Seed Grant Recipient | Advanced Energy Institute | SIU

FY24 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2023- June 30, 2024

• Grant Project: An augmented framework for urban building energy modeling (UBEM) integrating dynamic local determinants

        PI: Dr. Mehdi Ashayeri, School of Architecture, College of Arts and Media

• Grant Project: Microbially Enhanced Extraction of Rare Earth Elements from Coal Mining Wastes

        PI: Dr. Liliana Lefticariu, School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, Geology Department

• Grant Project: Energy- efficient system/ signal designs and resource allocation algorithms for integrated communications, sensing, and computing

        PI: Dr. Gayan L. Aruma Baduge, School of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering

• Grant Project: Genetically Engineered Micro-organisms for Converting Methane into Liquid Feedstocks of Acetic Acid Fuel Cells

        PI: Dr. Divya Prakash, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences

• Grant Project: Genetically Engineered Micro-organisms for Converting Methane into Liquid Feedstocks of Acetic Acid Fuel Cells

        PI: Dr. Saikat Talapatra, School of Physics & Applied Physics

FY23 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2022- June 30, 2023

• Grant Project: Constructing Constructive Dialogs About a sustainable energy Transition

        PI: Dr. Kristin F. Hurst, School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, Geography & Environmental Resources

• Grant Project: Experimental-supported In-Silico Engineering of PET-eating Enzymes

        PI: Dr. Thushari Jayasekera, School of Physics & Applied Physics

• Grant Project: Magneto-Chiral Optical Spectroscopy of Chiral/Organic/Organometallic Molecular Single Crystal for Clean Energy Conversion

        PI: Dr. Bumsu Lee, School of Physics & Applied Physics

FY22 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2021- June 30, 2022

• Grant Project: Boosting the Energy Efficiency of Wireless Communications via Extremely Large Antenna Arrays

        PI: Gayan L. Aruma Baduge, Electrical, Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

• Grant Project: Novel Porous Coordination Frameworks for Solar Energy Conversions

        PI: Pravas Deria, Chemical and Biomolecular Science

• Grant Project: Developing Low- Cost, All- Soluble and All- Iron Redox Flow Batteries for the Grid-Scale Storage of Energy

        PI: Dr. Yong Gao, Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences/Dr. Chao Lu, Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering

• Grant Project: An investigation into the effects of hydro-seuestered biological/synthetic carbon polymers and conversion by subsurface microorganisms

        PI: Dr. Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm/Lahiru Jayakody - Microbiology

FY20 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2019- June30, 2020 (Covid-19 extension approved through August 2020)

• Grant Project: Development of Energy- sustainable Internet of Things

        PI: Kang Chen/Ning Weng- Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Grant Project: Heterogeneous photocatalytic transformation of

        PI: Jai Liu/Boyd Goodson- Civil and Environmental Engineering

FY19 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2018- June 30, 2019

• Grant Porject: Design of Gallium Oxide based Wireless Smart Sensor Platform for in-situ Oxygen Monitoring in Coal- Fired Power Plants

        PI: Chao Lu/ Shaihk Ahmed- ECE

• Grant Project: Predictive Biosensor for CO2 conversion to methane and related industrial useful molecules

        PI: Farahan Chowdhury (MEEP) Sivakumar/ Kohli (Physics)

FY18 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2017- June 30, 2018

• Grant Project: Social Media Footprints of Public Perception on Energy Issues and Their Policy Implications

        PI: Ruopo, Li – Geography

• Grant Project: Investigations of atomic layers of MoS2 and doped MoS2 for Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

        PI: Dipanjan Mazumdar- Talapatra/Jayasekara – Physics

FY 17 Energy Boost Seed Grant

Period: July 1, 2016- June 30, 2017

• Grant Project: Vibration Energy Harvesting Devices for Simultaneously Powering Multiple Electrical Loads

        PI: Christopher G. Cooley/ Chai/ Chu 453-7007

• Grant Project: Hybrid Porous Materials Relevant for Selective Capture and Catalytic and Electrocatalytic Conversion of Greenhouse

        PI: P. Deria- Chemical and Biomolecular Science

• Grant Project: Exploring Electrochemically Assisted Methane Production from Coal by Microbial Electrolysis Cell Systems

        PI: Mohtashim Shamsi and Lanna Liang