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Texas A&M at Qatar faculty part of $4 million NSF project

Published Nov 02, 2009

Three Texas A&M at Qatar faculty are among a team of investigators leading a $4 million National Science Foundation project to to design new materials with enhanced capabilities for efficient energy conversion.

Mechanical engineering professors Dr. Richard Griffin and Dr. Annie Ruimi, and Dr. Prasad Enjeti, professor of electrical engineering, will collaborate with researchers from Texas A&M University, Georgia Tech and the University of Houston for the development of the International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC). The mission of the IIMEC is to create an active network of materials researchers between the US and countries of the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Using state-of-the-art laboratories, computational facilities and cyber infrastructure, the IIMEC will research multifunctional materials that exhibit strong coupling among different fields. The three overarching themes of the IIMEC are thermal/magnetic and mechanical coupling (smart materials and shape memory alloys);  electrical and mechanical coupling (electroactive polymers, ceramics, hybrids); and optical/thermal and electrical coupling (photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, fuel cells). For information contact Dr. Annie Ruimi: annie.ruimi@qatar.tamu.edu, +974.423.0270.