Eastern Washington University assistant professor Yao Houndonougbo, from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is part of a research team from multiple universities that has received an Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) award from the federal government.
The grant is for $2.3 million a year over five years, and was announced by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.
The team of researchers, including Houndonougbo, will try to acquire a fundamental understanding and control of nanoscale material architectures for conversion of solar energy to electricity, electrical energy storage and separating/capturing greenhouse gases.
Other members of the research team come from the University of Kansas, University of California-Davis and UCLA – the latter of which will be home to one of the 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs). The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations and private firms is establishing the EFRCs, which will pursue advanced scientific research on energy, across the nation.
The 46 EFRCs were selected from a pool of some 260 applications received in response to a solicitation issued by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science in 2008. Selection was based on a rigorous merit review process utilizing outside panels composed of scientific experts.
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