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Research Awards given by ICTAS

ICTAS Awards 2009

ICTAS research awards in spring 2009 totaled approximately $2.2 million. The following are the recipients announced March 6, 2009 (Arranged in alphabetical order by project name):

A Design Framework for Thin-Walled Concrete Structures (Team Leader: Moen, Cris)

A New Paradigm for Non-Equilibrium Dynamics (Team Leader: Schmittmann, Beatte )

Algal Biodiesel Production: Breaking Barriers via Functional Genomics (Team Leader: Pereira, Andy)

Bio-inspired Energy Harvesting (Team Leader: Sultan, Cornel)

Challenges in the Fabrication of PEM Fuel Cell Membranes: Phase Separation Kinetics in Block Copolymer Systems During Solvent Removal (Team Leader: Martin, Stephen)

Climate Change and Urban Growth: Development of a Sustainable and Resilient Water Management System Portfolio for the Greater Washington, DC Metropolitan Area (Team Leader: Moglen, Glenn)

Cognitive Radio Network (Team Leader: Bose, Tamal)

Critical Programmatic Expansion of the ICTAS Environmental Nanosciences and Technology Research Theme: Nanoparticle/Cell Interactions and Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensor Development (Team Leader: Hochella, Mike)

Development and Incorporation of a River-floodplain Metric into Regional Water Quality Models (Team Leader: Scott, Durelle)

Dielectrophoretic microweaving: new technology platform for biofabrication of advanced nanomaterials (Team Leader: Davalos, Rafael)

Enabling Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Research and Education by Integrating Emerging Engineering Technology into Sustainable Practices (Team Leader: Gabbard, Joseph)

Enhanced Performance in Bulk Heterojunction Solar cells via Endohedral Metallofullerenes and Morphological Control (Team Leader: Heflin, Randy)

Holey Scaffolds (Team Leader: Xu, Yong)

ICE - Advanced Fuel Gasification: A Coupled Experimental Computational Program (Team Leader: Lattimer, Brian)

In-Situ NMR Investigation of Gas Hydrates-the future Energy Source and Storage (Team Leader: Wi, Sungsool)

Inhibiting HIV-1 TAR RNA function using nanoparticle-delivered branched peptides (Team Leader: Santos, Webster)

Magnetic and Optical Properties of Au Core/Oxide Shell Nanoparticles using Pulsed Laser Ablation (Team Leader: Abaide, Jeremiah)

Nanopatterning and Quantitative Characterization of Nanostructured Materials (Team Leader: Lu, Kathy)

Nanostructured Biomaterial Meshes with Gradient Properties for Tissue Engineering (Team Leader: Morgan, Abby)

Near Real-time Monitoring and Adaptive Risk Assessment of the US National Levee Ssem Using Satellite-based Remote Sensing (Team Leader: Martin, James)

Selective Functionalization and Guided Assembly of Nanoparticle Molecules (Team Leader: Robinson, Hans)

Sustainable Building Design Initiative (Team Leader: Boroyevich, Dushan)

Sustainable Water Development: Water and Wastewater Treatment, Infrastructure Assessment and Repair, and Urban Watershed Management (Team Leader: Novak, John)

Unique and Unclonable On-Chip Identifiers (Team Leader: Shaumont, Patrick)

Water for Health ICTAS Center of Excellence (Team Leader: Dietrich, Andrea)