Nexus’ seed grant program is in its third year, and continues to demonstrate the value in fostering new collaborations in research between Mines and NREL. Nexus continues to seek out new teams and original ideas to help fund proposal development for both Mines and NREL. Read more about the seed grant program and the new projects here. More links about the PIs and their research will be added.
For this year, a round of 4 awardees were first selected in April. A second round of funding was later announced in parallel with a carbon management workshop. This second round turned out an additional four winners, awarded at the end of June.
For our seed grants, research in all areas is welcome, but this second round was opened particularly to accelerate collaborative efforts within carbon capture, utilization and storage, and was announced at the April 25 CCUS workshop, planned by Nexus and others.
Congratulations to all the PIs and their teams from Mines and NREL. Best wishes for a productive summer, we look forward to hearing more about your work!
Round one awarded projects:
Plasmonic catalysis on metal oxides: toward ambient conversion of CO2 to liquids
Matthew Crane (Mines) and Matthew Beard (NREL)
AttackGen: Generative Synthesis of IoT Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems
Dong Chen (Mines) and Dane Christensen (NREL)
Fundamental understanding of oxygen evolution through atomic control of thin film catalysts
Megan Holtz (Mines) and Mai-Anh Ha (NREL)
An Occupancy Sensing Selection Platform for Occupancy-Driven Smart Building Applications
Gabe Fierro (Mines) and Avijit Saha (NREL)
Round two awarded projects:
Discovery and Development of Oxides as Contact Materials in SOECs through an Integrated Experimental and Computational Approach
Brian Gorman (Mines) and Dave Ginley (NREL)
Reservoir dead pool in the western United States: probability and consequences of a novel extreme event
Adrienne Marshall (Mines) and Stuart Cohen (NREL)
Electrochemical DAC utilizing earth abundant metal oxides
Svitlana Pylypenko (Mines) and Danielle Henckel (NREL)
A Carbon-Negative Structural Material Platform – Demonstrating Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Paulo Tabares Velasco (Mines) and Paul Meyer (NREL)