To learn more about each of the 46 EFRC centers, click on the stars in the map or the html links below.
Centers ordered alphabetically by state and then by center name
Arizona
Center for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production (BISfuel)
Devens Gust, Arizona State University
Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials (CISSEM)
Neal R. Armstrong, University of Arizona
California
Center for Energy Efficient Materials (CEEM)
John Bowers, University of California, Santa Barbara
Center for Energy Nanoscience (CEN)
P. Daniel Dapkus, University of Southern California
Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies (CGS)
Berend Smit, University of California, Berkeley
Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 (NCGC)
Donald J. DePaolo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion (CNEEC)
Fritz Prinz and Stacey Bent, Stanford University
Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI-EFRC)
Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology
Molecularly Engineered Energy Materials (MEEM)
Vidvuds Ozolins, University of California, Los Angeles
Colorado
Center for Inverse Design (CID)
Bill Tumas, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Delaware
Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI)
Dion Vlachos, University of Delaware
District of Columbia
Center for Energy Frontier Research in Extreme Environments (EFree)
Ho-kwang Mao, Carnegie Institute of Washington
Idaho
Center for Materials Science of Nuclear Fuel (CMSNF)
Todd Allen, Idaho National Laboratory
Illinois
Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center
Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University
Center for Electrical Energy Storage (CEES)
Michael Thackeray, Argonne National Laboratory
Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT)
Christopher L. Marshall, Argonne National Laboratory
Non-equilibrium Energy Research Center (NERC)
Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Northwestern University
Indiana
Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio)
Maureen McCann, Purdue University
Materials Science of Actinides (MSA)
Peter Burns, University of Notre Dame
Louisiana
Center for Atomic-Level Catalyst Design (CALCD)
James Spivey, Louisiana State University
Maryland
Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES)
Gary Rubloff, University of Maryland
Massachusetts
Center for Excitonics (CE)
Marc Baldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy (PHaSE)
Thomas P. Russell and Paul M. Lahti, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)
Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan
Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion (CSTEC)
Peter F. Green, University of Michigan
Revolutionary Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion (RMSSEC)
Donald T. Morelli, Michigan State University
Missouri
Center for Advanced Biofuel Systems (CABS)
Jan Jaworski, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC)
Robert E. Blankenship, Washington University in St. Louis
New Jersey
Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center (CEFRC)
Chung K. Law, Princeton University
New Mexico
Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP)
Victor I. Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes (CMIME)
Amit Misra, Los Alamos National Laboratory
EFRC for Solid State Lighting Science (SSLS)
Michael E. Coltrin, Sandia National Laboratories
New York
Center for Electrocatalysis, Transport Phenomena and Materials for Innovative Energy Storage (CETM)
Grigorii Soloveichik, General Electric Global Research
Center for Emergent Superconductivity (CES)
J. C. Seamus Davis, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Energy Materials Center at Cornell (emc2)
Hector D. Abruna, Cornell University
Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES)
M. Stanley Whittingham, Stony Brook University
Re-Defining Photovoltaic Efficiency Through Molecule Scale Control (RPEMSC)
James Yardley, Columbia University
North Carolina
Center for Solar Fuels (UNC)
Thomas J. Meyer, University of North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation (CLSF)
Daniel Cosgrove, Pennsylvania State University
South Carolina
Heterogeneous Functional Materials Center (HeteroFoaM)
Kenneth Reifsnider, University of South Carolina
Tennessee
Center for Defect Physics in Structural Materials (CDP)
G. Malcolm Stocks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport Center (FIRST)
David J. Wesolowski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Texas
Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES)
Gary A. Pope, University of Texas at Austin
Understanding Charge Separation and Transfer at Interfaces in Energy Materials (EFRC:CST)
Peter J. Rossky, University of Texas at Austin
Virginia
Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization (CCHF)
T. Brent Gunnoe, University of Virginia
Washington
Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis (CME)
R. Morris Bullock, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory