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Sustainable Energy

Wen Research Lab

From energy-harvesting textiles to better batteries and solar cells, the Chemical Engineering Department is doing the research that will enable increased use of renewable energy sources. For example, we are working on new thermochemical and biochemical pathways to renewable liquid biofuels and also examining how they perform in an engine. We are making new materials for hydrogen storage and for electrocatalysis. We are also doing fundamental and applied research related to electrochemical systems for energy storage and energy conversion.

Andrew Allman

Professor Andrew Allman and his research team are working on developing optimization frameworks for designing, operating, and controlling the next generation of chemical, energy, and biological production systems in an economic and sustainable manner. Our team is developing optimization tools which enable efficient on-site coupling between renewable energy and chemical production. as well as which support the necessary paradigm shift in global chemical production infrastructure to distributed, small scale, and time-varying production, thus mirroring the change being seen in global energy production.

Bryan Goldsmith

Professor Goldsmith’s research team utilizes electronic-structure theory, molecular simulation, machine learning, and theory to understand catalytic processes and materials for sustainable applications, e.g., exploring advanced catalysts for natural gas and CO conversion; understanding catalyst stability; modeling reaction kinetics; and screening for novel materials using big-data analytics tools.

Goldsmith Lab

Jovan Kamcev

Professor Kamcev and his research group work on improving material properties to enhance their performance and decrease energy consumption of various environmental applications.

Kamcev Lab

Jinsang Kim

Professor Jinsang Kim and his research group develop design principles for self-organizing polymers and approaches for engineering the band gap of semiconducting polymers. Their findings could lead to cheaper, greener plastic solar cells.

Kim Lab

Andrej Lenert

Professor Andrej Lenert and his team focus on solar thermal systems that utilize the full spectrum of sunlight and are compatible with inexpensive long term storage

Lenert Lab

Xiaoxia (Nina) Lin

Professor Nina Lin and her research group investigate communities of microbes and engineers symbiotic relationships among them to turn biomass into biofuel.

Lin Lab

Suljo Linic

Professor Suljo Linic and his research group’s studies in catalysis have implications fuel cells, biofuels, batteries and for the greener and more energy-efficient generation of industrial chemicals.

Linic Lab

Johannes Schwank

Professor Johannes Schwank and his research group study catalytic materials, solvents,and processes for converting biomass into useful fuels and chemicals. The Group also participates in an integrated assessment of fracking for natural gas recovery, and works on novel concepts for waste heat recovery.

Schwank Lab

Timothy Scott

Professor Timothy Scott and his group are developing ways to use free radicals to make new kinds of polymers, which may be useful for energy capture and storage.

Scott Polymer Dojo

Nirala Singh

Sustainable energy research in the Singh Lab focuses on methods to use and store renewable electricity or solar photons. Projects include development of redox flow batteries for energy storage, production of fuels and chemicals from sustainable energy, and use of renewable electricity to clean up waste streams.
Singh Group

Max Shtein

Professor Max Shtein and his research group explore organic and inorganic materials that could convert both high- and low-energy photons to electricity. The team also designs materials that can mimic the energy conversion pathways of high efficiency inorganic solar cell materials, such as silicon. In addition, group members are developing woven-fiber textiles capable of harvesting energy.

Shtein Lab

Angela Violi

Professor Violi and her research team use computer simulations to discover the fundamental principles that lead to the formation of nanoparticles from various combustion sources with the overall objective of linking nanoparticle formation to fuel and design different strategies to mitigate the effect of nanoparticles on the environment. Tools of investigation include atomistic simulations, machine learning, data science.
Violi Lab

Fei Wen

Lignocellulosic biofuels represent a promising alternative to fossil fuels for transportation. Professor Fei Wen and her group employ engineering strategies ranging from biocatalysis to synthetic biology to achieve one-step microbial conversion of biomass to ethanol.

Fei Wen – Protein Assembly Engineering Research Group

Ralph Yang

Professor Ralph Yang and his research group study carbon nanotubes and graphite nanofibers for hydrogen storage.

Sharon Glotzer
Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering; John Werner Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering; and Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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