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1. Introduction
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1. Introduction
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2. Research Activities -- Progress Reports
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2.1 Hydrogen Production, Distribution and Use
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2.1.1 Introduction
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2.1.2 Efficient, Highly Productive Hydrogen Production from Glucose
James Swartz
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2.2 Renewable Energy-Solar
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2.2.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Solar
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2.2.2 Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells
Zhenan Bao, Michael Toney, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik
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2.2.3 Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)
Michael McGehee and Alan Sellinger
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2.2.4 Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell
Zhenan Bao
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2.2.5 Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion
Jennifer Dionne and Alberto Salleo
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2.2.6 Toward High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Combining Multi-Junctions and Nano-Scale Light Management
James Harris, Shanhui Fan, Yi Cui, and Mark Brongersma
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2.3 Renewable Energy-Biomass
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2.3.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Biomass
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2.3.3 Novel Plants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via Re-Mutagenesis
Claire Halpin and Gordon Simpson
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2.3.4 Synthesis of Biofuels on Bioelectrodes
Alfred Spormann
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2.3.5 Capturing Electrical Current via Mechanisms Used for Interspecies Electron Transfer to Produce Methane
Alfred Spormann and Bruce Logan
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2.4 CO2 Capture & Separation
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2.4.1 Introduction to CO2 Capture and Separation
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2.4.2 Biomimetic Sorbents for Selective CO2 Capture
Jennifer Wilcox
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2.4.3 Mew Materials and Process development for Energy-Efficient Carbon Capture in the Presence of Water Vapor
Randall Snurr, Joseph Hupp, Omar Farha and Fengqi You
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2.4.4 Chemically-Complexing Ionic Liquids for Pre-Combustion CO2 Capture
Joan Brennecke, Brandon Ashfeld, Edward Maginn, William Schneider and Mark Stadtherr
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2.4.5 Carbon Capture Systems Analysis: Comparing Exergy Efficiency and Cost of Electricity of Existing and Future Technology Options
Chris F. Edwards and Adam R. Brandt
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2.4.6 Systems Analysis of Advanced Power Plant Carbon Capture Technologies
Edward S. Rubin and John Kitchin
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2.5 CO2 Storage
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2.5.1 Introduction to CO2 Storage
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2.5.2 Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO2 Injection to Geophysical Parameters
Gary Mavko, Rolf Arvidson, Andreas Luttge
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2.5.3 Reactivity of CO2 In the Subsurface
Katharine Maher, Dennis Bird and Gordon Brown
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2.5.4 Multiphase Flow and Monitoring of CO2 in the Subsurface
Sally Benson
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2.6 Advanced Combustion
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2.6.1 Introduction to Advanced Combustion
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2.6.2 The Sootless Diesel: Use of In-Plume Fuel Transformation to Enable High-Load, High-Efficiency, Clean Combustion
Christopher Edwards
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2.7 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
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2.7.1 Introduction to Advanced Materials and Catalysts
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2.7.2 Using First-principles Simulations to Discover Materials with Ultra-low Work Functions for Energy Conversion Applications
Roger Howe, Jens Norskov and Piero Pianetta
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2.7.3 Schottky Tunnel Contacts for Efficient Coupling of Photovoltaics and Catalysts
Paul McIntyre and Christopher Chidsey
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2.7.4 Reductive Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation with Carbon Dioxide: Immobilized Dinuclear Copper Complexes as Discrete Electrocatalysts for the Formation of Oxalic Acid
T. Daniel P. Stack and Christopher Chidsey
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2.7.5 Electrohydrogenation: Enabling Science for Renewable Fuels
Robert Waymouth and Christopher Chidsey
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2.8 Advanced Electric Infrastructure
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2.8.1 Introduction to Electric Infrastructure
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2.8.2 Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration
Kevin Tomsovic, Thomas Overbye, Peter Sauer, George Gross, Philip Krein, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Hanoch Lev-Ari, Ali Abur, Joe Chow, Jian Sun, and Daniel Shawhan
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2.9 Advanced Coal
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2.9.1 Introduction to Advanced Coal
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2.9.2 Co-generation of Carbon-Free Hydrogen and Electricity from Coal in a Steam-Carbon Fuel Cell with Carbon Capture
Reginald Mitchell and Turgut Gur
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2.10 Grid Storage
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2.10.1 Introduction to Grid Storage
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2.10.2 A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilizing H-C-O Chemistry (CSM)
Scott Barnett, Robert Braun and Robert Kee
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2.10.3 Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems (U Tex. Austin)
Allen Bard, Thomas Zawodzinski and Alex Papandrew
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2.10.4 Low-Cost Flywheel Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Power Generation (U Tex. Austin)
Robert Hebner, Michael Lewis, Siddharth Pratap, Ray Baughman and Shaoli Fang
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2.10.5 Safe, Inexpensive, and Very High Power Batteries for Use to Reduce Short Term Transients on the Electric Grid
Robert Huggins and Yi Cui
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3. Scoping Research Activities -- Progress Reports
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3.1 Introduction to Ongoing Scoping Research Activities
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3.2 Ultra-Fast Rechargeable Nickel/Zinc Batteries
Hongjie Dai
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3.3 Exploring How Combined Restrained and Unrestrained Reactions Can be Used to Realize High-Efficiency (>70%) Engines
Christopher F. Edwards
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3.4 Atomically Engineering Oxide Heterostructures for Solar Water Splitting Catalysis
Harold Hwang
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4. Research Activities -- Final Reports
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4.1 Introduction to Final Reports
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4.2 Renewable Energy-Solar
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4.2.1 Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate PV Converter
Jean-Francois Guillemoles
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4.2.2 Ultra-High Efficiency Thermo-Photovoltaic Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter s
Shanhui Fan and Paul Braun
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4.2.3 Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells
Alberto Salleo and Yi Cui
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4.2.4 Photo-electric Enhancement of Thermionic Emission
Nick Melosh and Zhi-Xun Shen
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4.3 Renewable Energy-Biomass
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4.3.1 Biomass Energy: The Climate-Protective Domain
Christopher Field, Rosamond Lee Naylor, David Lobell, and Gregory Asner
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4.3.2 Efficient Biomass Conversion: Delineating the Best Lignin Monomer-Substitutes
John Ralph, Xuejun Pan, and Sara Patterson
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4.4 CO2 Capture & Separation
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4.4.1 Advanced CO2/H2 Separation and Storage Nano-Porous Materials Incorporating Active Functional Agents
Yuichi Fujioka, Shingo Kazama, and Katsunori Yogo
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4.5 CO2 Storage
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4.5.1 Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China
Dongsxiao Zhang, Kristian Jessen, Qingdong Cai, Bin Gong, Yi Zheng, Yilian Li, Yanxin Wang, and Jianmei Cheng
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4.6 Advanced Combustion
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4.6.1 Combustion Testing and Analysis of an Extreme-States Approach to Low-Irreversibility Engines
Christopher Edwards
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4.7 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
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4.7.1 Developing Solid-State Electrocatalysts Based on Design Principles From Nature: The Oxidation of Water and the Reduction of CO2 to Fuels
Thomas Jaramillo and Jens Norskov
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5. Scoping Research Activities - Final Reports
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5.1 Introduction to Completed Scoping Research Activities
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5.2 Continuous Passive-Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Geologic Sequestration Projects
Biondo Biondi
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5.3 Electrochemical Dinitrogen Fixation
Matthew Kanan
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5.4 Real-Time Monitoring at CO2 Sequestration Sites: Fast Data Assimilation and Risk Evaluation
Peter Kitanidis and Eric Darve
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5.5 Safe Wireless Power Transfer to Moving Vehicles: Design of Radiationless Electromagnetic Antenna
Shanhui Fan
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5.6 Solid-state Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission for Solar Energy Conversion
Nick Melosh
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5.7 CO2 Capture Using Carbon-based Sorbents
Jennifer Wilcox and Zhenan Bao
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