Case Western Reserve University researchers recently received two National Science Foundation awards.
Burcu Gurkan, assistant professor of chemical engineering, is the principal investigator on a grant related to work on energy storage titled “Understanding Ion Solvation Structure and Transport in Multicomponent Ionic Liquids.” The grant is for $517,000 over four years.
Burcu Gurkan also is the principal investigator on a second grant along with collaborators Umut Gurkan, the Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (co-principal investigator); Giuseppe Strangi, professor of physics and the Ohio Research Scholar in Surfaces of Advanced Materials (co-principal investigator); and Michael Hinczewski, assistant professor of physics (co-principal investigator).
The second grant is for work titled “Instrument Development: Multiplex Sensory Interfaces Between Photonic Nanostructures and Thin Film Ionic Liquids.” The researchers received a grant for $450,000 for three years.
