Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Projects and Grants

Projects per year 1985 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2020 2021 2022 2023 2028

• 2 Not started
• 161 Active
• 759 Finished

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  Physical model of the bacteria nucleoid

  Dorfman, K. & Cheng, X.

  NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH)

  12/1/23 → 2/28/24

  Project: Research project

  • bacterium 100%

• New Physics in Artificial Spin Ice via Materials Innovation

  Leighton, C. & Schiffer, P.

  National Science Foundation

  8/1/23 → 2/29/24

  Project: Research project

  • ice 100%
  • physics 56%
  • students 27%
  • ecosystems 18%
  • ferromagnetic materials 16%

• STTR Phase I: Effect of Alcohol Concentration on Lactic to Acrylic Selectivity and Deactivation Rate over Na-FAU Zeolite Catalysts

  Dauenhauer, P. J. & Nicholas, C. P.

  National Science Foundation

  4/1/23 → 3/31/24

  Project: Research project

  • alcohol 100%
  • catalyst 87%
  • acid 82%
  • zeolite 80%
  • methanol 49%

• Unique capability for synthesis and characterization of defect-managed oxide films and nanostructures

  Jalan, B. & James, R. D.

  USDOD AIR FORCE

  2/15/23 → 2/14/24

  Project: Research project

  • oxide films 100%
  • synthesis 80%
  • characterization 61%
  • defects 61%

• Evaluation of Microcarriers

  Reineke, T. M. & Azarin, S. M.

  INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC

  2/9/23 → 2/8/24

  Project: Research project

• IUCRC Planning Grant New York University: Center for Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing Using Sustainable Electrification (DC-MUSE)

  Dvorkin, Y. Y. V., Taylor, A., Aydil, E. S., Modestino, M. A. & Hartman, R. L.

  National Science Foundation

  2/1/23 → 1/31/24

  Project: Research project

  • electrification 100%
  • manufacturing 78%
  • planning 42%
  • chemical industry 41%
  • primary sector 31%

• Characterization of Film Formation

  Francis, L. F.

  EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY

  8/1/22 → 2/15/24

  Project: Research project

  • characterization 100%

• Mistletoe Research Fellowship

  Dauenhauer, P. J.

  MOMENTAL FOUNDATION

  7/1/22 → 6/30/23

  Project: Research project

  • Mistletoe 100%

• Sustainable biobased acrylic process from corn-derived calcium and ammonium lactate feedstocks over amine-doped FAU zeolites

  Dauenhauer, P. J.

  LAKRIL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

  7/1/22 → 9/30/23

  Project: Research project

  • Zeolites 100%
  • Amines 99%
  • Acrylics 95%
  • Calcium 90%
  • Feedstocks 83%

• Potassium Exchanged Zeolites for Improved Lactic to Acrylic Selectivity and Deactivation Rate for Decarbonization of the Acrylic Acid Industry

  Dauenhauer, P. J.

  LAKRIL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (USDOE)

  6/27/22 → 6/26/23

  Project: Research project

  • Acrylics 100%
  • Decarbonization 61%
  • Milk 57%
  • Potassium 53%
  • Zeolites 52%

• Dense Nanolipid Fluids (DNLFs) for Delivery of Drugs with Poor Bioavailability : Synthesis, Manufacturing and Drug Properties

  Marti, J. J., Kandimalla, K. K., McCormick, A. & Zasadzinski, J. A.

  SUPERIOR NANO LLC, THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

  6/15/22 → 5/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • Bioavailability 100%
  • Drug 54%

• CIMSEPP: Center for Integration of Materials Science and Engineering for Pharmaceutical Products

  Mara, N. A.

  NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

  6/1/22 → 3/31/24

  Project: Research project

  • Materials science 100%
  • Drug products 89%

• 2022 GRC on Granular Matter: Particulate Systems Across Scales: From Colloidal Science to Geophysical Flows

  Cheng, X. & Hill, K. M.

  National Science Foundation

  6/1/22 → 5/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • particulate matter 100%
  • science 92%
  • student 46%
  • physics 45%
  • material 22%

• Computational design CMAS-resistant multiphase thermal and environmental barrier

  Poerschke, D. L.

  QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC, Nat'l Aeronautics & Space Admin. (NASA)

  4/18/22 → 4/17/24

  Project: Research project

• Sustainable Polyesters from Corn as Tomorrow's Advanced Plastics (Year 4 Work Plan)

  Hillmyer, M. A., Bates, F. S., Dauenhauer, P. J., Ellison, C. J., Hoye, T. R., Tonks, I. & Wissinger, J. E.

  MN CORN RES AND PROMOTION COUN

  4/1/22 → 8/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • maize 100%
  • plastic 86%
  • plan 76%

• Long Duration Energy Storage

  Daoutidis, P.

  STATE OF MINNESOTA, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (USDOE)

  3/1/22 → 6/30/22

  Project: Research project

  • energy storage 100%

• Engineered Binding Ligands

  Hackel, B.

  AKTIS ONCOLOGY, INC

  2/8/22 → 7/31/22

  Project: Research project

• Engineered Tumor Targeting

  Hackel, B.

  MRB BIOTHERAPEUTICS

  1/18/22 → 4/29/24

  Project: Research project

  • tumors 100%

• Multiscale, Multiphysical Phenomena in Arterial Remodeling

  Bazzi, M. S.

  AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, INC

  1/1/22 → 12/31/23

  Project: Research project

• Modeling CdTe solar cells

  Ferry, V. E.

  FIRST SOLAR

  11/1/21 → 8/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • Solar Cell 100%

• Understanding the Sites, Kinetics, Pathways and Mechanisms that Control the Electrocatalytic Conversion of CO2 and CO to C1 and C2 Products over Cu, and CuAg Alloys in Alkaline Media.

  Neurock, M.

  SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS

  10/1/21 → 4/30/24

  Project: Research project

  • kinetics 100%
  • product 78%

• Subaward from Euclid

  Derby, J. J.

  EUCLID TECHLABS, LLC, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (USDOE)

  10/1/21 → 8/28/22

  Project: Research project

  • Euclid 100%

• EAGER: Quantifying the error landscape of deep neural networks

  Martiniani, S.

  THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

  9/15/21 → 8/31/23

  Project: Research project

• EAGER: Quantifying the error landscape of deep neural networks

  Martiniani, S.

  National Science Foundation

  9/15/21 → 7/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • learning 100%
  • mechanics 56%
  • parameter 42%
  • landscape structure 36%
  • basin 30%

• Bismuth Molybdates as Catalysts for Selective Hydrogen Combustion

  Bhan, A.

  AMER CHEM SOC PETROLEUM RESEARCH FUND

  9/1/21 → 8/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • Molybdate 100%
  • Hydrogen 47%
  • Catalyst 38%

• Concurrent Design of a Multimaterial Niobium Alloy System for Next-generation Turbine Applications

  Poerschke, D. L.

  QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC, USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency

  8/30/21 → 9/1/23

  Project: Research project

  • Turbines 46%

• NREL Subcontract SUB-2021-10718

  Bhan, A.

  NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (USDOE)

  8/20/21 → 8/19/22

  Project: Research project

• Ferroelectric-Controlled Adsorbates for Carbon Dioxide Conversion

  Dauenhauer, P. J. & Birol, T.

  CASALE SA

  8/1/21 → 8/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • Adsorbates 100%
  • Ferroelectric materials 87%
  • Carbon dioxide 61%

• Understanding drug delivery through an integrated barcoding approach

  Boehnke, N.

  National Cancer Institute

  7/1/21 → 6/30/23

  Project: Research project

  • Nanoparticles 100%
  • Neoplasms 37%
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations 34%
  • Mentors 19%
  • Materials Science 16%

• Tunable, narrow molecular weight distribution DNA for nanopore sequencing

  Dorfman, K.

  National Human Genome Research Institute

  6/1/21 → 5/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • Nanopores 100%
  • Molecular weight 75%
  • Molecular weight distribution 74%
  • DNA 34%
  • Genomics 23%

• Computational design of CMAS-resistant multiphase thermal and environmental barrier coatings for CMCs

  Poerschke, D. L.

  QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC, Nat'l Aeronautics & Space Admin. (NASA)

  5/19/21 → 11/19/21

  Project: Research project

  • Coatings 100%
  • Hot Temperature 64%

• Sustainable Polyesters from Corn as Tomorrow's Advanced Plastics (Year 3 Work Plan)

  Hillmyer, M. A., Bates, F. S., Dauenhauer, P. J., Ellison, C. J., Hoye, T. R. & Tonks, I.

  MN CORN RES AND PROMOTION COUN

  4/1/21 → 7/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • maize 100%
  • plastic 86%
  • plan 76%

• Quantitative analysis of risk factors in an engineered tissue model of Alzheimer's Disease (Sarkar)

  Azarin, S. M.

  NIH NAT'L INSTITUTE ON AGING (NIA)

  4/1/21 → 3/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • Alzheimer Disease 100%

• Elucidating mechanisms of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease using a molecularly and cellularly tunable in vitro model

  Azarin, S. M.

  National Institute on Aging

  4/1/21 → 3/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • Blood-Brain Barrier 100%
  • Alzheimer Disease 43%
  • Alleles 42%
  • Apolipoprotein E4 33%
  • In Vitro Techniques 26%

• GOALI: Coating of Rotating Discrete Objects

  Kumar, S. & Bhave, A. A. V.

  National Science Foundation

  4/1/21 → 3/31/24

  Project: Research project

  • coatings 100%
  • industries 82%
  • liquids 79%
  • manufacturing 41%
  • finite difference theory 33%

• Dynamics of granular raft on a moving interface: assembly, structure, and property

  Lee, S. & Cheng, X.

  National Science Foundation

  1/1/21 → 12/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • rafts 100%
  • assembly 41%
  • fluids 29%
  • students 9%
  • floating 8%

• Engineering Birefringence in Organic Semiconductor Materials

  Holmes, R. J. & Frisbie, D.

  META PLATFORMS, INC

  12/15/20 → 4/30/23

  Project: Research project

  • organic semiconductors 100%
  • birefringence 80%
  • engineering 65%

• Organic material mechanical property characterization

  Mara, N. A.

  NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING, SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES

  12/14/20 → 9/30/21

  Project: Research project

  • Mechanical Properties 100%
  • Characterization 53%

• Advanced Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of High-Performance Printed Electronics

  Francis, L. F., Kumar, S. & Frisbie, D.

  National Science Foundation

  12/1/20 → 11/30/23

  Project: Research project

  • Electronic equipment 100%
  • Flexible electronics 41%
  • Fluid mechanics 35%
  • Lithography 32%
  • Ink 32%

• Experimental study of the conformation and dynamics of active colloidal polymers

  Cheng, X.

  National Science Foundation

  11/1/20 → 10/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • polymers 100%
  • Janus 61%
  • fluids 44%
  • deoxyribonucleic acid 40%
  • cargo 19%

• Materials Design of Correlated Metals as Novel Transparent Conductors

  Birol, T.

  PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

  10/1/20 → 9/30/21

  Project: Research project

  • conductors 100%
  • metals 62%

• Data CI Pilot: CI-Based Collaborative Development of Data-Driven Interatomic Potentials for Predictive Molecular Simulations

  Tadmor, E. B., Elliott, R. S. & Martiniani, S.

  National Science Foundation

  10/1/20 → 9/30/23

  Project: Research project

  • Transition metals 100%
  • Information science 92%
  • Nanostructures 83%
  • Phase transitions 70%
  • Computer science 68%

• Electronically Controlled Electrocatalysts

  Frisbie, D. & Dauenhauer, P. J.

  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (USDOE)

  9/1/20 → 8/31/23

  Project: Research project

• Natural Killer Cell Mediated Immunotherapy for Hormone Receptor Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

  Sachdev, D., Beckwith, H. C., Felices, M. & Hackel, B.

  MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH)

  9/1/20 → 8/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • immunotherapy 100%
  • hormone receptors 94%
  • natural killer cells 94%
  • breast neoplasms 86%

• Measuring the pressure and shear stress distribution of impacting liquid drops

  Cheng, X.

  AMER CHEM SOC PETROLEUM RESEARCH FUND

  9/1/20 → 8/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • stress distribution 100%
  • shear stress 97%

• Contact Enhancement Interlayers for OLEDs: Development of Industrially Compatible Chemistry for Eliminating Deposition Damage to TPBi Electron Transport Layers (ETLs)

  Holmes, R. J.

  LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

  8/15/20 → 7/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • interlayers 100%
  • chemistry 94%
  • damage 78%
  • augmentation 66%
  • electrons 46%

• PFI-TT: Development of a low-cost OLED via surface chemistry

  Holmes, R. J. & Ciszek, J. W.

  National Science Foundation

  8/15/20 → 7/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • light emitting diodes 100%
  • chemistry 60%
  • costs 44%
  • damage 31%
  • manufacturing 24%

• Collaborative Proposal: Impact of a colloidal suspension droplet: suspension flows at extreme shear rates

  Cheng, X.

  THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

  8/1/20 → 2/29/24

  Project: Research project

  • colloids 100%
  • proposals 95%
  • shear 69%

• Quantitative Analysis of Molecular Conductance in Molecular Junctions

  Frisbie, D.

  THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

  8/1/20 → 7/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • Conductance 100%

• Collaborative Proposal: Impact of a colloidal suspension droplet: suspension flows at extreme shear rates

  Cheng, X.

  National Science Foundation

  8/1/20 → 7/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • colloids 100%
  • proposals 84%
  • shear 65%
  • fluids 48%
  • food processing 35%