Funding

IGE, “AI-Driven Virtual Teaching Assistant (ViTA) in Medical Biophysics Graduate Education” $700,000 (2025-28) (PI: 60%)

CORE SC, “Large-scale triboelectric nanogenerators” $50,000 in direct costs (2024-25) (PI: 100%)


US Army GVSC (through Clemson University-International Center for Automotive Research) “Battery thermal management systems for pack operation in -40 to 70 °C range” $750,000 in total costs (2024-2026) (PI; Share: 70%)


NASA EPSCoR “Advanced Li-S batteries for space applications,” $50,000 in total costs (2023-24) (PI; Share: 100%)


Palmetto Academy NASA SC Space Grant, “Energy storage devices for operation in extended temperature range -60 to 60 oC”, $47,000 in total costs (2023-24) (PI; Share: 100%)


Sonoco, Inc, ‘Microscopic and spectroscopic investigation of metallized paper in high humidity’ $39,000 (2022-23) (PI Share: 100%)


RII-Track 1 MADE in SC NSF-EPSCoR, “Graphene-based photonic diodes”, $60,000 in direct costs (2019-20) (PI; Share: 100%)


NASA EPSCoR, “High-energy and High-power energy storage devices for space applications”, $1,500,000 in total costs (2018-21) (co-PI; Share: 37.5%)


South Carolina EPSCoR Stimulus grant, “Nanostructure Li-S batteries”, $300,000/2 yr (2018-20) (co-PI; Share: 37.5%)


Haworth, Inc., “Nanomaterials for smart furniture applications” (2015-18) ($400,000 in total, PI, Share: 50%).


Haworth, Inc., “Anti-bacterial nanomaterials for smart furniture applications” (2018-2019) ($250,000 in total, co-PI, Share: 33%)


NIH (NIEHS) R01, ‘’ Investigation of nanotoxicity through mast-cell activations” $265,000 in direct costs (2015-20 PI: 100% at CU; Sub-contracted from NIH PI at UC Denver Jared M Brown)


NIH (NIEHS) R03, ‘Nanoparticle-Protein Corona Structural Changes and Immunoreactivity’ $42k in direct costs (2014-16 PI: 100% at CU; Sub-contracted from NIH PI at UC Denver Jared M Brown)