After careful consideration by a special Grant Selection Committee appointed
by the president of the company, Micromeritics'
grant award winner for the first quarter of 2009 has been selected. An ASAP
2050 Xtended Pressure Sorption Analyzer has been awarded to the Physics Department
at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
According to Aldo Migone, Principal Investigator, Professor and Chair of the
Department of Physics, “Research activities will span a broad area of
material characterization through adsorption/desorption measurements in three
departments: Physics, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. The research that
this project will encompass includes, but is not limited to, my own work on
porous metal-organic-frameworks and carbon nanotubes, Prof. Talapatra’s
work on metal hydrides and carbon nanotubes, Prof. Daves’s work on porous
sol-gel glasses, and Prof. Mondal’s research on active catalysts. The
investigations that will be carried out on the ASAP 2050 will provide critical
information for developing applications of these nanostructured materials to
areas such as gas separation, gas storage, gas sensing and catalysis.”
Saikat Talapatra (Co-PI, Department of Physics) states, “The availability
of this instrument will also give a tremendous boost to the ongoing research
efforts on energy that are taking place in and around the SIUC campus.”
Southern Illinois University Carbondale is one of the nation’s top research
universities and has attained the highest classification offered by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching – ResearchUniversity (high
research activity). This classification places SIUC in distinguished company;
less than four percent of all universities in the United States share this prestigious
ranking.
According to Preston Hendrix, Micromeritics’ President, “Our grant
program is designed to promote and advance the acquisition and use of material
characterization instrumentation not generally available through other means
to non-profit universities and institutions. We are very proud and excited to
present this award in an ongoing grant program to support important research.”
Micromeritics’ Instrument Grant Program is intended to provide particle
characterization instruments to non-profit universities and research organizations
for the purpose of fostering and supporting meritorious research projects. A
maximum of one instrument/integrated system will be awarded per calendar quarter.
Deadline dates for the next two grants are:
- Application deadline 03/31/09 ; Grant decision prior to 06/30/09
- Application deadline 06/30/09 ; Grant decision prior to 09/30/09
Applications may be submitted at any time in accordance with the application
instructions and will remain active for four grant periods from the date of
submission. Click on Grant Program for a detailed grant description, application
requirements, and application.