Duan receives awards, $1.7 million in grant funding

Chuancheng Duan, assistant professor in the Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering, has been busy over the last year, securing more than $1.7 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and winning a pair of awards from industry publications: the Materials Today Energy Rising Star Award and the 2023 J. Bruce Wagner, Jr. Young Investigator Award from the High-Temperature Energy, Materials & Processes Division of the Electrochemical Society.

• $1.2 million in DOE funding for pair of research projects to reduce methane emissions

• $500,000 grant for co-generation of liquid chemicals and electricity from natural gas

• 2022 Materials Today Energy Rising Star Award

• 2023 High-Temperature Energy, Materials, & Processes Division J. Bruce Wagner, Jr. Young Investigator Award by the Electrochemical Society