After a careful and extensive reviewing process, the following five proposals were selected for funding for a 1-year performance period.
Category 1 (3 or more faculty investigators):
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“Understanding the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer for the Modeling of Offshore Wind Turbine Farms”
- PI: Brad Marston (Department of Physics)
- co-PI: Kenny Breuer (School of Engineering)
- co-PI: Baylor Fox-Kemper (Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences)
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“Blocking Lithium Metal Dendrites with Piezoelectric Solid Polymer Electrolytes”
- PI: Brian Sheldon (School of Engineering)
- co-PI: Senghyun Kim (School of Engineering)
- co-PI: Angus Kingon (School of Engineering)
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“Bullet-Proof Rigid-Rod Polymer to Block Dendrite Penetration in Batteries”
- PI: Shouheng Sun (Department of Chemistry)
- co-PI: Emily Sprague-Klein (Department of Chemistry)
- co-PI: Yue Qi (School of Engineering)
Category 2 (1 to 2 faculty investigators):
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“Chemo-Mechanics and Kinetics of Reaction-Driven Cracking During Carbon Mineralization”
- PI: Greg Hirth (Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences)
- co-PI: Stephen Parman (Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences)
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“Osmotic Energy Conversion in Nanofluidic Arrays of Hexagonal Boron Nitride”
- PI: Matthias Kuehne ( Department of Physics)