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Research Centers
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CURB focuses on innovative projects that combine research, education, commercialization, workforce development, and efforts to promote diversity and inclusion, all aimed at driving positive societal change.
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CASE is focused on the advancement of knowledge through aerosol science and technology in the areas of energy, environment, materials and health. |
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CEMB seeks to advance the study of mechanical forces in molecules, cells, and tissues in plants and animals. |
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CWI supports collaborative research that enables sustainable water and wastewater management and addresses the nexuses of water-energy, water-environment, water-health and water-food. |
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The CCCU’s goal is to foster the use of coal as a safe and affordable source of energy and as a chemical feedstock, with minimal impact on the environment. |
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The GEOS-Chem community goal is to advance the understanding of human and natural influences on the environment through a comprehensive, state-of-the-science, readily accessible global model of atmospheric composition, named GEOS-Chem. |
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IMSE provides an interdisciplinary approach to provide the greatest opportunities for unprecedented discoveries and educates the next generation of materials scientists. |
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SMARC's goal is to combat plastic waste by creating a circular bioplastic economy that eliminates non-biodegradable plastics from polluting land and sea. To accomplish this, researchers are designing synthetic biological materials (SBMs) or bio-derived polymeric materials with highly tunable properties produced by microorganisms.
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Ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is the leading environmental risk factor for the global burden of disease. SPARTAN measures globally-distributed fine particulate concentrations to evaluate and enhance satellite remote sensing estimates of PM2.5. |
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Shared Facilities
The Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering maintains a set of shared facilities as outlined below. The facilities range from routine chemical, physical and materials characterization facilities, to state-of-the-art nanomaterials synthesis facilities.
These facilities are available to researchers in the department and others at the university, local region and worldwide.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration and partnership with academia and industry
- Synthesis and characterization of materials using inbuilt instrumentation techniques
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- Spectroscopic and temporal characterization of ultrafast photophysical processes
- Broad range of materials - natural light harvesting complexes and pigments, semiconductor films and nanoparticles, solar cells, and synthetic dyes
- Coordinator: Vijay Ramani
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Solar Energy and Energy Storage
- Advance solar energy conversion technologies by promoting development of new materials, devices and system level scale-ups
- Electrochemical characterization
- Coordinator: Vijay Ramani
- Focuses on the advancement of science and technology of aerosol systems
- Characterize fundamental aerosol formation and transformation processes to determine impacts on the Environment, Climate, and Human Health
- Coordinators: Ben Kumfer & Jian Wang
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