Appendix B Current Research Projects

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Appendix B – Current Research Projects

The projects listed in this section are ones that are currently active.

Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) Seed Funding

 Potentially Low Cost Technology for Crystalline III-V Thin Film High Efficiency Solar Cells, Jim Plummer (Electrical Engineering)

 Development of a New High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane for Fuel Cells, Michael Toney (SLAC) and Curt Frank (Chemical Engineering)

 Turning Papers into Supercapacitors for Grid Scale Energy Storage, Yi Cui (Materials Science) and Zhenan Bao (Chemical Engineering)

 Nanocomposite Metal/Oxide/Semiconductor Anodes for Oxidation of Water: Solar Fuels, Paul McIntyre (Materials Science and Eng.) and Chris Chidsey (Chemistry)

 Stimulation Prediction Models in Enhanced Geothermal Systems, Roland Horne (Energy Resources Eng.), Dave Pollard (Geological and Environmental Sciences)

 Surface-Modified Conductive Metal Oxides for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Catalysis, Matthew Kanan (Chemistry)

 Novel Hybrid Materials of Carbon for Li-Air Batteries, Hongjie Dai (Chemistry)

 Micro-Combined Cooling, Heating and Power (m-CCHP) Systems based on Mass-Produced Solid State Stirling Engines, Lambertus Hesselink (Electrical Engineering), Sanjiva Lele, (Mechanical Engineering/Aeronautics and Astronautics), James Gibbons (Electrical Engineering)

 Semiconductor Interface Control in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell through “Click” Chemistry, Daniel Stack (Chemistry), Michael McGehee (Materials Science and Engineering)

TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy (TomKat) Seed Funding

 Analysis and Control of Smart Electrical Distribution Systems, Sanjay Lall (Aero/Astro and EE) and Dimitry Gorinevsky (EE)

 Catching Wind by the Tail: Improving Intermittent Power Operations with Sensing, Statistics and Control, PI: Ram Rajagopal (Civil & Environmental Engineering)

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 Reducing the Regulatory Barriers to a Transmission Network that Facilitates Renewable Energy Deployment in a Wholesale Market Regime, Frank Wolak (Econ), Stephen Boyd (EE) and Mark Thurber (PESD)

 GridSpice: A Virtual Platform for Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of the Smart Grid, Abbas El Gamal (EE), Stephen Boyd (EE), Benjamin Van Roy (EE and Management Science & Engineering), Amit Narayan (EE) and Dan O'Neill (EE)

 Upconverter-enhanced Molecular Photovoltaic: Towards Cost-effective, Broadband Solar Energy Conversion, Jennifer Dionne (Materials Science and Engineering), Michael McGehee (Materials Science and Engineering)

 Develop a Unique Energy Storage Device, Thomas Jaramillo (Chemical Engineering), Curtis Frank (Chemical Engineering)

 Consuming Renewable Power, Ram Rajagopal (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) and TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy (TomKat) Seed Funding

 Large-scale Solar Energy Conversion: Land and Water Impacts, Chris Field (Biology and Environmental Earth System Science), Noah Diffenbaugh (Environmental Earth Systems Science, Woods Institute for the Environment), David Lobell (Environmental Earth Systems Science)

 Market-based Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Competitive Large-Scale Solar Power Generation, Michael Lepech (Civil and Environmental Engineering), David Freyberg (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Stefan Reichelstein (Graduate School of Business), John Weyant (Management Science and Engineering)

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 Measuring Travel/Driving Behavior Modification through Realtime Fuel Consumption Information and Incentive/Disincentive Transportation Programs, Sam Chiu (Management Science Engineering)

 Improving Energy Efficiency of High-Rises through Requirements Driven Parametric Modeling, Martin Fischer (Civil & Environmental Engineering)

 Reference-Based Optimization Method: Enabling Flexible BIM-Based Passive Thermal MDO in AEC, Martin Fischer (Civil & Environmental Engineering)

 Paying for Good Deeds: Using Financial Incentives to Achieve Energy Efficiency, Matthew Harding (Economics)

 Towards Improved Energy Simulation Tools for Buildings - Improving airflow parameterizations within energy simulation using CFD and building

measurements, Gianluca Iaccarino (Mechanical Engineering)

 Identifying and Mitigating Structural Barriers to Diffusion of Energy-Saving Technologies in the Building Industry, Raymond Levitt (Civil & Environmental Engineering)

 Serious Games and Energy Use Behavior, Byron Reeves (Communication)

 A Randomized Intervention Field Experiment to Reduce Home Energy Use, Greg Walton (Psychology)

 Santa Clara County Jail Energy Efficiency, departmental research, Martin Fischer (Civil & Environmental Engineering)

 Goulder Energy Efficiency, departmental research, Lawrence Goulder (Economics)

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Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) Scoping Studies

 Wireless Power Transfer to Moving Vehicles, Shanhui Fan (Electrical Engineering)

 Continuous Passive-Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Geologic Sequestration Projects, Biondo Biondi (Geophysics)

 Electrochemical Dinitrogen Fixation, Matthew Kanan (Chemistry)

 Real-Time Monitoring at CO2 Sequestration Sites: Fast Data Assimilation and Risk Evaluation, Peter Kitanidis (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Eric Darve (Mechanical Engineering)

 Solid-state Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission for Solar Energy Conversion, Nicholas Melosh (Chemistry)

 CO2 Capture using Carbon-based Sorbents, Jennifer Wilcox (Energy Resources Engineering) and Zhenan Bao (Chemical Engineering)

Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) Full-Scale Research Programs

 Plasmonic Photovoltaics, Albert Polman, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

 Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate PV Converter, Jean-François Guillemoles, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

 Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate PV Converter, Tim Schmidt, University of Sydney, Australia

 C-H Bonds in Carbon nanotubes as an Energy Carrier, Anders Nilsson (SLAC National Laboratory), Bruce Clemens (Materials Science and Engineering) and Hongjie Dai (Chemistry)

 Biomass Energy: The Climate-Protective Domain, Christopher Field (Biological Sciences), Rosamond Naylor (Freeman Spogli Institute) and David Lobell (Environmental Earth System Science)

 Biomass Energy: The Climate-Protective Domain, Gregory Asner, the Carnegie Institution of Science

 Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells, Alberto Salleo (Materials Science and Engineering) and Yi Cui (Materials Science and Engineering)

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 Assembly of a Lignin Modification Toolbox, Clint Chapple and Alan Friedman, Purdue University

 Towards New Degradable Lignin Types, Wout Boerjan, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium

 Novel Plants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via

Remutagenesis, Claire Halpin and Gordon Simpson, University of Dundee, U.K.

 Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes, Zhenan Bao (Chemical Engineering)

 Photo-electric Enhancement of Thermionic Emission, Nicholas Melosh (Materials Science and Engineering) and Zhi-Xun Shen (Applied Physics and SLAC

National Laboratory)

 Ultra-High Efficiency Thermo-Photovoltaic Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter, Shanhui Fan (Electrical Engineering)

 Ultra-High Efficiency Thermo-Photovoltaic Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter, Paul Braun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 Advanced CO2/H2 Separation and Storage Nanoporous Materials Incorporating Active Functional Agents, Yuichi Fujioka, Shingo Kazama and Katsunori Yogo, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Japan

 Efficient Biomass Conversion: Delineating the Best Lignin Monomer-Substitutes, John Ralph, Xuejun Pan and Sara Patterson, University of Wisconsin – Madison

 Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China, Dongxiao Zhang and Kristian Jessen, University of South California

 Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China, Qingdong Cai, Bin Gong and Yi Zheng, Peking University, China

 Collaborative Research on Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers in China, Yilian Li, Yanxin Wang and Jianmei Cheng, China University of Geosciences, China

 Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration, Kevin Tomsovic, University of Tennessee

 Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration, Thomas Overbye, Peter Sauer, George Gross, Philip

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Krein and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High

Renewable Penetration, Hanoch Levi-Ari and Ali Abur, Northeastern University

 Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power Grid Operation with High Renewable Penetration, Joe Chow, Jian Sun and Daniel Shawhan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 Combustion Testing and Analysis of an Extreme States Approach to Low-Irreversibility Engines, Christopher Edwards (Mechanical Engineering)

 Developing Solid-State Electrocatalysts Based on Design Principles From Nature: The Oxidation of Water and the Reduction of CO2 to Fuels, Thomas Jaramillo (Chemical Engineering) and Jens Norskov (Chemical Engineering)

 Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO2 Injection to Geophysical Parameters, Gary Mavko (Geophysics)

 Linking Chemical and Physical Effects of CO2 Injection to Geophysical Parameters, Andreas Luttge and Rolf S. Arvidson, Rice University

 Multiphase Flow of CO2 and Brine in Rocks, Sally Benson (Energy Resources Engineering)

 Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards

Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells, Zhenan Bao (Chemical Engineering)

 Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

 Reactivity of CO2 in the Subsurface, Katharine Maher (Geological and

Environmental Science), Dennis Bird (Geological and Environmental Science) and Gordon Brown (Geological and Environmental Science)

 Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV), Michael McGehee (Materials Science and Engineering) and Alan

Sellinger (Materials Science and Engineering)

 Synthesis of Biofuels on Bioelectrodes, Alfred Spormann (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

 A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilizing H-C-O Chemistry, Scott Barnett, Northwestern University

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 A Novel Solid Oxide Flow Battery Utilizing H-C-O Chemistry, Robert Braun and Robert Kee, Colorado School of Mines

 Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems, Jeremy Meyers and Allen Bard, University of Texas at Austin

 Novel Electrolyte Energy Storage Systems, Thomas Zawodzinski, Jr. and Alex Papandrew, University of Tennessee

 Low-Cost Flywheel Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Power Generation, Richard Thompson, Robert Hebner and Siddharth Pratap, University of Texas at Austin

 Low-Cost Flywheel Energy Storage for Mitigating the Variability of Renewable Power Generation, Ray Baughman and Shaoli Fang, University of Texas at Dallas

 Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell, Zhenan Bao (Chemical Engineering)

 Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion, Jennifer Dionne (Materials Science & Engineering) and Alberto Salleo (Materials Science & Engineering)

 The Sootless Diesel: Use of In-Plume Fuel Transformation to Enable High-Load, High-Efficiency, Clean Combustion, Christopher Edwards (Mechanical

Engineering)

 Using First-principles Simulations to Discover Materials with Ultra-low Work Functions for Energy Conversion Applications, Roger Howe (Electrical

Engineering), Jens Norskov (Chemical Engineering) and Piero Pianetta (SLAC)

 Safe, Inexpensive, and Very High Power Batteries For Use To Reduce Short Term Transients on the Electric Grid, Robert Huggins (Materials Science & Engineering) and Yi Cui (Materials Science & Engineering)

 Capturing Electrical Current via Mechanisms Used for Interspecies Electron Transfer to Produce Methane, Alfred Spormann (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

 Efficient, Highly Productive Hydrogen Production From Glucose, James Swartz (Mechanical Engineering)

Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES) Funded through SLAC by the Department of Energy

Multi-year DOE Field Work Projects

 Time-Resolved Soft X-ray Materials Science at the Linac Coherent Light Source and the Advanced Light Source, Thomas Devereaux (Physics, SLAC), Hermann

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Durr (SLAC), Aaron Lindenberg (Materials Science and Eng.), David Reis (Applied Physics), Wendy Mao (Geological and Environ. Sci., Geophysics)

 Magnetization and Dynamics, Hermann Durr (SLAC), Kathryn Moler (Applied Physics), Joachim Stohr (SLAC), Andreas Scherz (SLAC)

 Correlated Materials - Synthesis and Physical Properties, Ian Fisher (Applied Physics, Materials Science and Eng.), Theodore Geballe (Materials Science and Eng.), Aharon Kapitulnik (Applied Physics), Steven Kivelson (Physics) and Kathryn Moler (Applied Physics)

 Clatherin Biotemplating, Sarah Heilshorn (Materials Science and Eng.), Sebastian Doniach (Applied Physics), Nicholas Melosh (Materials Science and Eng.), Andrew Spakowitz (Chemical Engineering)

 Atomic Engineering Oxide Heterostructures: Materials by Design, Harold Hwang (Applied Physics, SLAC) and Joachim Stohr (SLAC)

 PES-Beamline, Donghui Lu (SLAC) and Zhi-Xun Shen (Physics, Applied Physics)

 Diamondoid Science and Applications, Nicholas Melosh (Materials Science and Eng.), Thomas Devereaux (Physics, SLAC), Hari Manoharan (Physics), Piero Pianetta (Electrical Engineering), Zhi-Xun Shen (Physics, Applied Physics)

 Interfaces and Catalysis for Energy Conversion and Storage, Anders Nilsson (SLAC), Michael Toney (SLAC) and Wendy Mao (Geological and Environ. Sci., Geophysics)

 Electronic and Magnetic Structure of Quantum Materials, Zhi-Xun Shen (Physics, Applied Physics), Thomas Devereaux (Physics, SLAC), Yulin Chen (SLAC), Robert Moore (SLAC)

 Spin Physics, Shoucheng Zhang (Physics, Applied Physics), David Goldhaber-Gordon (Physics), and Hari Manoharan (Physics)

 Topological Insulators, Xiao-Liang Qi (Physics), Yulin Chen (SLAC), Aharon Kapitulnik (Applied Physics), and Kathryn Moler (Applied Physics)

SLAC funded Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Projects

 Designing Nanomaterial for Energy Storage, Yi Cui (Materials Science and Eng.)

 In-situ X-ray Characterization and Nanoscale Imaging of Energy Storage Nanomaterials, Michael Toney (SLAC)

 Towards in-Situ Growth and Spectroscopy of Complex Oxide Thin Films Heterostructures, Harold Hwang (Applied Physics, SLAC)

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 Synthesis and Characterization of Highfrequency Magnetic Metamaterials for Turnable Light Harvesting and Emission, Jennifer Dionne (Materials Science and Eng.)

 Correlated Electron Physics at Oxide Interfaces, Srinivas Raghu (Physics, SLAC)

 X-Ray Scattering from Solution-Cast Films for Organic Solar Cells, Stefan Mannsfeld (SLAC), Zhenan Bao (Chemical Engineering), Michael McGehee (Materials Science and Eng.), Alberto Salleo (Materials Science and Eng.) and Michael Toney (SLAC)

Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES) Funded through Stanford, Dean of Research

 Rational Design of Organic Semiconductors for Low Cost Electronics and Alternative Energy Materials, Zhenan Bao (Chemical Engineering) and Michael Toney (SLAC)

 Ion Induced Nanoscale Structure Transformation for Next Generation of

Electrochemical Energy Storage, Yi Cui (Materials Science and Eng.) and Aaron Lindenberg (Materials Science and Eng.)

 Exploration of Core-Hole Dynamics in Fe-S Clusters, Thomas Devereaux (Physics, SLAC) and Edward Solomon (Chemistry)

 Molecular Engineering of Biotemplated Nanolattices and Nanospheres, Sarah Heilshorn (Materials Science and Eng.), Sebastian Doniach (Applied Physics), Nicholas Melosh (Materials Science and Eng.), Andrew Spakowitz (Chemical Engineering)

 Investigating Feasibility of Using LCLS for Condensed Matter Experiments, Wei-Sheng Lee (SLAC)

 Organic Semiconductors for Low-Cost Electronics and Solar Cells, Michael McGehee (Materials Science and Eng.)

 MBE-ARPES Development for Implementation at SSRL BL 5-4, Robert Moore (SLAC)