Renewables

• Bioenergy
  
  • Capturing Electrical Current via Microbes to Produce Methane
  • Lignin Management: Optimizing Yield and Composition in Lignin-Modified Plants
  • Sustainable Transportation Energy with Net Negative Carbon Emissions
  • The Pyrolysis-Bioenergy-Biochar Pathway to Carbon-Negative Energy
• Solar Photovoltaics
  
  • High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Using Nanoscale Light Management
  • Nanostructures for Light Trapping in High-efficiency, Low-cost Silicon Solar Cells
  • Novel Inorganic-Organic Perovskites for Solution Processable Photovoltaics
• Solar Water Splitting
  
  • Maximizing Solar-to-Fuel Conversion Efficiency in Photo-Electrochemical Cells with Heat and Concentrated Sunlight
  • Novel Contacts for Efficient Coupling of Photovoltaics and Catalysts
• Other Solar Conversion
  
  • Nighttime Radiative Cooling: Harvesting the Darkness of the Universe
  • Using First-principles Simulations to Discover Materials with Ultra-low Work Functions for Energy Conversion Applications

Hydrogen

• Biohydrogen
  
  • Efficient, Highly Productive Hydrogen Production from Glucose

Carbon-Based Energy Systems

• Advanced Combustion
  
  • The Sootless Diesel
  • Use of Mixed Combustion and Electrochemical Energy for Engines
• Advanced Coal
  
  • Co-Production of Hydrogen and Electricity in Carbon Fuel Cells
• CO₂ Capture
  
  • Carbon Capture Systems Analysis: Comparing Exergy Efficiency and Electricity Cost of Various Technology Options
  • Carbon-based Sorbents for Selective CO₂ Capture
  • New Materials and Processes for Energy-Efficient Carbon Capture in the Presence of Water Vapor
  • Novel Ionic Liquids for Pre-Combustion CO₂ Capture
  • Systems Analysis of Advanced Power Plant Carbon Capture Technologies
• CO₂ Storage
  
  • Multiphase Flow of CO₂ and Water in Reservoir Rocks

Electrochemistry and Electric Grid

• Batteries for Advanced Transportation
  
  • A High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Battery with Self-Healing Polymers
• Electrocatalysis
  
  • Designing Metal Catalysts for Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ and CO to Fuels and Chemicals
  • Electrochemical Tuning of Electronic Structures for Highly Active Electrocatalysts
  • Electrohydrogenation: Enabling Science for Renewable Fuels
  • Nanostructured Copper Electrodes for Energy-efficient Conversion of CO₂ to Fuel
  • Reducing Carbon Dioxide to Oxalic Acid Using Copper-Based Electrocatalysts
• Grid Storage
  
  • A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery
  • Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems
  • Photo-Electrochemically Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries

Other Research

• Exploratory Research
  • Enhancing Hydride Thermodynamics Through Nanostructuring
  • New Pathways Towards High Performance Transparent Conductive Oxides
  • Gas Molecules as the Next-Generation Thermoelectric: Extracting Electricity from Hot Gas with No Moving Parts