RIT’s Pratik Dholabhai earns NSF CAREER Award to study materials in solid oxide fuel cells
Assistant professor from RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy receives prestigious grant
A Rochester Institute of Technology faculty member has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to conduct fundamental physics research on complex materials in solid oxide fuel cells. Assistant Professor Pratik Dholabhai from RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and grant for his five-year project.
Dholabhai will study the movement of ions within solid oxide fuel cells, which creates the basis of operation for electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies. He will specifically study what happens at the interface of oxide heterostructures, which are an intriguing microscopic class of nanomaterials created by joining two different oxides.