Two Harvard teams win energy grants
Two Harvard-led teams are among the 66 selected by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) that will receive a total of $130 million in funding through its OPEN 2012 program, which is designed to support innovative energy technologies, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced on Wednesday. The projects have the potential to produce game-changing breakthroughs in energy technology, form the foundations for entirely new industries, and have large commercial impacts, according to Chu, who noted that the selected projects encompass 11 technology areas in 24 states, and support the Obama administration’s “all-of-the-above approach” to solving the nation’s most pressing energy challenges. Heading up the Harvard teams are Michael J. Aziz, Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Joanna Aizenberg, Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science at SEAS and a core faculty member at...