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Thomas Jaramillo

SUNCAT Director, Associate Professor of chemical engineering and of photon science

Areas of research: Energy sciences; catalysis; sustainable production and use of fuels and chemicals

It’s time to reinvent how we produce and use fuels and chemicals. At SUNCAT we work to develop the science and engineering foundations for future sustainable technologies in these important sectors.”

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Their work aims to bridge two approaches to driving the reaction – one powered by heat, the other by electricity – with the goal...

A ball-and-stick illustration of a single nickel atom (green) bonded to nitrogen atoms (blue) on the surface of a carbon material. The arrangement allows the nickel atoms to catalyze two types of reactions involved in making fuel from CO2.

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Replacing today’s expensive catalysts could bring down the cost of producing the gas for fuel, fertilizer and clean energy storage.

Grad student McKenzie Hubert watches electrolyzer at work

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SUNCAT researchers discover a way to improve a key step in these conversions, and explore what it would take to turn the climate-changing gas...

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Thomas Jaramillo

Scientists show a single catalyst can perform the first step of turning CO2 into fuel in two very different ways

Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a commercial device

Plastics, fuels and chemical feedstocks from CO2? They’re working on it.

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