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Department of Energy awards $1.7 million to FSU and NC A&T for materials research in energy technology

By Staff Report, posted 1 year ago
Dr. Bhoj Gautam, Ph.D. FSU Associate Professor for the Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $1.7 M to Fayetteville State University (FSU) and North Carolina A &T University (NC A&T) through Basic Energy Sciences - Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (BES-RENEW) initiative for the project entitled “Structure Property Relationships in Two-Dimensional MXenes.” 

This award is part of the DOE’s $70 million funding to support research by historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to diversify leadership in the physical sciences. 

This collaborative project between FSU, NC A&T and Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is led by FSU under the direction of Dr. Bhoj Gautam, Associate Professor of Physics from the Department of Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science (DCPMS) as the principal investigator (PI), with Dr. Daniel E. Autrey, Dr. Shubo Han and Dr. Chandra Adhikari from the DCPMS at FSU, Dr. Bishnu Bastakoti from NC A&T and Dr. Binod Rai from SRNL serving as co-principal investigators (co-PIs). 

This project aims to enhance the amount of energy-related materials science research at FSU and NC A&T through collaboration with SRNL and increase the exposure of these institutions to the scientific community to help establish their presence in the energy-technology area. Students will be better prepared for graduate schools in STEM fields and the workforce by training them in the fundamentals of materials synthesis, material processing, photophysics, electrochemistry, magnetism, simulations, and theoretical calculations. The project will increase the participation of underrepresented groups in BES’s research portfolio and advance a diverse, equitable, and inclusive research community.

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