| Name |
Director |
Lead Institution |
Location |
Objectives |
| Center for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production | Devens Gust | Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | Production of hydrogen or other fuels from sunlight |
| Rational Design of Innovative Catalytic Technologies for Biomass Derivative Utilization | Dionisios Vlachos | University of Delaware | Newark, DE | Catalysis of converting biomass into chemicals and fuels |
| Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center | Michael Wasielewski | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | Conversion of sunlight into electricity and fuels |
| Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels | Maureen McCann | Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | Conversion of biomass to energy, fuels, or chemicals |
| Computational Catalysis and Atomic-Level Synthesis of Materials: Building Effective Catalysts from First Principles | James Spivey | Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | Computational tools to model catalytic reactions |
| Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics | Thomas Meyer | University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, NC | Fuel generation using molecular catalysts in nanoscale architectures |
| Nanostructured Interfaces for Energy Generation, Conversion, and Storage | Hector Abruna | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | Electrodes in fuels cells, batteries, photovoltaics, and catalysts |
| Center for Electrocatalysis, Transport Phenomena, and Materials for Innovative Energy Storage | Grigorii Soloveichik | General Electric Global Research | Niskayuna, NY | Energy storage by combing properties of a fuel cell and flow battery |
| Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization | Brent Gunnoe | University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | Catalysis of conversion of hydrocarbon gases into liquid fuels |