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2010 Technical Report

1. Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Research Activities -- Progress Reports
2.1 Hydrogen Production, Distribution and Use
2.1.1 Introduction to Hydrogen Production, Distribution and Use
2.1.2 C-H Bonds in Carbon Nanotubes as an Energy Carrier
Anders Nilsson, Bruce Clemens, and Hongjie Dai
2.2 Renewable Energy - Solar
2.2.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy - Solar
2.2.2 Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes
Zhenan Bao
2.2.3 Photo-electric Enhancement of Thermionic Emission
Nick Melosh and Zhi-Xun Shen
2.2.4 Ultra-High Efficiency Thermo-Photovoltaic Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter
Shanhui Fan, Peter Peumans, and Paul Braun
2.2.5 Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate PV Converter
Gavin Conibeer, Martin Green, Jean-François Guillemoles, Tim Schmidt, Antonio Marti and Antonio Luque
2.2.6 Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells
Alberto Salleo, Yi Cui, and Peter Peumans
2.2.7 Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells
H.-S. Philip Wong, Peter Peumans, Mark Brongersma, and Yoshi Nishi
2.2.8 Plasmonic Photovoltaics
Mark Brongersma, Albert Polman, and Harry Atwater
2.2.9 Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane Supported Assemblies That Use Sunlight to Split Water
Nate Lewis, Harry Gray, and Harry Atwater
2.3 Renewable Energy - Biomass
2.3.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy - Biomass
2.3.2 Assembly of a Lignin Modification Toolbox
Clint Chapple and Alan Friedman
2.3.3 Novel Mutants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via Re-Mutagenesis
Claire Halpin and Gordon Simpson
2.3.4 Efficient Biomass Conversion: Delineating the Best Lignin Monomer Substitutes
John Ralph, Xuejun Pan, and Sara Patterson
2.3.5 Towards New Degradable Lignin Types
Wout Boerjan
2.3.6 Biomass Energy: The Climate-Protective Domain
Christopher Field, Rosamond Lee Naylor, and Gregory Asner
2.4 CO₂ Capture & Separation
2.4.1 Introduction to CO₂ Capture and Separation
2.4.2 Advanced CO₂/H₂ Separation and Storage Nano-Porous Materials Incorporating Active Functional Agents
Yuichi Fujioka, Shingo Kazama, and Katsunori Yogo
2.5 CO₂ Storage
2.5.1 Introduction to CO₂ Storage
2.5.2 Residual Trapping of Carbon Dioxide
Sally Benson
2.5.3 Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China
Dongsxiao Zhang, Qingdong Cai, Bin Gong, Yi Zheng, Yilian Li, Yanxin Wang, and Jianmei Cheng
2.5.4 Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO2 Injection to Geophysical Parameters
Gary Mavko
2.6 Advanced Combustion
2.6.1 Introduction to Advanced Combustion
2.6.2 Combustion Testing and Analysis of an Extreme-States Approach to Low-Irreversibility Engines
Christopher Edwards
2.7 Advanced Coal
2.7.1 Introduction to Advanced Coal
2.7.2 Coal Energy Conversion with Aquifer-Based Carbon Sequestration: An Approach to Electric Power Generation with Zero Matter Release to the Atmosphere
Reginald Mitchell
2.8 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.8.1 Introduction to Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.8.2 The Electron Economy: Oxidation Catalysis for Energy Management
Robert Waymouth, Christopher Chidsey, and Daniel Stack
2.8.3 Developing Solid-State Electrocatalysts Based on Design Principles From Nature: The Oxidation of Water and the Reduction of CO₂ to Fuels
Thomas Jaramillo
2.9 Advanced Transportation
2.9.1 Introduction to Advanced Transportation
2.9.2 Advanced Li-ion Batteries based on the use of renewable ORGanic electrodes (ALIBORG)
Jean-Marie Tarascon
2.9.3 A Quantum Leap Forward for Li-Ion Battery Cathodes
Josh Thomas
3. Scoping Research Activities
3.1 Introduction to Scoping Research Activities
3.2 Carbon-ion Conducting Thin Film Membranes for Efficient CO₂ Separation
Friedrich Prinz and Turgut Gur
3.3 Next Generation High-Efficiency Low-cost Thin Film Photovoltaics
Bruce Clemens and Alberto Salleo
4. Research Activities - Final Reports
4.1 Introduction to Final Reports
4.2 Renewable Energy-Solar
4.2.1 Molecular Solar Cells
Peter Peumans
4.3 Renewable Energy - Biomass
4.3.1 Microbial Synthesis of Biodiesel
Chaitan Khosla
4.4 CO₂ Storage
4.4.1 Geologic Storage of CO₂
Jerry Harris, Anthony Kovscek, Franklin Orr and Mark Zoback
4.5 Advanced Combustion
4.5.1 Development of Low-Energy-Loss, High-Efficiency Chemical Engines
Christopher Edwards
4.6 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
4.6.1 Metal Oxide Nanotubes and Photo-Excitation Effects: New Approaches for Low Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells to Enable Low GWG-Emission Transportation
Paul McIntyre and Shriram Ramanathan
4.6.2 Nanoscale Architectural Engineering for High-Performance Solid oxide Fuel Cells
Sosina Haile and David Goodwin
4.7 Advanced Transportation
4.7.1 Nanowire Lithium-Ion Batteries as Electrochemical Energy Storage for Electric Vehicles
Yi Cui and Fritz Prinz
5. Scoping Research Activities
5.1 Development of an Immobilized Enzyme System for Lignocellulosic Biomass Saccharification
Richard Zare
5.0 Introduction to Scoping Research - Completed
5.2 Efficient Cell-Free Hydrogen Production from Glucose
James Swartz
5.3 Geological Sequestration of CO₂: An Exploratory Study of the Mechanisms and Kinetics of CO₂ Reaction with Mg-Silicates
Gordon Brown, Dennis K. Bird, Kate Maher, and Wendy Mao
5.4 High Voltage Alloys for Lithium Battery Cathodes
Robert Huggins
5.5 Nanostructured MoS₂ and WS₂ for the Solar Production of Hydrogen
Thomas Jaramillo
5.6 Spectroscopic Characterization of Multi-Exciton Generation Efficiency in Nano-Structured Materials
Kelly Gaffney, Yi Cui, and Mike McGehee
5.7 Multijunction Nanowire Solar Cells for Inexpensive and Highly Efficient Photoelectricity: Enabling Methods
Paul McIntyre
5.8 Fundamental Studies of Plasma Air Separation
Mark Cappelli
5.9 High Capacity Molecular Hydrogen Storage in Novel Crystalline Solids
Wendy Mao, Peter Cummings, Maaike Kroon, and Cor Peters