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Rolf Arvidson	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Earth Science, Rice University
GCEP Project:	Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO₂ Injection to Geophysical Parameters
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Gregory Asner	Email \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institute of Science
Secondary Affiliation:	Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
GCEP Project:	The Climate-Protective Domain
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Alan Aspuru-Guzik	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
GCEP Project:	Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells
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Harry A. Atwater	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Projects:	Plasmonic Photovoltaics Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water
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Khalid Aziz	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Numerical Models of Petroleum Reservoirs and Production Facilities. Sequestration of CO₂. Optimization
GCEP Project:	A Numerical Simulation Framework for CO₂ Sequestration
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Zhenan Bao	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Organic electronic materials and flexible electronics, self-assembly, carbon nanotube based flexible electronics, organic solar cells
GCEP Projects:	Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells
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Allen Bard	Email \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas - Austin
GCEP Project:	Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems
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David M. Barnett	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering (Division of Mechanics and Computation)
Area of Study:	Fuel Cell and Atomic Force Microscopy Modeling, Dislocations and Waves in Anisotropic Elastic Media, Stress Analysis
GCEP Project:	Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements of PEM Fuel Cells Processes
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Scott Barnett	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering
GCEP Project:	A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilitizing H-C-O Chemistry
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Ray Baughman	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	NanoTech Institute, University of Texas - Dallas
GCEP Project:	Low-Cost Flywheel Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Power Generation
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Larry Baxter	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University
Secondary Affiliation:	Associate Director, Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center (ACERC), Brigham Young University
Area of Study:	Sustainable Energy and Thermal Processing of Low-Grade Fuels
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Project - A Collaborative Research Effort on Integration of Coal Energy Conversion with Aquifer-Based Carbon Sequestration (Brigham Young University)
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Shawn Benner	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Geosciences, Boise State University
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Projects - Increasing Carbon Storage Within Soils by Controlling Key Microbial Respiration Processes
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Sally Benson	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	GCEP Director
Secondary Affiliation:	Department of Energy Resources Engineering in the School of Earth Sciences
GCEP Projects:	Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO₂ Injection to Geophysical Parameters Experimental Investigations of Multiphase Flow and Trapping of CO₂ in Saline Aquifers
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Stacey Bent	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Ophthalmology, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Semiconductor Processing and Reactivity, Surface Science, Materials Chemistry
GCEP Project:	Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD
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Dennis K Bird	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
GCEP Projects:	Reactivity of CO₂ in the Subsurface Exploratory Project - Geological Sequestration of CO₂ – An Exploratory Study of the Mechanisms and Kinetics of CO₂ Reaction with Mg-Silicates
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Wout Boerjan	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University
Secondary Affiliation:	Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics
GCEP Project:	Towards New Degradable Lignin Types
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Craig T. Bowman	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering - Thermosciences, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Combustion and its Environmental Impact, Reacting Flows, Active Combustion Control
GCEP Projects:	Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels Controlled Combustion
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Paul Braun	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Material Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry
Secondary Affiliation:	Micro and Nanotechnology Lab
GCEP Project:	Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter
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Robert Braun	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines
GCEP Project:	A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilitizing H-C-O Chemistry
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Mark Brongersma	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Optical properties of metallic and semiconductor nanostructures
GCEP Projects:	Plasmonic Photovoltaics Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells
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Gordon Brown	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
GCEP Projects:	Reactivity of CO₂ in the Subsurface Exploratory Project - Geological Sequestration of CO₂ – An Exploratory Study of the Mechanisms and Kinetics of CO₂ Reaction with Mg-Silicates
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Qingdong Cai	Email
Department Affiliation:	Peking University
GCEP Project:	Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China
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Mark Cappelli	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering - Thermosciences, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Plasma Spectroscopy, Plasma Propulsion, Plasma and Combustion Synthesis of Materials
GCEP Projects:	Exploratory Project - Plasma Activated Fuel Cells Exploratory Project - Advanced Thermionic Energy Converters Exploratory Project - Fundamental Studies of Plasma Air Separation
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Clint Chapple	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Biochemistry
Area of Study:	Biochemistry and molecular biology of plant secondary metabolism
GCEP Project:	Assembly of a Lignin Modification Toolbox
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Christopher Chidsey	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Chemistry, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Interfacial Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Nanoelectronics and Molecular Electron Transfer
GCEP Projects:	The Electron Economy: Oxidation Catalysis for Energy Management Electrocatalysis with Discrete Transition Metal Complexes
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Joe Chow	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Secondary Affiliation:	Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering
GCEP Project:	Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration
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Bruce Clemens	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Applied Physics, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Area of Study:	Structure and Reaction Kinetics in Nanostructured Materials
GCEP Projects:	C-H Bonds in Carbon Nanotubes as an Energy Carrier Nanomaterials Engineering for Hydrogen Storage
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Gavin Conibeer	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Centre of Excellence for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaic and Photonics, University of New South Wales
Area of Study:	Third Generation or Advanced Photovoltaics
GCEP Projects:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells
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Yi Cui	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Nanowires and Nanocrystals for Energy Science, Nanoelectornics and Biosensing
GCEP Projects:	Safe, Inexpensive, and Very High Power Batteries For Use To Reduce Short Term Transients on the Electric Grid Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Battery Electrodes with Nanowire Architectures Exploratory Project - Nanowire-Nanocrystal Multiexciton Solar Cells Exploratory Project - Spectroscopic Characterization of Multi-Exciton Generation Efficiency in Nano-Structured Materials
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Hongjie Dai	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Chemistry, Stanford University
GCEP Projects:	C-H Bonds in Carbon Nanotubes as an Energy Carrier Nanomaterials Engineering for Hydrogen Storage
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Jan Wilco Dijkstra	Email
Department Affiliation:	Unit Clean Fossil Fuels, System Assessment Group, ECN
Secondary Affiliation:	Unit Energy Efficiency in Industry, ECN
Area of Study:	System Assessments, Clean Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamic Modelling, Membrane Reactor Technology
GCEP Project:	Advanced Membrane Reactors for Carbon-Free Fossil Fuel Conversion
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Jennifer Dionne	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Plasmonic and nanocrystalline metamaterials for nanoscale optical manipulation, imaging, computation, and solar-energy conversion
GCEP Project:	Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion
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Louis Durlofsky	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Reservoir Simulation, Upscaling, Modeling and Optimizing Advanced Wells, Modeling CO₂ Sequestration
GCEP Project:	A Numerical Simulation Framework for CO₂ Sequestration
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Kristina Edström	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Materials Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden
GCEP Project:	A Quantum Leap Forward for Li-Ion Battery Cathodes
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Chris Edwards	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Combustion, Engines, Sprays, Energy Systems
GCEP Projects:	The Sootless Diesel: Use of In-Plume Fuel Transformation to Enable Hight-Load, High-Efficiency, Clean Combustion An Extreme Compression Approach to Low-Irreversibility Piston Engines Low Exergy Loss Chemical Engines Development of Low-Irreversibility Engines
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Shanhui Fan	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Projects:	Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells
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Shaoli Fang	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	NanoTech Institute, University of Texas - Dallas
GCEP Project:	Low-Cost Flywheel Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Power Generation
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Scott Fendorf	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Soil and Environmental BioGeochemistry
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Projects - Increasing Carbon Storage Within Soils by Controlling Key Microbial Respiration Processes
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Christopher Field	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Carnegie Institution of Science, Department of Global Ecology, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Feasibility study to assess biological, ecological, and economic limits to biofuels production
GCEP Projects:	The Climate-Protective Domain Technology Potential of Biofuels: Feasibility Assessment
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Alan Friedman	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Biological Sciences
GCEP Project:	Assembly of a Lignin Modification Toolbox
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Yuichi Fujioka	Email \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Research Group, RITE
GCEP Projects:	Advanced CO2/H2 Separation Materials Incorporating Active Functional Agents Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes
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Kelly Gaffney	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Project - Spectroscopic Characterization of Multi-Exciton Generation Efficiency in Nano-Structured Materials
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David Golden	Email
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering - Thermosciences, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Chemical Kinetics Related to Combustion and the Atmosphere
GCEP Projects:	Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels Hydrogen Effects on Climate, Stratospheric Ozone, and Air Pollution Process Informatics
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David Goldhaber-Gordon	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Physics, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Arrangement and flow of electrons in semiconductor nanostructures
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Project - Nanotube Networks as Transparent Electrodes for Solar Cells
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Bin Gong	Email
Department Affiliation:	Peking University
GCEP Project:	Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China
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David Goodwin	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Project:	Nanoscale Architectural Engineering for High Performance Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
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Harry B. Gray	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Project:	Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water
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Martin Green	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, University of New South Wales
Secondary Affiliation:	Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering
Area of Study:	Photovoltaics, Semiconductors, Physics of Energy Conversion
GCEP Projects:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells
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Arthur Grossman	Email \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Carnegie Institution of Science, Department of Plant Biology
Secondary Affiliation:	Biology Department, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Genetics and Genomics of Acclimation in Photosynthetic Organisms
GCEP Project:	Photosynthetic Bioelectricity
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Jean-Francois Guillemoles	Email
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
GCEP Project:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter
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Turgut Gur	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Secondary Affiliation:	Center on Nanstructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Project - Carbon-ion Conducting Thin Film Membranes Towards Efficient CO₂ Separation
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Torbjörn Gustafsson	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Materials Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden
GCEP Project:	A Quantum Leap Forward for Li-Ion Battery Cathodes
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Wim Haije	Email
Department Affiliation:	Unit Energy Efficiency in Industry, ECN
Secondary Affiliation:	Unit Clean Fossil Fuels, ECN
Area of Study:	Solid Sorption Heat Pumps, Mixed Conducting Membranes, Molecular Separations
GCEP Project:	Advanced Membrane Reactors for Carbon-Free Fossil Fuel Conversion
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Sossina M. Haile	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Project:	Nanoscale Architectural Engineering for High Performance Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
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Claire Halpin	Email \| Lab
Area of Study:	Plant Sciences
GCEP Project:	Novel Mutants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via Re-Mutagenesis
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Ronald Hanson	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering - Thermosciences, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Aeronautics/Astronautics
Area of Study:	Combustion and Propulsion Science, Laser Diagnostics and Sensing
GCEP Projects:	Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels Sensors for Advanced Combustion Systems
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James Harris	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Electrical Engineering - Solid State Photonics Laboratory, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Nanofabrication, Optoelectronics, Non-linear Optics, Single Electron Devices, Quantum Computing
GCEP Project:	Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD
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Jerry M. Harris	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Geophysics, Stanford University
GCEP Projects:	Geologic Storage of CO₂ in Coal Beds Geophysical Monitoring of Geologic Sequestration
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Robert Hebner	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Center for Electromechanics, University of Texas - Austin
GCEP Project:	Low-Cost Flywheel Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Power Generation
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Roger Howe	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Project:	Using First-principles Simulations to Discover Materials with Ultra-low Work Functions for Energy Conversion Applications
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Robert Huggins	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Projects:	Safe, Inexpensive, and Very High Power Batteries For Use To Reduce Short Term Transients on the Electric Grid Exploratory Project - High Voltage Alloys for Lithium Battery Cathodes
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Mark Z. Jacobson	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology
GCEP Project:	Hydrogen Effects on Climate, Stratospheric Ozone, and Air Pollution
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Daniel Jansen	Email
Department Affiliation:	Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, ECN
Secondary Affiliation:	Programme Manager, Business Unit Clean Fossil Fuels, ECN
Area of Study:	Clean Fossil Fuels, Energy Conversion, thermodynamics and systems Assessments
GCEP Project:	Advanced Membrane Reactors for Carbon-Free Fossil Fuel Conversion
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Thomas Jaramillo	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering
GCEP Projects:	Nature-Inspired Solid-State Electrocatalysts: The Oxidation of Water and the Reduction of CO₂ to Fuels Exploratory Project - Nanostructured MoS₂ and WS₂ for the Solar Production of Hydrogen
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Patrick Jenny	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH
Area of Study:	Fluid Science and Engineering, Aerospace Engineering
GCEP Project:	A Numerical Simulation Framework for CO₂ Sequestration
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Kristian Jessen	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
GCEP Project:	Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China
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Shingo Kazama	Email
Department Affiliation:	Research Institute for Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
Area of Study:	Membrane Science and Technology, Polymer Science, CO₂ Separation and Capture Technology
GCEP Projects:	Advanced CO2/H2 Separation Materials Incorporating Active Functional Agents Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes
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Robert Kee	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines
GCEP Project:	A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilitizing H-C-O Chemistry
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Chaitan Khosla	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Chemistry, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Natural Product Biosynthesis, Biomedicine, Protein Engineering, Metabolism
GCEP Project:	Microbial Synthesis of Biodiesel
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Anthony Kovscek	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Earth Systems, SUPRI-A
Area of Study:	Multiphase Transport in Porous Media, Energy Systems, Hydrocarbon Production
GCEP Projects:	Geologic Storage of CO₂ in Coal Beds Rapid Prediction of Subsurface CO₂ Movement
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Nathan Lewis	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Project:	Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water
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Yilian Li	Email
Department Affiliation:	China University of Geosciences-Wuhan
GCEP Project:	Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China
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David Lobell	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Environmental Earth System Science
Secondary Affiliation:	Center Fellow in Stanford's Program on Food Security and the Environment
Area of Study:	Identifying opportunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, with a particular emphasis on adaptation to climate change.
GCEP Project:	The Climate-Protective Domain
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Antonio Luque	Email \| Bio
GCEP Project:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter
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Andreas Luttge	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Earth Science, Rice University
GCEP Project:	Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO₂ Injection to Geophysical Parameters
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Kate Maher	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Geological and Environmental Science
GCEP Projects:	Reactivity of CO₂ in the Subsurface Exploratory Project - Geological Sequestration of CO₂ – An Exploratory Study of the Mechanisms and Kinetics of CO₂ Reaction with Mg-Silicates
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Ripudaman Malhotra	Email
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, SRI
GCEP Project:	Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels
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Wendy Mao	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Project - Geological Sequestration of CO₂ – An Exploratory Study of the Mechanisms and Kinetics of CO₂ Reaction with Mg-Silicates Exploratory Project - High Capacity Molecular Hydrogen Storage in Novel Crystalline Solids
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Antonio Marti	Email
GCEP Project:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter
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Gary Mavko	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Geophysics
GCEP Project:	Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO₂ Injection to Geophysical Parameters
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Michael D. McGehee	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Electrical and Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors.
GCEP Projects:	Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Exploratory Project - Nanotube Networks as Transparent Electrodes for Solar Cells Exploratory Project - Spectroscopic Characterization of Multi-Exciton Generation Efficiency in Nano-Structured Materials
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Paul McIntyre	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Deputy Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Nano-Structured Materials for Electronic and Electrochemical Eevices
GCEP Projects:	Metal Oxide Nanotubes and Photo-Excitation Effects: New Approaches for Low-to-Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Exploratory Project - Multijunction Nanowire Solar Cells for Inexpensive and Highly Efficient Photoelectricity: Enabling Methods
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Nick Melosh	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering
Secondary Affiliation:	Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
GCEP Project:	Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems
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Jeremy P Meyers	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering
GCEP Project:	Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems
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Reginald E. Mitchell	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering - Thermosciences, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Coal and Biomass Combustion and Gasification; Pollutant Formation during Combustion
GCEP Projects:	Coal Energy Conversion with Aquifer-Based Carbon Sequestration Exploratory Project - A Collaborative Research Effort on Integration of Coal Energy Coal and Biomass Char Reactivity
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Rosamond Lee Naylor	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Julie Wrigley Senior Fellow in Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University
GCEP Projects:	The Climate-Protective Domain Technology Potential of Biofuels: Feasibility Assessment
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Anders R. Nilsson	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Secondary Affiliation:	Geological and Environmental Sciences
GCEP Projects:	C-H Bonds in Carbon Nanotubes as an Energy Carrier Nanomaterials Engineering for Hydrogen Storage
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Yoshio Nishi	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Material Science & Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Resistance Change Memory, Vertical MOS devices, Bio FETs, and Solar cells and dye sensitization
GCEP Project:	Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells
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Jens Norskov	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Center for Interface Science and Catalysis (CISC), SLAC
Secondary Affiliation:	Atmosphere / Energy, Photon Science (SLAC)
Area of Study:	Photon Science
GCEP Projects:	Using First-principles Simulations to Discover Materials with Ultra-low Work Functions for Energy Conversion Applications Nature-Inspired Solid-State Electrocatalysts: The Oxidation of Water and the Reduction of CO₂ to Fuels
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Franklin "Lynn" M. Orr, Jr.	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Director, Precourt Institute for Energy
Secondary Affiliation:	Energy Resources Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Geologic Sequestration of CO₂, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
GCEP Projects:	Geologic Storage of CO₂ in Coal Beds Rapid Prediction of Subsurface CO₂ Movement
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Thomas Overbye	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Area of Study:	Power and Energy Systems
GCEP Project:	Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration
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Alexander Papandrew	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
GCEP Project:	Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems
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Cor J. Peters	Email
Department Affiliation:	Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Molecular Thermodynamics, Delft University of Technology
Secondary Affiliation:	Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
Area of Study:	Applied Thermodynamics, High Pressure Phase Equilibria: Ionic Liquids, Hydrogen Storage and Supercritical Fluids
GCEP Project:	Advanced Membrane Reactors for Carbon-Free Fossil Fuel Conversion
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Peter Peumans	Bio
Department Affiliation:	Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Organic and Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Devices for Energy Conversion
GCEP Projects:	Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Molecular Solar Cells Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells
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Piero A Pianetta	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Deputy Director, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
GCEP Project:	Using First-principles Simulations to Discover Materials with Ultra-low Work Functions for Energy Conversion Applications
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Peter Pinsky	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Civil Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Computational Mechanics: Fuel Cell Modeling
GCEP Project:	Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements of PEM Fuel Cells Processes
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Heinz Pitsch	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Computational Energy Sciences, Combustion Modeling, Fuel Cells
GCEP Project:	Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels
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Albert Polman	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Debye Institute, Surfaces, Interfaces and Devices
GCEP Project:	Plasmonic Photovoltaics
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Siddharth Pratap	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Center for Electromechanics, University of Texas - Austin
GCEP Project:	Low-Cost Flywheel Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Power Generation
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Fritz Prinz	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Materials Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Fuel Cells and Bio-sensing
GCEP Projects:	Battery Electrodes with Nanowire Architectures Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ceramic Materials for Fuel Cells Exploratory Project - Feasibility of a Novel Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion Device Micro- and Nano-Scale Electrochemistry Applied to Fuel Cells Monitoring Bioconversion Processes Exploratory Project - Carbon-ion Conducting Thin Film Membranes Towards Efficient CO₂ Separation
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John Ralph	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Dept of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin
Secondary Affiliation:	Dept. Biological Systems Engineering
Area of Study:	Lignin Biosynthesis
GCEP Project:	Efficient Biomass Conversion: Delineating the Best Lignin Monomer-Substitutes
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Shriram Ramanathan	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
GCEP Project:	Metal Oxide Nanotubes and Photo-Excitation Effects: New Approaches for Low-to-Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
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Frank Rosenzweig	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
Area of Study:	Ecology and Evolution of Microbes including Yeast: Genetics and Metabolism
GCEP Project:	Directed Evolution of Novel Yeast Species
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Alberto Salleo	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	GCEP Exploratory Effort: Nanostructured ZnO as a Solution-Processable Transparent Electrode Material for Low Cost Photovoltaics
GCEP Projects:	Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Exploratory Project - Nanostructured ZnO as a Solution-Processable Transparent Electrode Material for Low Cost Photovoltaics
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Timothy Schmidt	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
GCEP Project:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter
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Joop Schoonman	Email \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, Delft University of Technology
Area of Study:	Nanostructured materials for conversion and storage of sustainable energy. Hydrogen Economy.
GCEP Project:	Advanced Membrane Reactors for Carbon-Free Fossil Fuel Conversion
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Alan Sellinger	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
GCEP Project:	Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)
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Zhi-Xun Shen	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM)
Secondary Affiliation:	Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Area of Study:	Applied Physics
GCEP Project:	Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems
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Gavin Sherlock	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Genetics, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Yeast Evolution, Five Carbon Sugar Metabolism, Microarrays, Genomics, Bioinformatics
GCEP Project:	Directed Evolution of Novel Yeast Species
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Gorden Simpson	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Plant Sciences
GCEP Project:	Novel Mutants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via Re-Mutagenesis
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Christopher Somerville	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Carnegie Institution
Area of Study:	Genetic Engineering of Biomass Polysaccharide Composition
GCEP Project:	Genetic Engineering of Cellulose Accumulation
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Alfred Spormann	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Projects:	Synthesis of Biofuels on Bioelectrodes Capturing Electrical Current via Mechanisms Used for Interspecies Electron Transfer to Produce Methane Biohydrogen Generation
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Daniel Stack	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Chemistry, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Bio-Inspired Oxidation Catalysis
GCEP Projects:	The Electron Economy: Oxidation Catalysis for Energy Management Electrocatalysis with Discrete Transition Metal Complexes
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Aleksandar Stankovic	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Electrical and Computer Engr. Dept.
GCEP Project:	Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration
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Jonathan F. Stebbins	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Project:	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ceramic Materials for Fuel Cells
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James Swartz	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Projects:	Efficient, Highly Productive Hydrogen Production from Glucose Direct Solar Biohydrogen Biohydrogen Generation Exploratory Project - Efficient Cell-Free Hydrogen Production from Glucose
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James Sweeney	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Area of Study:	Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources: Policy and Analysis
GCEP Project:	Integrated Assessment of Technology Options
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Jean-Marie Tarascon	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Laboratoire de Reactivite et de Chimie des Solides
GCEP Project:	High-Energy Organic Battery Electrodes
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Hamdi Tchelepi	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Project:	A Numerical Simulation Framework for CO₂ Sequestration
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Josh Thomas	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Materials Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden
GCEP Project:	A Quantum Leap Forward for Li-Ion Battery Cathodes
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Kevin Tomsovic	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Power Systems Optimization
GCEP Project:	Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration
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Dale Tree	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University
Secondary Affiliation:	http://www-acerc.byu.edu/Personnel/Tree.html
Area of Study:	Oxyfuel, Diesel, Coal, Biomass
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Project - A Collaborative Research Effort on Integration of Coal Energy Conversion with Aquifer-Based Carbon Sequestration (Brigham Young University)
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Ruud van den Brink	Email
Department Affiliation:	Department of Catalytic Emission Reduction, Clean Fossil Fuels, ECN
Area of Study:	Development of Sorbents and Catalysts for CO₂ Capture and Emission Reduction of NOx, CH₄, N₂O, NH₃ and Particulates
GCEP Project:	Advanced Membrane Reactors for Carbon-Free Fossil Fuel Conversion
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Robert Waymouth	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Chemistry, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Transition Metal Catalysis for Olefin Polymerization and Hydrocarbon Oxidation
GCEP Projects:	The Electron Economy: Oxidation Catalysis for Energy Management Electrocatalysis with Discrete Transition Metal Complexes
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John Weyant	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Energy Modeling Forum, IIS
Area of Study:	Energy Modeling, Energy Technology Assessment
GCEP Project:	Integrated Assessment of Technology Options
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H.-S. Philip Wong	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	The Stanford Nanotechnology/Nanoelectronics group
GCEP Project:	Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells
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Koichi Yamada	Email \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
GCEP Project:	Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes
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Dmitry Yandulov	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Project - Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation to Dioxygen in Molecular PdII/IV Coordination Environment
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Katsunori Yogo	Email \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Research Institute for Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
GCEP Projects:	Advanced CO2/H2 Separation Materials Incorporating Active Functional Agents Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes
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Richard Zare	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry
GCEP Project:	Exploratory Project - Development of an Immobilized Enzyme System for Lignocellulosic Biomass Saccharification
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Thomas Zawodzinski, Jr.	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
GCEP Project:	Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems
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Dongxiao Zhang	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California
Secondary Affiliation:	Water Resources & Petroleum Engineering
GCEP Project:	Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China
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Mark Zoback	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Geophysics, Stanford University
Area of Study:	CO₂ Sequestration
GCEP Projects:	Geologic Storage of CO₂ in Coal Beds Seal Capacity of Potential CO₂ Sequestration Sites
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