A $1.99 million NSF grant supports an interdisciplinary disaster research project at UD.
Quantum Momentum
UD received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop the quantum electronics of the future.
Big Discoveries About Tiny Particles
A chemical engineering doctoral student led an international effort to uncover properties of polymer nanoparticles.
A Big Spark For Energy Research
The University of Delaware has won a $12.8 million, four-year funding renewal from the U.S. Department of Energy for the continued operation of the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI).
Biomechanics Center to Continue REU
NSF has awarded funding to the University of Delaware’s Center for Biomechanical Engineering Research (CBER) to be a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site through 2021.
Could Bacteria Fuel The Future?
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis a three-year, $1.5 million grant to study the production of clostridium bacteria as platforms for biofuels.
Azeem Sharief works on model to track pathways of inhaled medicine
Azeem Sharief, a chemical engineering major, is interested in how inhaled medication is delivered to lung tissue.
Transport in UD’s Scaled Smart City
Yiming Wan is studying the use of drones in combination with smart or autonomous vehicles to optimize traffic flow.
Cleaner, Greener U.S. Manufacturing
UD is part of a national push to double U.S. energy productivity by the year 2030 through new research projects funded by the Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing Institute.
Transforming Carbon Dioxide
A team of researchers at the University of Delaware’s Center for Catalytic Science and Technology (CCST) has discovered a novel two-step process to increase the efficiency of carbon dioxide (CO2) electrolysis.
Biochar, microbes and dirt
Senior environmental engineering major Michael Rechsteiner researches biochar and how it can help sustain our environment.
Novel Sensors Could Enable Smarter Textiles
Delaware engineers are using flexible carbon nanotube composite coatings to create next-generation smart textiles with the ability to measure a wide range of pressures.














