With limited natural resources and a growing global population, new materials that lower our energy consumption, reduce the environmental footprint of energy production, and decrease energy costs are increasingly critical to balance the growing demand for consumer goods and fuels with a sustainable earth. In the Department of Chemistry, our faculty seek to design and understand the processes that consume and liberate energy, harness chemical potential to drive new reactions, develop new fuels, and exploit the power of sunlight. This research bridges chemistry, materials science, physics, and process engineering. Our faculty focuses on studying relationships between structure and function, organic and inorganic materials for energy harvesting and storage, transition metal and lanthanide catalysts, reaction mechanisms,and photochemistry to find solutions to globally relevant problems in energy and catalysis.
Energy and Catalysis
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