Funding Record

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The research efforts of Dr. Sepaniak’s prior groups has been support in part by

the U.S. Department of Energy (7 grants with Basic Energy Sciences and 2 grants as part of the Environmental Management Science Program),

the National Science Foundation (one research grant and several grants to conduct summer and sabbatical programs),

the ACS PRF (2 grants),

the National Institutes of Health (one grant),

DARPA (one grant),

EPA (one grant),

NASA (one grant),

and

Industrial and ORNL Support (greater than a dozen awards);

*Recent funding includes:*	Funding Date
“Microcantilever Transducers: Next generation of Gas Phase Diagnostics” DOE-PDRD, $270,000	10/04-10/09
“Integrated Microfluidic System for Bioluminescent Bioreporting, Separations, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Microcantilever Transducer Evaluation of EDCs” EPA, $590,000	11/05-11/09
“Nanomechanical MCA sensing of landfill volatile siloxanes - Natural gas Project” DOE-National Transportation Research Center proposal $113K	7/07-12/10
“Microcantilever transducers: hydrogen detection” ORNL (DOE), $80K	10/07-7/11
“Integrated nanomechanical - fluidic systems with deterministically nanostructured surfaces” CNMS Research proposal, Instrument Time Value ~ $50K	2/08-1/09
“Rational Design of Metal-Polymer Nanostructures as Substrates for SERS Analysis” CNMS Research Proposal, Instrument Time Value ~ $50K	7/07-7/09
“Relationship between morphology and nano-mechanical responses of Pd-MC sensors for hydrogen” CNMS Research Proposal, Instrument Time Value ~ $50K	3/10-2/11
“Integrating Electrokinetic Separations with Surface Sampling MS” ORNL, $72K	2/08-1/11
“Synthesis of Noble Metal Nanoparticles as Advanced Substrates” ORNL, $21K	4/08-3/10

Recent Submissions:

“Imaging of antibodies-laden tissues” Abbott Labs, $90K (Pending)

“Functionalized Microcantilever Array Sensors: Nanomechanical Mimics of Synergistic Biological Systems” NSF Biosensors call PD 10-7909, $597K (Pending)

“Biomedically-Inspired Fabrication of Platforms for Pathogen Diagnostics” Gates Foundation, $100K, Fall 2009 (Pending)

“Two new nanofabrication proposals for access to ORNL CNMS (Pending)