UW System Administration awarded 16 UW faculty and academic staff with Applied Research Grants, funding to encourage the application of expertise and scholarship to Wisconsin's economic development.
Among the recipients are Charles Cornett and Joseph Wu of UW-Platteville for their continued development of a WiSys owned technology that tests for illicit drugs.
Wisconsin Science & Technology Symposium 2015 speakers Yijun Tang (of UW-Oshkosh), Robert McGaff (of UW-La Crosse), Mohammad Rabbani (of UW-Platteville), John Droske (of UW-Stevens Point) and Gokul Gopalakrishman (of UW-Platteville) also received grants for their research.
Grant recipients for the 2015-2016 year are:
Applied Research Grants
Recipient: Malek Alkasrawi
UW-Stevens Point
Upgrading Organosolv Lignin to Small Aromatics by Catalysts in Presence of Green Solvents
Recipient: Chip Beal
UW-Superior
Preserving the Power of Plants
Recipient: Junhong Chen
UW-Milwaukee
Scale-up of Hollow Si Lithium-ion Battery Anode Materials for High-performance Electric Vehicles
Recipient: Jason Fischbach
UW-Extension
Scaling-Up Hazelnuts in the Upper Midwest
Recipient: Junjie Niu
UW-Milwaukee
An Approach To Next-generation Lithium-based Batteries
Recipient: Yijun Tang
UW-Oshkosh
Direct Methanol Fuel Cells With Ionic Liquid Replacing Polymer Electrolyte
Applied Research-WiSys Technology Advancement Grant Match Grants
Recipient: Brian Barry and Jim Hamilton
UW-Platteville
A Novel Approach for Generation of Value-Added Lignin-derived Products: A Catalytic Process for Selective C-O Bond Cleavage
Recipient: Charles Cornett, Raja Anamalai, and Joseph Wu
UW-Platteville
Continued Development of Presumptive Drug Testing Kits
Recipient: John Droske and Wei Zheng
UW-Stevens Point and UW-Stout
Further Characterization of “Green” Thermosetting Resins: Material Data Sheets and Degradation Kinetics
Recipient: Gokul Gopalakrishman
UW-Platteville
Silicon Nanomembranes for Piezoresistive MEMS Pressure Sensors
Recipient: Robert McGaff
UW-La Crosse
Synthesis of Value-Added Aldehyde and Ketone Products from Biomass-Derived Alcohols
Recipient: Mohammad Rabbani
UW-Platteville
Design and Synthesis of Nanoporous Organic Polymers to Construct Nanoporous Membrane Composites for Gas Separation Applications