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Harry A. Atwater Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Project: 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 Project: Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells
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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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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 Executive Director
Secondary Affiliation: Department of Energy Resources Engineering in the School of Earth Sciences
GCEP Project: Experimental Investigations of Multiphase Flow and Trapping of CO2 in Saline Aquifers
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Stacey Bent Email | 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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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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Mark Brongersma Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study: Optical properties of metallic and semiconductor nanostructures
GCEP Project: Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells
Plasmonic Photovoltaics
Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells
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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
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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 Project: Electrocatalysis with Discrete Transition Metal Complexes
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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 Project: 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 Project: 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: Battery Electrodes with Nanowire Architectures
Exploratory Project - Nanowire-Nanocrystal Multiexciton Solar Cells
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Hongjie Dai Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Chemistry, Stanford University
GCEP Project: 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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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: 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 Project: Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells
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Scott Fendorf Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Geological and Environmental Sciences, 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 Washington's 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 Project: Technology Potential of Biofuels: Feasibility Assessment
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Yuichi Fujioka Email | Lab
Department Affiliation: Chemical Research Group, RITE
GCEP Project: Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes
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David Golden Email | Bio
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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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 | Lab
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 Project: Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells
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Arthur Grossman Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford University, 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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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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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
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 Huggins Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Project: 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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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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Shingo Kazama Email | Lab
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 Project: Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes
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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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Ripudaman Malhotra Email
Department Affiliation: Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, SRI
GCEP Project: Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels
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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 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
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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 Project: Metal Oxide Nanotubes and Photo-Excitation Effects: New Approaches for Low-to-Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
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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 Project: Technology Potential of Biofuels: Feasibility Assessment
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Anders R. Nilsson Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Secondary Affiliation: Geological and Environmental Sciences
GCEP Project: 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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Franklin "Lynn" M. Orr, Jr. Email | Bio
Department Affiliation: Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation: 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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Cor J. Peters Email | Bio | Lab
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 Email
Department Affiliation: Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study: Organic and Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Devices for Energy Conversion
GCEP Projects: Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells
Molecular Solar Cells
Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells
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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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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
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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 Project: Exploratory Project - Nanostructured ZnO as a Solution-Processable Transparent Electrode Material for Low Cost Photovoltaics
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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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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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Christopher Somerville Email | Bio | Lab
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 Project: Biohydrogen Generation
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Daniel Stack Email | Bio | Lab
Department Affiliation: Chemistry, Stanford University
Area of Study: Bio-Inspired Oxidation Catalysis
GCEP Project: Electrocatalysis with Discrete Transition Metal Complexes
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Jonathan F. Stebbins Email | Bio
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: Direct Solar Biohydrogen
Biohydrogen Generation
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James Sweeney Email | Bio | Lab
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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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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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 Project: 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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Katsunori Yogo Email | Lab
Department Affiliation: Research Institute for Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
GCEP Project: Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes
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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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