A Texas A&M professor, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, received a Department of Energy grant to develop a system in engineered barriers to isolate and contain nuclear fuel waste.

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Designing A Better Battery

Oct 30, 2020 • 3 min. read

Researchers from Texas A&Ms Department of Chemical Engineering are developing protective layers for safer and longer-lasting batteries.

Thorium-based nuclear fuel pellets will be manufactured on campus at the Nuclear Engineering and Science Center.

The grants help attract top scientific talent while building and sustaining the nation’s scientific workforce.

The three-year project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office.

A three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy will allow the Texas A&M team to study materials that can store and release heat on demand.

A U.S. Department of Energy-funded collaborative project will allow Texas A&M AgriLife researchers to measure greenhouse gas emmissions from agricultural fields in the Southern Great Plains.

The method developed Texas A&M researchers could help reduce nuclear waste.

Texas A&M researchers are developing technology that can depict underground drilling conditions in real time.

The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) consortium was recently awarded a five-year, $100 million grant to establish an Energy-Water Desalination Hub.