The Department of Energy has announced that the University of North Texas is one of only nine universities to receive a research project grant to support innovation and development of clean coal technologies.

Dr. Rajiv Mishra, a professor in UNT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, received the two-year, $300,000 grant to develop high performance materials for use in high-temperature applications at coal-fired energy plants. Next generation materials would allow these plants to operate at higher temperatures, which makes coal combustion more efficient, and in turn, results in lower emissions.

Read more about Dr. Mishra and the research project grant to develop new computationally designed nickel-chromium alloys that could be used in high temperature applications in coal plants.