
Leland T. Edwards Professor of Engineering
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Photon Science
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Research Interests:
Sustainable energy and chemical processes; Electronic structure theory; Materials informatics; Surface reactivity; Heterogeneous catalysis; Electro and photo catalysis; Battery chemistry; Enzyme function
Research Focus Areas:
- Electronic structure theory
- Electrocatalysis
- Photocatalysis
- Theoretical method development
- Experiment
- Descriptors
- Catalysis informatics
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Energy storage
- Bayesian error estimation functionals
- Beyond DFT
- Rate theory
- System scaling relations
- Method scaling relations
- Adsorbate-adsorbate interactions
- Adsorption models
- Dimensional data warehouse
- Analytical applications
- Fuel cell catalysis
- Electrochemical fuels
- Artificial photosynthesis
- Environmental catalysis
- Synthetic fuels and chemicals
- Metal-air batteries
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