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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 between thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties in high temperature solid materials.
Battery Research at BU – Press Article
Check out this The Brink article about battery research at BU, highlighting research from BEST lab members Prof. Emily Ryan, Prof. Jörg Werner, and Prof. Sean Lubner: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/the-race-to-a-battery-powered-future/
Joerg Werner receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
BEST Lab co-founder Joerg Werner was selected as part of the 2023 DARPA YFA cohort. The groups is looking forward to many exciting discoveries in this research endeavor that combines their micro-architected electrodes with their ultrathin polymer coatings to drive towards tailored multiscale sorbents that are architected from the molecular chemistry to the mesoscopic structure to the macroscopic shape.
Check out this brief article by BU's College of Engineering: https://www.bu.edu/eng/2023/11/27/clearing-the-air/
Review article published on nano-architected materials in EES
Prof. Werner and collaborators published a review article in Small Science on nano-architected materials in electrochemical energy storage systems such as batteries and supercapacitors. The review focuses on nanostructure-performance relationships that are obtained with the help of block copolymer self-assembly to architect functional materials with tunable structural parameters such as pore size, material thickness, and dimensionality on the nanometer scale. We further identify gaps in nanomaterials research for battery electrodes and discuss the need for hierarchical materials to include macroscopic mass transfer in electrode design considerations.
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.