BISfuel
Director(s):
Devens Gust
Lead Institution:
Arizona State University
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To construct a complete system for solar-powered production of hydrogen fuel via water splitting. Design principles are drawn from the fundamental concepts that underlie photosynthetic energy conversion.
Research Topics:
catalysis (homogeneous), catalysis (heterogeneous), solar (fuels), photosynthesis (natural and artificial), bio-inspired, hydrogen and fuel cells, electrodes - solar, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor, metal, oxide, biological (DNA, protein), porous, optoelectronic and metamaterial, transparent conductor
INTERFACES: organic/semiconductor, organic/oxide, organic/organic, organic/metal, metal/semiconductor, gas/solid, liquid/solid, solid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 2D, 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, surface science, ultrafast physics, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), quantum mechanics
Partner Institutions:
- Arizona State University
