Department of Energy to fund Cornell Energy Frontier Research Center
April 28, 2009Chemical Engineering faculty Lynden Archer, Jim Engstrom, Tobias Hanrath, and Paulette Clancy are among the roughly 25 Cornell faculty whose research will benefit from a large multi-million dollar Energy Frontier Research Center, which has been awarded funding by the Department of Energy. The new Cornell Center is focused on research on "Nanostructured Interfaces for Energy Generation, Conversion, and Storage" and will be led by Hector Abruna (Chemistry). The goal of the Center is to "understand and control the nature, structure, and dynamics of reactions at electrodes in fuel cells, batteries, solar photovolataics, and catalysts." It is an outgrowth of Cornell's successful Fuel Cell Institute and will create a new solar-PV initiative.