The Department receives a grant from the DOE-Hydrogen Fuel Initiative Program

Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos is the recipient of a $ 1.2 Mi grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The new research project to be conducted at Tufts and at Columbia University over the next three years, involves interdisciplinary research on nanocatalyst materials design for clean hydrogen production in support of the President’s Hydrogen Fuel Initiative. Professor Flytzani-Stephanopoulos serves as the principal investigator of the project. The novel materials under investigation are based on highly dispersed oxidized clusters of gold, copper and platinum bound on nanoscale oxide matrices. In previous work at Prof. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos’s lab, gold-cerium oxide nanostructured materials have been shown to exhibit high catalytic activity and stability for the water-gas shift reaction, the selective oxidation of carbon monoxide, and other redox reactions of relevance to clean energy production and fuel cells. Tufts is one of 13 universities selected nationwide to conduct catalyst design at the nanoscale for the HFI program. For more information, see: http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/hydrogen.html