Projects

Below find a list of our current Mines/NREL Nexus projects and investigators.

• Protonic Ceramic Membrane Reactors for CO2 Reduction to Fuels.
  PI: Ryan O’Hayre; Sponsor: NREL
• Oxide Electronic Devices for Extreme Operating Environments.
  PI: Vladan Stevanovic; Sponsor: NREL
• AI Institute: Fusing Science and Data for Autonomous Chemical Design and Manufacturing.
  PI: Vladan Stevanovic; Sponsor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Epitaxial growth of III-V solar cells on silicon substrates.
  PI: Jeramy Zimmerman; Sponsor: NREL
• Durable Fuel Cell MEA through Immobilization of Catalyst Particle and Membrane Chemical Stabilizer.
  PI: Andrew Herring; Sponsor: General Motors Corporation
• Water and Nutrient Recycling: A Decision Tool and Synergistic Innovative Technology.
  PI: Andrew Herring; Sponsor: NSF
• Investigations of Anion Exchange Polymer Interfacial Interactions.
  PI: Andrew Herring; Sponsor: ARO
• INFEWS/T3: Critical Nutrient Recovery and Reuse: N & P Recycling from Wastewaters as Struvite Fertilizer.
  PI: Andrew Herring; Sponsor: NSF
• Characterization in Support of Anion Exchange Membrane Development.
  PI: Andrew Herring; Sponsor: NREL
• Production of Pipeline Grade Renewable Natural Gas and Value-Added Chemicals from Forest Biomass Residues.
  PI: Carolyn Koh; Sponsor: West Biofuels
• Diffusion of guests, dopants, and impurity atoms through open cage allotropes of Si and related structures.
  PI: Carolyn Koh; Sponsor: NSF
• Quantum Computing for Clean Energy Systems.
  PI: Eliot Kapit; Sponsor: NREL
• Thin III-V Solar Cells.
  PI: Eric Toberer; Sponsor: NREL
• Nanomanufacturing of Nanophononic Devices: Ultra-High ZT Thermoelectrics for Efficient Conversion of Waste Heat.
  PI: Eric Toberer; Sponsor: CU Boulder
• High temperature, high throughput thermoelectric material discovery.
  PI: Eric Toberer; Sponsor: DOE
• Ground- and Excited-state Charge Transfer at Interfaces Between Perovskite-based Semiconductors and Other Low-Dimensional Semiconductors.
  PI: Jeramy Zimmerman; Sponsor: NREL
• Expitaxial Growth of III-V Solar Cells on Silicon Substrates.
  PI: Jeramy Zimmerman; Sponsor: NREL
• Cost effective iii-v/si integration enabled by thin-film vapor-liquid-solid growth.
  PI: Jeramy Zimmerman; Sponsor: NREL
• Atom probe tomography of commercially relevant OLED structures.
  PI: Jeramy Zimmerman; Sponsor: UDC, Inc.
• Understanding and Controlling Aggregation Processes in Organic Light Emitting Diode Materials.
  PI: Jeramy Zimmerman; Sponsor: DOE
• Magnetoresistance Effects in Correlated Triplet Pair Systems.
  PI: Meenakshi Singh; Sponsor: NREL
• Thermoelectric Effects in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrids.
  PI: Meenakshi Singh; Sponsor: NSF
• Removal of Non-Hydrocarbon Natural Gas Impurities over Gas Hydrate Membranes.
  PI: Moises Carreon; Sponsor: NSF
• Accelerated Discovery of Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen Production Materials via High-Throughput Computational and Experimental Methods.
  PI: Ryan O’Hayre; Sponsor: DOE
• 7.2 Electrochemistry: Triple Conducting Oxides for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage.
  PI: Ryan O’Hayre; Sponsor: ARO
• Metal oxide catalysis for coupling biomass-derived ketones to fuel precursors.
  PI: Ryan Richards; Sponsor: NREL
• Investigating precision control of local chemical and physical manipulation of 2D material properties.
  PI: Ryan Richards; Sponsor: NREL
• Calculations of wide band gap semiconductors.
  PI: Vladan Stevanovic; Sponsor: NREL
• Computational Screening for New p-type Contacts for CdTe.
  PI: Vladan Stevanovic; Sponsor: NREL
• SusChEM: Air-stable, High-lifetime Bismuth Compounds as Solar Absorbers with Perovskite-like Band Structures.
  PI: Vladan Stevanovic; Sponsor: NREL
• High temperature, high throughput thermoelectric material discovery.
  PI: Eric Toberer; Sponsor: DOE
• Understanding the Mechanism of Light and Elevated Temperature Induced Degradation of p-type Silicon Solar Cells.
  PI: Sumit Agarwal; Sponsor: DOE
• End-to-end Optimization for Battery Materials and Molecules by Combining Graph Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning.
  PI: Prashun Gorai; Prime Sponsor: DOE, Sponsor: NREL
• Removal of Non-Hydrocarbon Natural Gas impurities over Gas Hydrate Membranes.
  PI: Moises Carreon; Sponsor: NSF