- USDA NIFA, Xuejun Pan and Yi-Cheng Wang, “Engineering forest residues into functionalized mesoporous materials for energy and environmental applications”, $650,000 (2022 – 2025)
- Dairy Innovation Hub (DIH), Xuejun Pan and Jan Peter van Pijkeren, “Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) synthesized from lactose as a milk supplement to promote probiotic growth”, $150,000 (2022 – 2024).
- SunGrant, Yi-Cheng Wang and Xuejun Pan,“Biomass-derived cellulose-based triboelectric devices for energy harvesting and self-powered sensing”, $340,000 (2021 – 2023).
- USDA NIFA McIntire Stennis, Xuejun Pan, “Synthesis of prebiotic oligosaccharides from hemicellulose sugars from forest biomass biorefineries (WIS03065)”, $111,150 (2020 – 2023)
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USDA NIFA, Xiao Zhang and Xuejun Pan, “Dicarboxylic acids platform for biorefinery lignin valorization”, $500,000 (2018 – 2023)
- NSF, Xuejun Pan, “Fabrication and fundamental understanding of cellulase-mimetic bifunctional solid acids for hydrolyzing cellulose”, $325,130 (2017 – 2022).
- USDA NIFA McIntire Stennis, Xuejun Pan and Krishnapuram Karthikeyan. “Fabrication and functionalization of whole biomass aerogels from forest residue as biosorbents for heavy metals”, $163,576 (2017 – 2021)
- USDA NIFA McIntire Stennis, Xuejun Pan, “Conversion of Forest Residue into High-Value Furan-Based Chemicals and High-Quality Lignin in Biphasic System Involving Molten Salt Hydrate (WIS01861)”, $160,000 (2015 – 2019)
- NSF Career Award, Xuejun Pan, “CAREER: Fundamental Understanding of Behaviors and Impacts of Cell Wall Lignin during Bioconversion of Lignocellulose to Fuel Ethanol”, $450,000 (2009 – 2014).
- NSF, Xuejun Pan, “Fundamental understanding of HDA process: one-step conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to furan-based precursors for drop-in liquid fuel”, $336,901 (2012 – 2016).
- NSF, Xuejun Pan, “Fast saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass under mild conditions in the medium of concentrated lithium bromide”, $298,686 (2012 – 2016)
- WARF Accelerator Program, Xuejun Pan, “Production of high-concentration sugar directly from lignocellulose under moderate conditions for fuels and chemicals”, $127,825 (2013 – 2015)
- USDA McIntire Stennis, Xuejun Pan, “Direct saccharification and fractionation of forest biomass for fuel and chemical production under mild conditions in concentrated halide salt solution”, $148,259 (2011 – 2015)
- Stanford University GCEP, John Ralph, Xuejun Pan, and Sara Patterson, “Efficient biomass conversion: delineating the best lignin monomer-substitutes”, total $1.4M (2009 – 2012)