.

Gopalan, Basu, Pal awarded $5 million grant on green hydrogen

A trio of BU mechanical engineering professors have landed a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to lead a collaborative project to solve crucial elements of the world’s renewable energy puzzle, by making green hydrogen. Read more here: https://www.bu.edu/eng/2024/06/05/abundantly-clear/

Sean Lubner awarded YIP

Professor Sean Lubner was awarded a prestigious YIP from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. His project, titled “Investigating Coupled Thermal, Mechanical, and Electrical Phenomena in High-Temperature Materials using Thermal Wave Sensors”, focuses on the use of thermal wave sensors (TWS) and a technique Lubner codeveloped to use them to comprehensively explore and understand the intricate interplay […]

Zhaoyi successfully defended his MS thesis!

We congratulate Zhaoyi Zheng for successfully defending his MS thesis titled “TWO-COMPONENT ELECTROCHEMICAL COUPLING REACTION FOR END-GROUP ASSISTED ELECTRODEPOSITION OF ULTRATHIN POLYMER FILMS”. Great job Zhaoyi and we are looking forward to your continued research progress as a PhD student in the Werner Lab!

BU paper wins LMD/EPD Energy Best Paper Award – Professional Award

A paper titled “Quantifying the relationship between microstructure and performance in gadolinium-doped ceria infiltrated Ni/YSZ symmetric cells” by Jillian Rix Mulligan, Srikanth Gopalan, Uday Pal, and Soumendra Basu, published in JOM, 74, 4527–4532 (2022), won the TMS LMD/EPD Best Paper Award – Professional.