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FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Leads $2.25 Million DOE Effort to Enable Clean Hydrogen Energy
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Tech Talent: FSU researchers have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
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FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Leads $2.25 Million DOE Effort to Enable Clean Hydrogen Energy | FAMU-FSU COE
Assistant Professor Brandon Krick leads a multi-million dollar grant to not only advance hydrogen as an energy source, but also train the engineering workforce needed to sustain a burgeoning industry.
The college received approximately $1.7 of a $2.25 million award from the DOE through Florida A&M University (FAMU) for the project.
The research team includes FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University and the Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory at Iowa State University.
Hydrogen is one of the clean technologies the U.S. and other countries are pursuing.
They plan to build a one-of-a-kind system where they characterize material properties in the hydrogen environment.
A big part of the project involves training and research opportunities for the next-generation sciences workforce.
The DOE-Office of Basic Energy Science-Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (BES-RENEW) funds the research and supports the energy roadmap, identifying hydrogen as an energy source to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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TECH TALENT
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FAMU-FSU Chair and Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Bruce R. Locke and Robert O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry Joseph Schlenoff have been named Fellows of the academy, which highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating work that has made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development and welfare of society.
Locke has worked in the area of plasma technology for the past several years and holds 11 U.S. patents with additional applications in review. Several of his inventions involve the use of air and water with low-temperature plasma to generate nitrogen fertilizer for agricultural use to mitigate the environmental impact of growing food.
Schlenoff has patented 42 technologies over his career, including a robot that dips microscope slides into beakers sequentially to build up a thin film polymer. He also developed an anti-fouling coating that can be applied to ships to prevent plants, algae and marine animals such as barnacles from attaching themselves to the vessel and causing damage.
Since its inception in 2012, the NAI Fellows program has grown to include 1,898 exceptional researchers and innovators, who hold over 63,000 U.S. patents and 13,000 licensed technologies.
Locke and Schlenoff are part of a class of 162 inventors from 118 research universities, governmental and non-profit research institutions worldwide. Collectively, the 2023 class holds more than 4,600 U.S. patents.
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