Mihaela Banu develops natural fiber composites - green composites - with high mechanical properties such as strength and stiffness.
Actively researching synthetic and renewable fuels with ultra low GHG content and internal combustion engines to use those fuels efficiently.
Direct CO2 Investigates whether CDR makes people more or less likely to participate in other environmentally-related decisions.
Direct CO2 Researches carbon sequestration and storage, and the conversion of algae into usable fuel.
Researches how to reduce global and local environmental impacts of electric power and other energy systems.
Expert on soils, land management, and carbon cycle.
Evaluates and tests hierarchically structured nanocatalysts for efficient chemical transformation of CO2 by high temperature tandem photocatalysis.
Jonathan Fay focuses his efforts on facilitating and inspiring entrepreneurship and innovation in PhDs, Postdocs, and Faculty.
Researches carbon issues related to forestry management and carbon storage.
Specializes in understanding the role of the media in motivating and engaging the public and how to create effective messages that can cross ideological divides.
Research focused on the market and cultural implications of sustainability issues.
Studies the evolution of sex and reproductive traits of fungi.
Greg Keoleian’s research focuses on the development and application of life cycle models and sustainability metrics to guide the design and improvement of products and technology.
Nicholas Kotov is working on conceptual foundations and technical realizations of biomimetic nanostructures.
David is interested in developing low-cost, energy-efficient and scalable electrochemical methods for CO2 separation from flue gas and atmosphere.
Investigates the technical, economic, and social feasibility of motor vehicle onboard carbon capture.
Victor Li leads the research group that invented the world's most ductile concrete in use in tall buildings and long bridges today.
Investigates tripartite bacteria systems to produce feedstocks.
Conducts empirical research with the aim of providing an evidence base to support the design and planning of environments that perform ecologically, socially and culturally for more sustainable outcomes.
Christophe is leading globally the Technical Economic Analysis (TEA) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) activities within the Global CO2 Initiative.
Investigates tripartite bacteria systems to produce feedstocks.
Researches the electrochemical reduction of CO2 and H2O for the conversion of intermittent energy sources to chemical fuels.
Conversion of CO2 to fuels through solar powered artificial photosynthesis
Shelie Miller develops life-cycle assessment models with an emphasis on emerging technologies.
Studies microbial CO and CO2 metabolism, testing the coupling of low potential enzyme mediators to reduce gaseous CO2 to solid oxalate at STP.
Researches how social motivations have the potential to promote or prevent sustainable behaviors.
Researches fundamental and applied problems in heterogeneous catalysis, sensors, and energy storage materials.
Develops new biochemical and molecular techniques to better monitor in situ microbial communities.
Nirala is interested in the life cycle and technoeconomic analysis of electrochemical CO2 conversion as well as studying the fundamental mechanism of heterogeneous electrocatalytic processes using kinetics and in situ spectroscopy.
Produces mathematical carbon modeling for least cost deployment strategies to achieve carbon negativity.
Investigates political communication, the sources and/or structure of public preferences for policy, and the relationships between public policy, public opinion, and mass media.
Alan Taub develops reinforced natural fibers by adding nanoparticles (carbon nanotubes and/or metal nanoparticles) in plants as they are growing.
Studies the mass media and their impact on American politics.
Researches public acceptance of scientific claims and motivated reasoning in the context of climate change.
Investigates the molecular mechanisms responsible for the assembly and spatial regulation of a CO2-fixing bacterial organelle called the carboxysome.
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Direct CO2 capture from power plants and chemical processing facilities offers an effective path to avoid CO2 release into the atmosphere.
Utilizes and stores CO2 in infrastructure materials