Several IAPC Affiliates selected for funding by the Energy Center in its sixteenth annual grant competition. To learn more go to 2022/2023 Energy Research Grants (Cycle 16)
2022/23 grants – Cycle 16
Diamond-Coated Metallic Structures for Molten-Salt Thermal-Energy Storage Systems
Principal Investigator: Bai Cui, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, IAPC Affiliate
Co-PI: Yongfeng Lu, Electrical & Computer Engineering
PI web page: https://engineering.unl.edu/mme/faculty/bai-cui/
Abstract: 20-702-Bai-Cui-abstract
Protein Fibers from Sorghum Distillers Grains for Value-Additions to Sorghum-Based Biofuel Industry
Principal Investigator: Yiqi Yang, Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, IAPC Affiliate
Co-PI: Bingnan Mu, Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design
PI web page: https://cehs.unl.edu/tmfd/faculty/yiqi-yang/
Abstract: 20-705-Yiqi-Yang-abstract
Continuing Cycle 15 Projects (2nd year funding)
Optimization of Biosoprene Production from Renewable and Captured Carbon
Feedstocks
Principal Investigator: Nicole Buan, Biochemistry, IAPC Affiliate
Co-PIs: Karrie Weber, School of Biological Sciences
PI web page: https://biochem.unl.edu/nicole-buan
Abstract: Nicole Buan abstract
- Anaerobic-Production-of-Isoprene-by-Engineered-Methanosarcina-Species-Archaea
- Charting-a-New-Frontier-Integrating-Mathematical-Modeling-in-Complex-Biological-Systems-from-Molecules-to-Ecosystems
- Isoprene-Production-from-Municipal-Wastewater-Biosolids-by-Engineered-Archaeaon-Methanosarcina-Acetivorans
- Reintegrating-Biology-Through-the-Nexus-of-Energy-Information-and-Matter.pdf
