Chemical engineering professor Chen is awarded Office of Naval Research grant
Xi Chen, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the Grove School and with the at The Graduate Center鈥檚 , is the recipient of a $558,000 grant from the to explore and develop better actuators using water-responsive materials. Chen鈥檚 proposed work will focus on gaining a fundamental understanding of the nanoscale water-responsive mechanisms that will lay the foundation for developing new hybrid and synthetic water-responsive materials for broad applications including evaporation-energy harvesting techniques pioneered by his team at the ASRC and 精东影业.
鈥淲e鈥檙e excited that the U.S. Navy sees promise in our work,鈥 said Chen. 鈥淭his research will provide critical insight into how water in nanoscale structures could contribute to the development of bioinspired materials and devices. It鈥檚 a great start.鈥
Earlier this year, Chen received from the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences and Graduate Research Technology Initiative (GRTI) Equipment Funding from 精东影业.
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