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Sponsors

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)

Project: Towards the Rational Design of Ni & Co free Chalcogen Anion Redox Cathode Materials (Role: Sole PI)

Project: CAREER: Designing Interfaces for Electrochemical Energy Storage: A Mechanistic Perspective (Role: Sole PI)

Project: MRI: Acquisition of a Nanoscale 3D printer for Fundamental and Applied Research at Wayne State University and Southeast Michigan  Role: Co-PI, PI: Dr. Basu (ECE, Wayne State University)

Project: MRI: Acquisition of a Field Emission Transmission Electron Microscope  Role: Co-PI, PI: Dr. Brock (Chemistry, Wayne State university)

Project: Carbon-free and binder-free cathode configurations for high- energy lithium-sulfur batteries (Role: Sole PI)

Project: REU site on Sustainable Manufacturing (REU student support) Role: Senior personal (PI: Dr. Rickli, ISE)

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) / BHAWIN LLC

Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/SBTT)

Project: "Solid-State High Energy Density Batteries" (Role: Sole PI)

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)/
ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY

Project: Dynamically Tunable Nano- Energetics (Role: Sole PI)

ADVANCED ENERGY CONSORTIUM (AEC)

Project: Batch Mode Fabrication and Assembly of High Temperature Microbatteries (Role: Sole PI)

Project: Flexible, integrated nanocomposite energy conversion and storage devices to be applied to low power self- powered sensors (Role: Sole PI)

U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC)

Project: Room temperature superconductivity measurements by bringing alkanes into contact with a graphite surface (Role: Sole PI)

Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF)

US Department of States and Department of Science and Technology-India (Role: Co-PI)

Co-led the international collaboration by building team from IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and WSU. This program has supported PhD students to travel other universities both within US, and outside US and experience diverse cultural and work experience.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

An Investigation of Microstructural Deformation, Strain and Progressive Damage in Li-ion Cells Role: Co-PI, PI: Dr. Newaz (ME, Wayne State Univerisity)

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund(ACSPRF)

Three-dimensional MoS2 Nanostructures for Deep Hydrodesulfurization Catalysis (Role: Sole PI)

Quarkonics Applied Research

Testing and Training in Material Science (Role: PI, Co-PI: Dr. Tan, ME, Wayne State University)

Idaho National Laboratory/ Department of Energy

Novel nano-materials to enable hydrogen generation at intermediate temperatures for manned and unmanned ground vehicles (Role: Sole PI)

Hertly family foundation

Next Generation Li-ion Batteries from Plant/Crop-based Renewable Materials (Role: Sole PI)

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl)

M3 MM Scale Computing GPS Logger
(Role: Sole PI)