New $25M KAUST Center in novel nanomaterials for energy-related platforms awarded to Cornell University (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
May 1, 2008Professors Lynden Archer (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and Emmanuel Giannelis (Materials Science and Engineering) have been awarded a $25 million grant funded by the Global Research Partnership of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology for a new interdisciplinary scientific research and education center. The KAUST-Cornell University Center for Research and Education will focus on applications and fundamental studies of novel organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials developed at Cornell. The Center will study these materials as new platforms for carbon dioxide capture and sequestration, desalination of water, production of gas and oil, and solar energy conversion. This program will feature the use of a new class of nanostructured ionic materials (NIMS) and their uncharged counterparts (NOHMS) which were discovered and developed at Cornell. The complete announcement on this award can be found at http://www.kaust.edu.sa/news-releases/centers-08.aspx
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