The University of Minnesota is now home to two new centers that could potentially reduce carbon emissions and make solar energy more efficient. <\/p>\n
The Department of Chemistry received $13.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund the centers, which officially began research Saturday. <\/p>\n
Its kind of a tribute to the science [here] that for both centers they chose Minnesota, said Christopher Cramer, director of the new Center for the Study of Charge Transfer and Charge Transport in Photoactivated Systems. <\/p>\n
Both centers focus on theoretical chemistry and will use the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute to test models and programs. <\/p>\n
Because the University already has this hardware, most of the grant money for both centers will be used to hire more researchers. <\/p>\n
The Nanoporous Materials Genome Center will receive $8.1 million and partner with six other institutions. <\/p>\n
Laura Gagliardi, director of the center, said the goal will be to create a database, or genome, of nanoporous materials in order to have a standard way of reporting the properties of these materials. This will allow researchers to make faster advances in the field because theyll have a reference guide, she said. <\/p>\n
Nanoporous materials can be used in carbon capture, for example, to sequester carbon dioxide and reduce pollution. Gagliardi said they will evaluate which materials could be best suited for this. <\/p>\n
This center will also house experiments to develop and test nanoporous materials to confirm theorists predictions. <\/p>\n
Its really about the interplay between modeling and experiment that we hope the most exciting results will arise, Gagliardi said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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