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/
Mobile Air Quality Monitoring Project Highlighted in The Brink
Research by Prof. Emily Ryan and a BU Mechanical Engineering senior design group was the focus of a video and article in BU’s The Brink.
Ryan and Sharifzadeh Labs Publish Research on Dendrite Nucleation in Lithium Batteries
Computational research by Ph.D. candidate Madison Morey and colleagues was published in the Journal of Energy Storage.
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 […]
Just Published – Prospective on methods of design of experiments for limited data scenarios in materials design and engineering
Prof. Ryan and her collaborators have just published a new prospective on design of experiments in materials science and engineering in MRS Communications.
Prof Ryan Featured in “Let’s Talk Chemistry” Podcast
Prof. Ryan was interviewed for an episode of the Let’s Talk Chemistry podcast about her research in sustainability and how she got into academia.
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!
New NSF Funding to study Electrodeposition Stability
Prof. Emily Ryan just received funding from NSF to study electrodeposition stability in collaboration with researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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.