NSF EAGER Grant Awarded to Sundaresan

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Assistant Professor Vishnu Sundaresan  has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to fund his investigation of the coupled transport processes in an active nanoporous membrane.  His research will focus on the applicability of elastic deformation of nanopores for fluid transport and mimic the functionality of transport through biological channels. Sundaresan believes that his research concept, if proven successful, could lead to a new class of membranes that would enable the separation of dissolved salts in water through controlled cyclic elastic deformation.

Sundaresen, who joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2012, directs the Integrated Material Systems Laboratory within the department.


About EAGER Grants
According to the NSF, the EAGER funding mechanism may be used to support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches. This work may be considered especially "high risk-high payoff" in the sense that it, for example, involves radically different approaches, applies new expertise, or engages novel disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.

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