CNEEC
Director(s):
Fritz Prinz and Stacey Bent
Lead Institution:
Stanford University
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To understand how nanostructuring can enhance efficiency for energy conversion and to solve fundamental cross-cutting problems in advanced energy conversion and storage systems.
Research Topics:
catalysis (heterogeneous), solar (fuels), photosynthesis (natural and artificial), bio-inspired, electrodes - solar, defects, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, metal, oxide, ionic liquid, optoelectronic and metamaterial
INTERFACES: metal/semiconductor, metal/oxide, semiconductor/semiconductor, gas/solid, liquid/solid, solid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, nanocomposites
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, surface science, density functional theory (DFT), quantum mechanics, multiscale modeling
Partner Institutions:
- Carnegie Institution (at Stanford)
- Technical University of Denmark
- Stanford University
