Grants support our high-quality research
Browse our list of current grants, which provide significant funding for our CCCE researchers.
Sustainable Development Goals
Griffith University is aligned to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is committed to ensuring clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, and the preservation of marine life, working towards a sustainable and environmentally responsible future.
ARC grants
- Prof Huijun Zhao, Dr Batmunkh, Chlorine Evolution Catalysts for Efferent Seawater Electrolysis, ARC Discovery Projects (including Fellowship) (DP210104010) ($541,345)
- A/Prof Porun Liu, New Hierarchical Electrode Design for High-Power Lithium Ion Batteries. Australian Research Council (ARC) 1 Jun 2018 - 31 Dec 2021, ARC Discovery Projects (including Fellowship) ($432,964)
- Prof Huijun Zhao, Dr Yuhai Dou, C T He, Atomically Thin 3d Transition Metal Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting, ARC Discovery Projects (including Fellowship) ($542,288)
- Professor Shanqing Zhang, Dr Yun Wang, Recyclable and Rechargeable All-Solid-State Sodium Ion Batteries, ARCDP 2021-2023 ($569,120)
- Professor Huijun Zhao, Dr Yulin Zhong Professor Hua Zhao, Zhijian Zhuo, Low Cost Solution-Processable 2D Nanomaterials for Smart Windows, ARC Linkage Project, 2017–2020, $813,210.
- Professor Huijun Zhao, Dr Huajie Yin, Dr Yun Wang, Professor Huamin Zhang, Two-dimensional nanoporous structured high performance gas evolution electrocatalysts, ARCDP, 2017-2019 ($420,484
Dr Yulin Zhong, Tailoring Nanocomposites with Controllable Structural-Property Relationship, ARC Discovery Project, 2017–2019, $300,000.- Professor Shanqing Zhang, A New Integrated Photo-electrochemical Device Fabrication and Testing System, ARC Linkage - Infrastructure (LIEF), 2015.
- Professor Huijun Zhao and Professor Shanqing Zhang, A New Management Tool for Effective Wastewater Source Control, ARC Linkage Project grant, 2012–2016, $1.95m.
- Professor Shanqing Zhang, Designing plasmon-enhances photocatalysts for solar-driven water pollutant removal, ARC Discovery Project (including Fellowship), 2013–2015, $90,000.
- Professor Huijun Zhao and Haimin Zhang, Photoelectrocatalysis-based Techniques for Bactericidal Applications, ARC Discovery Project (including Fellowship), 2015–2017, $299,970.
ARC Future Fellowships
- A/Professor Yulin Zhong, Advancing green electrochemical engineering of functional 2D namomaterials, 2021-2024
- Professor Zhiyong Tang, Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles and Biocatalyst Proteins for Artificial Photosynthesis, 2014-2018
- Professor Huagie Yang, ARCFF, Solar-Driven Thermochemical Dissociation of Carbon Dioxide and Water to Produce Carbon-Neutral Fuel, 2012-2016
- Professor Shanqing Zhang, Development of a photoelectrochemical system based on titanium dioxide nanotubes/boron doped diamond heterojunction for online water quality monitoring, ARCFF, 2010-2015
ARC DECRA Fellowships
- Dr porun Liu, Catalytically active surface for hydrogen evolution, 2017-2019
- A/Professor Yulin Zhong, Non-Oxidative and Scalable Electrochemical Production of Functional Graphene and its Nanohybrids, 2014-2017
Other grants
- Prof Huijun Zhao, A/Prof Porun Liu, Mineral carbonation towards net zero (Waseem Ahmad), CSIRO1 May 2022 - 30 Apr 2025, CSIRO Postgraduate Research Top-up Scholarship ($35,000)
- A/Prof Porun Liu, XAS analysis of metal active centres for synergistically enhanced electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation27 Jul 2021 - 30 Jul 2021. Australian Synchrotron (AS212/XAS/17273) ($98,352)
- Dr Yun Wang, Mechanistic study of electrocatalysis, Griffith University Grant, 2017-2019 $10,000
- Professor Huijun Zhao, A/Professor Yulin Zhong, Professor Shanqing Zhang, A simultaneous thermal and chemisorption analyser (DSC/TGA/Chemisorp-MS) for in operando studies of functional materials, Griffith University grant, $390,000
- Professor Shanqing Zhang, Professor Huijun Zhao, Professor Huamin Zhang, Dr Yun Wang et al. A suite of instruments for enhancing research on clean environment and energy, Griffith University Grant, 2011-2012 $75,000.
- Dr Yun Wang, Computational Studies of Photocatalytic Activities of Titanium Dioxide Surfaces for Solar Fuel Production, Griffith University Grant, 2011-2012 $10,000
- Professor Shanqing Zhang, A 'Sense of Shoot' Approval for Photoelectrocatalytic Degradation of NDMA using Nanostructured TiO2/Diamond Electrodes, Griffith University, 2010 - 2012, $18,171