Engineer Stephen S. Nonnenmann Receives Five-Year, $600,000 NSF CAREER Grant to Study Energy Conversion and Storage

Stephen S. Nonnenmann, M2M and assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has received a five-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study energy conversion and storage applications using highly sensitive microscopes. The grant is from the NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) program.

Nonnenmann says most energy and electronic applications require an active material between two electrodes. He studies metal oxides and how different combinations of them react with oxygen and carbon dioxide and transport electrons and oxygen for energy applications.