Grove School chemical engineer Elizabeth Biddinger.
Elizabeth J. Biddinger, City College of New York’s award-winning chemical engineering professor, is a participant in a Lehigh University-led multi-institution project to develop a new class of molecules, chemistries, and chemical processes to better store and transport green energy across the globe. The effort is funded by a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The multidisciplinary team aims to improve current liquid organic hydrogen carriers and use AI to identify novel approaches that could lay the groundwork for a global renewable energy supply chain.
Biddinger’s collaborators include:
- Dharik Mallapragada, assistant professor, chemical and biomedical engineering at New York University;
- Daniel E. Resasco, Gallogly Chair in Engineering and professor of chemical engineering, University of Oklahoma; and
- Steven P. Crossley, Sam A Wilson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Oklahoma.
The team is led by Srinivas Rangarajan, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in Lehigh’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. “This is a convergent effort where we’re looking at this problem in a multiscale manner,” says Rangarajan, “from the atomic scale all the way up to global supply chains.”
At The City College’s Grove School of Engineering, Biddinger will study analogous electrochemical approaches. Read more here.
Biddinger has earned recognition for her outstanding research with multiple awards. These include the 2018 U.S. Department of Energy Early CAREER Award for her pioneering research in the emerging field of biomass electroreduction; the 2016-2017 Electrochemical Society - Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for studying switchable electrolytes for battery safety; and the 2014 CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering (JFRASE) sponsored by the Sloan Foundation to study CO2 electroreduction.
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