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Research & Funding support from the following agencies is greatly acknowlegded

	Office of Research and Development (ORDA) [OSPA]
	Faculty Start-up Seed Grant:Supercapacitors from Carbon Nanotubes Grown Directly on Metals for Miniature Power Sources.[End Date: 05/2009] Advanced Energy Institute [AEI] Biochar Based High Performance Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices [With Punit Kohli SIUC Chemistry][End Date: 06/2024] Advanced Energy Institute [AEI] Artificially Assembled Two Dimensional (2D) Layered Materials and Quantum Dot (0D) Heterostructures for Broadband Light Harvesting [With Punit Kohli, SIUC Chemistry][End Date: 06/2022] Advanced Center for Energy Research [ACER] Investigations of atomic layers of Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and Doped MoS2 for Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon dioxide [With D.Mazumdar (PI) and T. Jayasekera, SIUC Physics][End Date: 06/2018]
	National Science Foundation [NSF]
	NSF-REU-2150489 - REU site for multidisciplinary materials research. [PI: Boyd Goodson, SIUC Chemistry][End Date: 03/2025] [REU Site] NSF-CHE-1920255 - MRI: Acquisition of Multi-Mode Atomic Force Microscopy System for Research, Education and Outreach. [PI:Punit Kohli; Co-Principal Investigator:Saikat Talapatra, Kyle Plunkett, Farhan Chowdhury, Senetta Bancroft][End Date: 06/2022]. NSF-DMR- 1807094 - Collaborative Research: Adsorption Equilibration of Binary Mixtures on Planar and Porous Sorbents [With Aldo Migone, SIUC Physics][End Date: 06/2023]. NSF-REU-1757954 - REU site for multidisciplinary materials research. [PI: Boyd Goodson, SIUC Chemistry][End Date: 03/2020] [REU Site] NSF-CHE-1506277 - Collaborative Research: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Inter-molecular Forces Between Environmental Pollutants and Carbon Nanotubes. [With M. Tsige (UAkron) and S. Ma (Texas A&M)][End Date: 08/2019] NSF-REU-146255 - REU site for multidisciplinary materials research. [PI: Boyd Goodson, SIUC Chemistry][End Date: 04/2017] NSF-CBET-1133117 - Collaborative Research: Experimental & Theoretical Study of Carbon Nanotubes for Liquid Fuel Generation. [With K. Mondal(PI), SIU Mechanical and M. Terrones, Penn State Physics][End Date: 08/2015] NSF-REU-1157058 - REU site for multidisciplinary materials research. [PI: Boyd Goodson, SIUC Chemistry][End Date:04/2014] NSF-ECCS-0925682 - Collaborative Proposal: Ultra-high Performance Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Architectures for On-chip Gigascale Local and Global Interconnects. [With S. Kar and Y. Jung (Northeastern)][End Date 08/2013] NSF-PIRE OISE-0968405 - Partnership in Education and Research (PIRE): PIRE: U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research & Education on Terahertz Dynamics in Nanostructures. [PI: Junichro Kono, Rice University][End Date: 2016] [More about the PIRE program]
	DoE Basic Energy Sciences [BES]
	DE-FG02-06ER46291 - Novel Physical Behaviors Driven by Magnetostructural Phase Transitions [with PI: Naushad Ali, SIUC Physics and Shane Stadler, LSU] [End Date: 06/2025]
	DE-FG02-06ER46291 - Phase Transitions in Metastable Multicaloric Materials [with PI: Naushad Ali, SIUC Physics and Shane Stadler, LSU] [End Date: 06/2022]
	DoD Army Research Office [ARO]
	W911NF-11-1-0362 - MURI: Atomic Layers of Nitrogen, Oxygen ans Sulphur (ALNOS) [PI: P. M. Ajayan, Rice University] [End Date:03/2017] [2D MURI Site]
	Indo-US Science and Technology Forum [IUSSTF]
	Indo-US Joint Centre: [LITEUP-2D] Light Induced Energy Technologies: Utilizing Promising 2D Materials. [End Date 06/2020] Indo-US Joint Centre: 3-D Engineered Electrodes for Electrochemical Energy Storage.[End Date 08/2016]
	Illinois Clean Coal Institute
	Fischer-Tropsch on Carbon Nanotube Catalyst-Mechanistic and Reactor Design Studies [With K. Mondal, SIU Mechanical][End Date 08/2013] Single Step Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Based Catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis. [With K. Mondal, SIU Mechanical and M. Terrones, Penn State Physics][End Date 08/2011] Development of Carbon Nanotube Based Catalyst Support for Fischer Tropsch Synthesis.[End Date 08/2009]
	Micromeritics Inc.
	Micromeritics Equipment Grant Program Acquisition of High Pressure Adsorption Instrument. [With A. Migone (PI), SIU Physics, K. Mondal, SIU Mechanical and B. Dave, SIU Chemistry]