Director(s):
Robert E. Blankenship
Lead Institution:
Washington University in St. Louis
Mission:
To maximize photosynthetic antenna efficiency in living organisms and to fabricate robust micron-scale biohybrid light-harvesting systems to drive chemical processes or generate photocurrent.
Research Topics:
solar (fuels), photosynthesis (natural and artificial), biofuels (including algae and biomass), bio-inspired, charge transport, membrane, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: biological (DNA, protein), optoelectronic and metamaterial
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, near-field scanning optical microscopy, lithography, surface science, neutron diffraction and scattering, ultrafast physics, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), mesoscale modeling, next generation optimization methods, high-throughput screening methods
Partner Institutions:
- University of California, Riverside
- University of Glasgow, UK
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- University of New Mexico
- New Mexico Consortium
- North Carolina State University
- Northwestern University
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- University of Pennsylvania
- Sandia National Laboratories
- University of Sheffield, UK
- Washington University in St. Louis