Research Areas
Seven interacting research areas form the heart of the center’s focus:
Built Environment, Transportation, and Infrastructure
Smart infrastructure, resilient cities, building efficiency systems and retrofits involving faculty from the School of Architecture, microgrids and networks, green cements, cleaner burning combustion engines, electric vehicles, and water desalination technologies.
Electricity Production, Transmission, and Storage
Emerging technologies to harvest wind and solar power, nuclear fusion, power electronics and superconducting materials that enable more power transmission, grid-scale electricity storage, and modeling of power grids with high renewables penetration.
Fuels and Chemicals
Advanced fuels and chemicals from engineered microorganisms and artificial photosynthesis, development of catalysts with abundant elements, and techno-economic and lifecycle assessments of advanced biofuel production systems.