Funding

  1. NSF, “IGE: Virtual teaching assistant for medical biophysics program” ~$700K in total cost (2025-28) (PI: 60%)
  2. CU-SRNL Scholars, “Nanomaterials for betavoltaics” ~$200K in total costs (2025-27) (PI:100%).
  3. NSF EPSCoR, ADAPT in SC: GAIN-SC, “Machine Learning Based Analysis of Biophysical Markers for Real-time Prediction of Psychological State,” $60K in direct costs (2025-27) (PI: 100%).
  4. 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 (2024-26) (PI; Share: 70%).
  5. Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN), IIT-Delhi “Open educational resources for introduction to quantum computing using IBM Qiskit,” $5000 (2025).
  6. NASA EPSCoR/ CORE SC, “Large-scale triboelectric nanogenerators” $50K in direct costs (2024-25) (PI: 100%).
  7. NASA RGP “Advanced Li-S batteries for space applications,” $35K in direct costs (2023-24) (PI; Share: 100%)
  8. Palmetto Academy NASA SC Space Grant, “Energy storage devices for operation in extended temperature range -60 to 60 oC”, $23.5K in direct costs (2023-24) (PI; Share: 100%)
  9. Sonoco, Inc, ‘Microscopic and spectroscopic investigation of metallized paper in high humidity’ $39K in direct costs (2022-23) (PI Share: 100%)
  10. MADE in SC, NSF-EPSCoR, “Graphene-based photonic diodes”, $60K in direct costs (2019-20) (PI; Share: 100%)
  11. NASA, “High-energy and High-power energy storage devices for space applications”, $750K in direct costs (2018-21) (co-PI; Share: 37.5%).
  12. South Carolina EPSCoR Stimulus grant, “Nanostructure Li-S batteries”, $300K in direct costs (2018-20) (co-PI; Share: 37.5%).
  13. Haworth, Inc., “Nanomaterials for smart furniture applications” (2015-18) ($400,000 in total, PI, Share: 50%).
  14. Haworth, Inc., “Anti-bacterial nanomaterials for smart furniture applications” (2018-2019) ($250,000 in total, co-PI, Share: 33%)
  15. Sai Global Technologies, “Graphene-based high-energy and high-power supercapacitors”, $25,000 in total/1 yr (2016-2017) (PI; Share: 100%).
  16. NIH (NIEHS) R01, ‘’ Investigation of nanotoxicity through mast-cell activations” $265K in direct costs (2015-20 PI: 100% at CU; Sub-contracted from NIH PI at UC Denver Jared M Brown)
  17. NIH (NIEHS) R03, ‘Nanoparticle-Protein Corona Structural Changes and Immunoreactivity’ $42K in direct costs (2014-16 Sub-contract from UC Denver PI: Jared M Brown; Co-PI; share: 50%)