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Shrotriya receives NSF Career Award

Pranav Shrotriya has been awarded one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards given to early career faculty. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award provides funding to support an integrated research and teaching plan focused on exciting new research challenges. The outstanding faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at ISU include three additional NSF CAREER awardees, one Department of Energy CAREER awardee and two NSF Presidential Young Investigator awardees. Read more here...

Dr. Shrotriya's project entitled "High Resolution Interferometry-Based Surface Stress Sensors for Chemical and Biological Species Detection" will receive $400,032 in funding over the next five years. This research will investigate basic phenomena related to surface stress generation due to absorption/adsorption of molecules and its applications to sensors for detection of chemical and biological species. Sensors capable of monitoring surface stress change due to absorption/adsorption of molecules are increasingly being used to detect the presence of chemical and biological species in both gas and liquid environments. Proposed work seeks to address the limitations of current state-of-art sensors with the development of a quantitative understanding of surface stress generation and a novel sensing approach based on high resolution interferometry. The proposed interdisciplinary research compliments Dr Shrotriya's educational goals by integrating science and engineering research at high school, undergraduate and graduate level.

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