Director(s):
Maureen McCann
Lead Institution:
Purdue University
Mission:
To integrate fundamental knowledge and enable technologies for catalytic conversion of engineered biomass to advanced biofuels and value-added products.
Research Topics:
catalysis (homogeneous), catalysis (heterogeneous), biofuels (including algae and biomass), bio-inspired, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (self-assembly), synthesis (scalable processing)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: metal, polymer, cellulose, biological (DNA, protein)
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 3D, nanocomposites
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray imaging, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, neutron diffraction and scattering, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), quantum mechanics, classical mechanics
Partner Institutions:
- Argonne National Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Northeastern University
- Purdue University
- University of Tennessee