Director(s):
Berend Smit
Lead Institution:
University of California, Berkeley
Mission:
To develop new strategies and materials that allow for energy efficient gas separations based on molecule-specific chemical interactions, with a focus on carbon capture.
Research Topics:
membrane, carbon capture, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly), synthesis (scalable processing)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: polymer, ionic liquid, porous
INTERFACES: gas/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, mesoscale modeling, multiscale modeling, high-throughput screening methods
Partner Institutions:
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- University of Minnesota
- National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Texas A&M University