emc2
Director(s):
Hector D. Abruna
Lead Institution:
Cornell University
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To advance the science of energy conversion and storage by understanding and exploiting fundamental properties of active materials and their interfaces.
Research Topics:
catalysis (homogeneous), catalysis (heterogeneous), energy storage (including batteries and capacitors), hydrogen and fuel cells, defects, charge transport, membrane, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly), synthesis (scalable processing)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, metal, oxide, polymer, ionic liquid, porous
INTERFACES: organic/oxide, organic/organic, organic/metal, metal/oxide, semiconductor/semiconductor, gas/liquid, 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, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, continuum modeling, mesoscale modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling, high-throughput screening methods
Partner Institutions:
- Cornell University
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
