GCEP Technical Report 2016

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2016 Technical Report

1. Introduction
1. Introduction

2. Full-Scale Research Activities -- Progress Reports
2.1 Renewable Energy-Solar
2.1.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Solar
2.1.2 Dielectric Metasurfaces for Light Trapping in High‐efficiency Low‐cost Silicon Solar Cells
Mark Brongersma, Harry Atwater, Caltech, Albert Polman, FOM in The Netherlands
2.1.3 Maximizing Solar-to-Fuel Conversion Efficiency in Oxide Photo-electrochemical Cells Using Heat and Concentrated Sunlight
William Chueh and Nicholas Melosh
2.1.4 Novel Inorganic-organic Perovskites for Solution Processable Photovoltaics
Michael D. McGehee and Hemamala I. Karunadasa
2.1.5 Solar Thermophotovoltaics: Improving the Efficiencies of Emitters and Narrow Band Gap Photovoltaic Cells
Shanhui Fan, Mark Brongersma, James Harris
2.2 Renewable Energy-Biomass
2.2.1 Introduction to Renewable Energy-Biomass
2.2.2 Lignin Management: Optimizing Yield in Lignin‐Modified Plant
Clint Chapple, Purdue; Wout Boerjan, VIB in Belgium; Claire Halpin, U Dundee in UK; John Ralph, U Wisconsin-Madison; Xu “Sirius” Li, North Carolina State U
2.2.3 Integrated Electrochemical-biological Systems for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals from CO2
Alfred Spormann, Thomas Jaramillo
2.3 CO₂ Storage
2.3.1 Introduction to CO₂ Storage
2.3.2 Multiphase Flow and Monitoring of CO₂ in the Subsurface
Sally Benson
2.4 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.4.1 Introduction to Advanced Materials and Catalysts
2.4.2 Immobilization of Discrete Electrocatalysts on Carbon Surfaces
T. Daniel P. Stack and Christopher Chidsey
2.4.3 Electrohydrogenation: Enabling Science for Renewable Fuels
Robert Waymouth and Christopher Chidsey
2.4.4 Combining Theory and Experiment to Design and Develop Active, Selective Metal Alloy Catalysts for the Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 and CO to Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals
Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov, and Anders Nilsson
2.4.5 Electrochemical Tuning of Electronic Structures for Highly Active Electrocatalysts
Yi Cui, Harold Hwang
2.4.6 Sustainable Fuel Production from CO2 and CO: Higher Alcohol Synthesis on Transition Metal Catalysts
Jens Norskov, Thomas Jaramillo, Stacey Bent and Anders Nilsson
2.4.7 Carbonate-catalyzed CO2 Hydrogenation to Multi-carbon Products
Matt Kanan and Todd Martinez
2.5 Advanced Transportation Systems
2.5.1 Introduction to Advanced Transporation Systems
2.5.2 High-Energy-Density Lithium Ion Battery using Self-Healing Polymers
Zhenan Bao and Yi Cui
2.5.3 Transportation Vehicle Light-Weighting with Polymeric Glazing and Mouldings
Reinhold Dauskardt
2.6 Advanced Combustion
2.6.1 Introduction to Advanced Combustion
2.6.2 Use of Mixed Combustion/Electrochemical Energy Conversion to Achieve Efficiencies in Excess of 70% for Transportation-scale Engines
Christopher Edwards
2.7 Carbon Negative Energy
2.7.1 Introduction to Carbon Negative Energy
2.7.2 The Pyrolysis-Bioenergy-Biochar Pathway to Carbon-Negative Energy
David Laird, Fernando Miguez, Bruce Babcock, Robert Brown, Dermot Hayes and Sotirios Archontoulis, Iowa State University; David Zilberman, University of California at Berkeley
2.7.3 Sustainable Transportation Energy with Net Negative Carbon Emissions: An Integrated Ecological and Engineering Systems Analysis
Eric Larson, Robert Williams, Princeton University; Clarence Lehman and David Tilman, University of Minnesota
2.8 Energy for the Developing World
2.8.1 Introduction to Energy for the Developing World
2.8.2 Nighttime Radiative Cooling: Harvesting the Darkness of the Universe
Shanhui Fan
2.8.3 Low-cost Photovoltaics by Electrodeposition of Silicon PN Junctions
Allen Bard and Edward Yu, University of Texas, Austin; Donald Sadoway, MIT
2.8.4 Robust Microalgal Production Strains for High Yield Growth on Fossil Fuel Gas: Toward Cost Effective Biofuels and CO2 Mitigation
Charles Dismukes, Rutgers University
2.9 Energy Systems Analysis
2.9.1 Introduction to Energy Systems Analysis
2.9.2 Energy Systems Analysis
Sally Benson

3. Scoping Research Activities -- Progress Reports
3.1 Introduction to Ongoing Scoping Research Activities
3.2 A Microbial Platform for Conversion of Methane and Syngas to Biofuels and Industrial Chemicals
Alfred M. Spormann

4. Cost-shared Research - Progress Reports
4.1 Introduction to Cost-shared Research
4.1.1 GCEP Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium (BAPVC)
Yi Cui (Lead PI)
4.1.2 GCEP Stanford Center forCarbon Storage
Anthony R. Kovscek (Lead PI)

5. Full-Scale Research Activities - Final Reports
5.1 Introduction to Completed Full-Scale Research Activities
5.2 Renewable Energy - Solar
5.2.1 Toward High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Combining Multi-Junctions and Nano-Scale Light Management
James Harris, Shanhui Fan, Yi Cui, and Mark Brongersma
5.3 Renewable Energy-Biomass
5.3.1 Capturing Electrical Current via Mechanisms Used for Interspecies Electron Transfer to Produce Methane
Alfred Spormann; Bruce Logan, Penn State Univ
5.4 CO2 Capture & Separation
5.4.1 Biomimetic Sorbents for Selective CO2 Capture
Jennifer Wilcox, Zhenan Bao and Daniel Stack
5.4.2 New Materials and Process development for Energy-Efficient Carbon Capture in the Presence of Water Vapor
Randall Snurr, Joseph Hupp, Omar Farha and Fengqi You
5.4.3 Chemically-Complexing Ionic Liquids for Pre-Combustion CO2 Capture
Joan Brennecke, Brandon Ashfeld, Edward Maginn, William Schneider, and Mark Stadtherr
5.4.4 Carbon Capture Systems Analysis: Comparing Exergy Efficiency and Cost of Electricity of Existing and Future Technology Options
Chris F. Edwards and Adam R. Brandt
5.4.5 Systems Analysis of Advanced Power Plant Carbon Capture Technologies
Edward S. Rubin, Carnegie Mellon U
5.5 Advanced Materials and Catalysts
5.5.1 Nanostructured Cu Electrodes for Energy-Efficient Conversion of CO2 to Fuel
Matthew Kanan
5.5.2 Schottky Tunnel Contacts for Efficient Coupling of Photovoltaics and Catalysts
Paul McIntyre and Christopher Chidsey
5.6 Advanced Coal
5.6.1 Co-generation of Carbon-Free Hydrogen and Electricity from Coal in a Steam-Carbon Fuel Cell with Carbon Capture
Reginald Mitchell and Turgut Gur
5.7 Grid Storage
5.7.1 Photoelectrochemically Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries
Hongjie Dai

6. Scoping Research Activities - Final Reports
6.1 Introduction to Completed Scoping Research Activities
6.2 Enhancing Hydride Thermodynamics Through Nanostructuring
Jennifer Wilcox
6.3 New Pathways Towards High Performance Transparent Conductive Oxides
Xiaolin Zheng
6.4 Enabling Methods and Materials for Stackable Tandem Solar Cells with Polymer Electrolyte Interconnect
Paul McIntyre and Alberto Salleo
6.5 Optimization of Carrier Transport Processes and Figure of Merit for an Internediate Band Solar Cell
Aaron Lindenberg and Jacob Krich