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MISTI Global Seed Fund 2011-2012
Grant Recipients

Atomic Level View toward the Surfaces of Cathodes in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

A collaboration between:

  • Bilge Yildiz, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • John Kilner, B.C.H.Steele Professor of Energy Materials, Imperial College, United Kingdom


Graphene Plasmonics and Quantum Optoelectronics


A collaboration between:

  • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Assistant Professor, Physics
  • Frank Koppens, Assistant Professor, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain


MIT-ITQ Valencia Collaboration on High-Throughput Methodology for the Synthesis of Catalytic Porous Materials


A collaboration between:

  • Mircea Dinca, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
  • Yuriy Roman, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
  • Avelino Corma, Professor, Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica de Valencia, Spain


Nanoengineered Surfaces and Coatings for Enhanced Water Recovery


A collaboration between:

  • Kripa Varanasi, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Daniel Beysens, CEA and ESPCI-ParisTech, France
  • Anne Mongruel, Universite Pierre Marie Curie (Paris 6), France


Probing a New Energy Frontier with Jets at the Large Hadron Collider


A collaboration between:

  • Iain Stewart, Associate Professor, Physics
  • Jesse Thaler, Assistant Professor, Physics
  • Gavin Salam, Staff Scientist & Associate Researcher, CERN, Switzerland & LPTHE-CNRS, France
  • Andre Hoang, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria


Scroll Expander Optimization for Solar Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Power Systems


A collaboration between:

  • Harold Hemond, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Vincent Lemort, Professor, University of Liege, Belgium, Lesotho
  • Kopano Tsenoli, Chief Engineer, Government of Lesotho, Lesotho


Searching for the Origin of Lunar Magnetism


A collaboration between:

  • Benjamin Weiss, Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Mark Wieczorek, Directeur de Recherche, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France


Structured Control Law Design for Spacecraft Formation Flying: Application to SPHERES


A collaboration between:

  • Alvar Saenz Otero, Research Scientist, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Kerri Cahoy, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Daniel Alazard, Professor, ISAE, France
  • Caroline Bérard, Professor, ISAE, France


 TIsHom: Tissue Homeostasis via Synthetic Biology

A collaboration between:

  • Ron Weiss, Professor, Biological Engineering
  • Gregory Batt, Assistant Professor, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France