Grant: Canada Research Chairs
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
$120,000.00
Computational Materials Design for Energy and Environmental Applications
FY 2023-24
Summary
Many of the existing sustainable technologies developed to tackle energy and environmental issues use rare and expensive materials, challenging their commercial success. The proposed Canada Research Chair program aims to remedy this problem by exploiting the currently overlooked disorder in inexpensive materials to enhance their efficiencies, specifically for catalysis and fuel cell applications. The advanced computational techniques will be used to understand disorder in materials, thereby facilitating the unique training of highly qualified personnel, who will
consequently begin to grow a computational sustainable energy talent pool, as one cornerstone of a new cleantech sector of Canada.
Program
Canada Research Chairs
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
CRC-2019-00231
Name nom
Ghuman, Kulbir
Department département
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications - Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Organization id
56
Institution établissement
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2023
Competition year année de concours
2019
Award amount
120000
Program id
CRC
Program name en
Canada Research Chairs
Program name fr
Chaires de recherche du Canada
Group en
DISCOVERY RESEARCH
Group fr
RECHERCHE AXÉE SUR LA DÉCOUVERTE
Committee code
9998
Committee name en
Canada Research Chair Selection Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection des Chaires de recherche du Canada
Area of application code
9999
Area of application group en
Not available
Area of application group fr
Non disponible
Area of application en
Not available
Area of application fr
Non disponible
Research subject code
10000
Research subject group en
The field of research available
Research subject group fr
The field of research available
Research subject en
Le domaine de recherche disponible
Research subject fr
Le domaine de recherche disponible
Field of research list codes
RDF10407;RDF20601
Field of research list names en
Computational and theoretical chemistry;Materials engineering
Field of research list names fr
Chimie computationnelle et théorique;Génie des matériaux
Application title
Computational Materials Design for Energy and
Environmental Applications
Keyword
Computational materials design
disordered materials
; nanoscience
surface science
quantum and classical ; simulations
sustainable fuels and chemicals
energy ; materials
fuel cells
heterogeneous catalysis
Application summary
Many of the existing sustainable technologies developed to tackle energy and environmental issues use rare and expensive materials, challenging their commercial success. The proposed Canada Research Chair program aims to remedy this problem by exploiting the currently overlooked disorder in inexpensive materials to enhance their efficiencies, specifically for catalysis and fuel cell applications. The advanced computational techniques will be used to understand disorder in materials, thereby facilitating the unique training of highly qualified personnel, who will
consequently begin to grow a computational sustainable energy talent pool, as one cornerstone of a new cleantech sector of Canada.
