Initiative for Sustainable Energy

ISE Seed Research Awards for 2023-2024

The Initiative for Sustainable Energy (ISE) announced the inaugural Seed Research Awards for 2023. This represents a total investment of over $400,000 by Brown University in early-stage innovative faculty research with the potential to attract significant external funding, and have a broad impact in the area of sustainable energy.

1. Category 1 (3 or more faculty investigators):

Understanding the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer for the Modeling of Offshore Wind Turbine Farms” 

       - PI: Brad Marston (Department of Physics); co-PI: Kenneth Breuer (School of Engineering); co-PI: Baylor Fox-Kemper (Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences)

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)

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)

2. Category 2 (1 to 2 faculty investigators):

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)

Osmotic Energy Conversion in Nanofluidic Arrays of Hexagonal Boron Nitride

     - PI: Matthias Kuehne ( Department of Physics)