Funding for research in the BEST Lab comes from federal, foundation, and industrial sponsors. Recent funded projects include:<\/p>\n
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Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Joerg Werner<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Multiscale material development for the efficient direct air capture and release of carbon dioxide<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Emily Ryan<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Kevin Laine (BU School of Public Health), Jeff Geddes (Department of Earth and Environment)<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> BU Campus Climate Lab<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Development of low cost, mobile air pollution sensor packs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Emily Ryan<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Daniel Sharon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> NSF Electrochemical Systems<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Computational-experimental investigation of electrodeposition stability for batteries.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Chuanhua Duan<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> Semiconductor Research Corporation<\/span><\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Measure and understand wet etching reactions in nanoconfinements (WERIN) as well as to develop new strategies to improve the etching rate, specificity and uniformity of WERIN<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Chuanhua Duan<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Ming-Chang LU (National Taiwan Univ.)<\/span><\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan)<\/span><\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Using micro\/nanostructured surface to enhance gas\/liquid transport on gas evolving electrodes<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Joerg Werner<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Keith Brown<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> NSF Electrochemical Systems<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Development of solid polymer electrolytes with electrochemically crosslinkable end-groups to obtain conformal ultrathin electrode coatings. Research includes the development of a high throughput electrodeposition characterization system.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Sean Lubner<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Joerg Werner<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> BU College of Engineering and Institute for Global Sustainability<\/span><\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Probe and understand the rate-limiting mass transport phenomena in thick and architected low-tortuosity battery electrodes with thermal-wave imaging.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Srikanth Gopalan<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Uday Pal and Soumendra Basu<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> DOE EERE<\/span><\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Exploring reversible electrodes in solid oxide electrochemical cells for energy storage.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Soumendra Basu<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Srikanth Gopalan, Uday Pal<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> Nissan North America<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Protective coatings on porous substrates by AC Electrophoretic Deposition and Atomic Layer Deposition<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Joerg Werner<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Keith Brown<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> Toyota Research Institute<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Evaluating high-throughput thin film deposition and characterization as a proxy for bulk solid battery electrolyte materials discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Uday Pal<\/span><\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> WPI<\/span><\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> NSF CMMI<\/span><\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> New solar silicon production technology based on molten salt electrolysis<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> James Chapman<\/span><\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> NA<\/span><\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> NSF ACCESS: Accelerate<\/span><\/p>\n Amount:<\/strong> 2,500,000 core-hours<\/span><\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Thermodynamic stability of HEA for NH3 catalyst materials<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Emily Ryan<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> NA<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> NSF Electrochemical Systems<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Electrode-electrolyte interfaces in lithium batteries<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Emily Ryan<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Jillian Goldfarb (Cornell University)<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> NSF Process Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Machine learning informed catalysts design for upgrading biofuels<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Emily Ryan<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Pirooz Vakili (BU), Jillian Goldfarb (Cornell University)<\/p>\n Sponsor:<\/strong> NSF Design of Engineering Materials Systems<\/p>\n Topic:<\/strong> Integrated computational-experimental-data science design paradigm for porous materials<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Principal Investigator:<\/strong> Emily Ryan<\/p>\n Co-Principal Investigators:<\/strong> Gary Moore (Arizona State University), Matthew Green (Arizona State University)<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
Urban Air Pollution Monitoring<\/a><\/h3>\n
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NSF-BSF: Physical-Chemical Stabilization of Electrodeposition through Fundamental Interfacial Studies<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Exploring Wet Etching Reactions in Nanoconfinements<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Engineering micro\/nanostructures on gas-involving electrodes for high-efficiency clean energy production<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Engineering and Evaluating the End-Group Assisted Electrodeposition of Conformal Polymer Electrolytes for Ultrathin-Film Batteries<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Mapping Microscale Lithium Transport Dynamics Inside Architected Electrodes to Co-Optimize Battery Energy Density and Power Density<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Advanced Coatings for Energy Devices<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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An Accelerated Workflow for the Discovery of Block Copolymer Conformal Thin Electrolyte Films<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Production of Solar Quality Silicon by Model-Driven Molten Salt Electrolysis<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Predicting the Stability of High Entropy Alloys Using High Throughput Density Functional Theory Calculations<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Mesoscopic Modeling of Complex Chemical-Physical Processes at Interfaces<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Collaborative Research: Integrated Biorefinery for Pyrolysis Biofuels and Biotemplated Nanomaterials<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Systematic Design of Porous Heterogeneous Hierarchical Materials and Structures to Optimize Reactive Transport Processes<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Electrocatalytic Activation and Cycling of Moisture-Swing Direct Air Capture Materials<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n