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2013 Technical Report

1. Introduction
1. Introduction

2. Research Activities -- Progress Reports
2.1 Hydrogen Production, Distribution and Use
2.1.1 Introduction
2.1.2 Efficient, Highly Productive Hydrogen Production from Glucose
James Swartz
2.2 Renewable Energy-Solar
2.2.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Solar
2.2.2 Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells
Zhenan Bao, Michael Toney, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik
2.2.3 Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)
Michael McGehee and Alan Sellinger
2.2.4 Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell
Zhenan Bao
2.2.5 Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion
Jennifer Dionne and Alberto Salleo
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
2.3 Renewable Energy-Biomass
2.3.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Biomass
2.3.3 Novel Plants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via Re-Mutagenesis
Claire Halpin and Gordon Simpson
2.3.4 Synthesis of Biofuels on Bioelectrodes
Alfred Spormann
2.3.5 Capturing Electrical Current via Mechanisms Used for Interspecies Electron Transfer to Produce Methane
Alfred Spormann and Bruce Logan
2.4 CO₂ Capture & Separation
2.4.1 Introduction to CO₂ Capture and Separation
2.4.2 Biomimetic Sorbents for Selective CO₂ Capture
Jennifer Wilcox
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
2.4.4 Chemically-Complexing Ionic Liquids for Pre-Combustion CO₂ Capture
Joan Brennecke, Brandon Ashfeld, Edward Maginn, William Schneider and Mark Stadtherr
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
2.4.6 Systems Analysis of Advanced Power Plant Carbon Capture Technologies
Edward S. Rubin and John Kitchin
2.5 CO₂ Storage
2.5.1 Introduction to CO₂ Storage
2.5.2 Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO₂ Injection to Geophysical Parameters
Gary Mavko, Rolf Arvidson, Andreas Luttge
2.5.3 Reactivity of CO₂ In the Subsurface
Katharine Maher, Dennis Bird and Gordon Brown
2.5.4 Multiphase Flow and Monitoring of CO₂ in the Subsurface
Sally Benson
2.6 Advanced Combustion
2.6.1 Introduction to Advanced Combustion
2.6.2 The Sootless Diesel: Use of In-Plume Fuel Transformation to Enable High-Load, High-Efficiency, Clean Combustion
Christopher Edwards
2.7 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.7.1 Introduction to Advanced Materials and Catalysts
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
2.7.3 Schottky Tunnel Contacts for Efficient Coupling of Photovoltaics and Catalysts
Paul McIntyre and Christopher Chidsey
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
2.7.5 Electrohydrogenation: Enabling Science for Renewable Fuels
Robert Waymouth and Christopher Chidsey
2.8 Advanced Electric Infrastructure
2.8.1 Introduction to Electric Infrastructure
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
2.9 Advanced Coal
2.9.1 Introduction to Advanced Coal
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
2.10 Grid Storage
2.10.1 Introduction to Grid Storage
2.10.2 A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilizing H-C-O Chemistry (CSM)
Scott Barnett, Robert Braun and Robert Kee
2.10.3 Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems (U Tex. Austin)
Allen Bard, Thomas Zawodzinski and Alex Papandrew
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
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

3. Scoping Research Activities -- Progress Reports
3.1 Introduction to Ongoing Scoping Research Activities
3.2 Ultra-Fast Rechargeable Nickel/Zinc Batteries
Hongjie Dai
3.3 Exploring How Combined Restrained and Unrestrained Reactions Can be Used to Realize High-Efficiency (>70%) Engines
Christopher F. Edwards
3.4 Atomically Engineering Oxide Heterostructures for Solar Water Splitting Catalysis
Harold Hwang

4. Research Activities -- Final Reports
4.1 Introduction to Final Reports
4.2 Renewable Energy-Solar
4.2.1 Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate PV Converter
Jean-Francois Guillemoles
4.2.2 Ultra-High Efficiency Thermo-Photovoltaic Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter s
Shanhui Fan and Paul Braun
4.2.3 Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells
Alberto Salleo and Yi Cui
4.2.4 Photo-electric Enhancement of Thermionic Emission
Nick Melosh and Zhi-Xun Shen
4.3 Renewable Energy-Biomass
4.3.1 Biomass Energy: The Climate-Protective Domain
Christopher Field, Rosamond Lee Naylor, David Lobell, and Gregory Asner
4.3.2 Efficient Biomass Conversion: Delineating the Best Lignin Monomer-Substitutes
John Ralph, Xuejun Pan, and Sara Patterson
4.4 CO₂ Capture & Separation
4.4.1 Advanced CO₂/H₂ Separation and Storage Nano-Porous Materials Incorporating Active Functional Agents
Yuichi Fujioka, Shingo Kazama, and Katsunori Yogo
4.5 CO₂ Storage
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
4.6 Advanced Combustion
4.6.1 Combustion Testing and Analysis of an Extreme-States Approach to Low-Irreversibility Engines
Christopher Edwards
4.7 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
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

5. Scoping Research Activities - Final Reports
5.1 Introduction to Completed Scoping Research Activities
5.2 Continuous Passive-Seismic Monitoring of CO₂ Geologic Sequestration Projects
Biondo Biondi
5.3 Electrochemical Dinitrogen Fixation
Matthew Kanan
5.4 Real-Time Monitoring at CO₂ Sequestration Sites: Fast Data Assimilation and Risk Evaluation
Peter Kitanidis and Eric Darve
5.5 Safe Wireless Power Transfer to Moving Vehicles: Design of Radiationless Electromagnetic Antenna
Shanhui Fan
5.6 Solid-state Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission for Solar Energy Conversion
Nick Melosh
5.7 CO₂ Capture Using Carbon-based Sorbents
Jennifer Wilcox and Zhenan Bao

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