Recent Awards to Chemistry Faculty

The Department of Chemistry would like to recognize the faculty who have recently been awarded funding for projects.
- Jimmy Mays - Development of New Copolymer Architectures for Next Generation Plastic Neutron Scintillators - UT-Battelle - $220,000
- Kelsey Cook - Support Funding - UT-Battelle - ~$37,000
- Jimmy Mays - Poly(Cyclohexadiene)-Based Polyer Electrolyte Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications - US Dept. of Energy - $75,000
- Robert Compton - Electronic and Optical Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes - UT-Battelle - $11,261
- Michael Sepaniak - Microcantilever Transducers: Hydrogen Detection - UT-Battelle - $10,000
- Charles Feigerle (Joint PI) - Theory and Simulations of nanoscale materials - UT-Battelle - $74,774
- David Baker - Scaleup and Delivery of DCB-3503, a Potent Antitumor Agent - UT Research Foundation - $15,000
- Mark Dadmun, Jimmy Mays - Synthesis, Assembly, and Nanoscale Characterization of Confined, Conjugated, and Charged Polymer - UT-Battelle - ~$30,000
- S. Michael Kilbey & Craig Barnes - Structural and Frictional Interactions between Microphase Segregated, Multi-Component Polymer Brushes - ACS - $90,000
- Jimmy Mays - Advanced Tube Theories for Predicting the Rheology of Model and Commercial Polymers - University of Michigan - $32,017
- Jimmy Mays - Materials World Network: Molecular Engineering of Polymers for Processing Performance and Properties - Virginia Tech, Office of Sponsored Programs - $80,000
- Ziling (Ben) Xue - Probing Novel Reactivities fo Transition Metal Complexes and Mechanistic Pathways in the Formation of Microelectric Materials - NSF - $322,000
- S. Michael Kilbey - Synthesis, Structure, and Swelling of Polyelectrolyte Brushes - NSF - $200,000
- Janice Musfeldt - Spectroscopic Investigations of Complex Magnetic and Electronic Materials - DOE - $97,450
- Mark Dadmun - Synthesis, Assembly, and Nanoscale Characterization of Confined, Conjugated, and Charged Polymer Brushes for Advanced Energy Systems - UT-Battelle/ORNL - $20,000
- David C. Baker - Hydration Drive Processes in Bioenergy - UT-Battelle/ORNL - $20,500
- Frank Vogt - Chemometric and Statistical Modelling of Spectroscopic Analysis for Measuring Cotton Properties - USDA - $33,500
- Kelsey Cook - ASMS - American Society for Mass Spectrometry - $2550
- Robert Harrison & RJ Hinde - Cyber-Infrastructure and Research Facilities:Chemical Computations on Future High-End Computers - NSF - $170,000
- Ziling Xue - Synthesis, Characterization and Physical Properties of Inorganic Materials - UT-Battelle/ORNL - $4261

