{"304551":{"#nid":"304551","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Awarded $11.2 Million Grant for Energy Frontier Research Center","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech receives an $11.2 million grant from the U.S Department of Energy to fund a multi-institution research center led by The School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE). The Center for Understanding and Control of Acid Gas-Induced Evolution of Materials for Energy (UNCAGE-ME) is one of only 10 new Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to be funded through the federal program and is the first EFRC to be led by Georgia Tech. Krista Walton, a ChBE professor, will serve as director for the center, which aims to advance the understanding of how acid gases interact with wide range of energy-related materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe overall goal of our EFRC is to provide a fundamental understanding of acid gas interactions with a broad class of materials and establish strategies for extending material stability and lifetime,\u201d Walton said. \u201cThese results will ultimately enable us to accelerate materials discovery for large-scale energy applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFive other ChBE professors \u2014 Christopher Jones, Michael Filler, Ryan Lively, Sankar Nair and David Sholl, and Thomas Orlando, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry \u2014 also will serve as principal investigators at the center. The center will involve work at six partner institutions: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tenn.; the Department of Energy\u2019s largest multiprogram science and energy laboratory), the University of Florida, the University of Alabama, the University of Wisconsin, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Washington University in St. Louis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cOur multifaceted approach to this important problem is unique, and one of our proposal reviewers even pointed out that this will be the first research center in the world specifically dedicated to this topic, said Walton.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The research center\u2019s start date is Aug. 1. The awards announced on June 18 are the second round of funding for EFRCs. The 32 projects receiving funding were competitively selected from more than 200 proposals.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the EFRC program, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.energy.gov\/bes\/efrc\/\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Center led by the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering to explore acid gas interactions with broad range of materials"}],"uid":"27869","created_gmt":"2014-06-23 13:41:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:37","author":"Allison Caughey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"304591":{"id":"304591","type":"image","title":"Krista Walton","body":null,"created":"1449244637","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:57:17","changed":"1475895009","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:09","alt":"Krista Walton","file":{"fid":"199664","name":"walton.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/walton_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/walton_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":106855,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/walton_1.jpg?itok=f4yta3Ef"}}},"media_ids":["304591"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"167445","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}