@article{7f649968ffb64a11bbc24d4db4dc4c51,
title = "Chemistry in the center for catalytic hydrocarbon functionalization: An energy frontier research center",
abstract = "Selective catalysts that activate small molecules such as hydrocarbons, dioxygen, water, carbon dioxide and dihydrogen are central to new technologies for the use of alternative energy sources. For example, controlled hydrocarbon functionalization can lead to high impact technologies, but such catalysts require a level of molecular control beyond current means. The Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization facilitates collaborations among research groups in catalysis, materials, electrochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry and quantum mechanics to develop, validate and optimize new methods to rearrange the bonds of hydrocarbons, activate and transform water and carbon dioxide, implement enzymatic strategies into synthetic systems and design optimal environments for catalysis.",
keywords = "Carbon dioxide, Catalysis, Energy, Fuel cell, Functionalization, Hydrocarbon, Methane, Methanol",
author = "Golisz, {Suzanne R.} and {Brent Gunnoe}, T. and Goddard, {William A.} and Groves, {John Taylor} and Periana, {Roy A.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgment This publication is based upon work supported as part of the Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under award number DE-SC0001298. Funding Information: Widespread access to clean, sustainable energy is arguably society{\textquoteright}s most important and substantial challenge. Over millions of years, nature stored large amounts of solar energy in the form of coal, petroleum and natural gas. Within the last century, an enormous infrastructure has been built to exploit these fossil resources. For example, in the United States, 84% of energy is derived from fossil resources (petroleum, 37%; coal, 23%; natural gas, 24%) [1]. While the discovery and development of fossil resources has provided the foundation for modern society, concerns regarding the potential negative environmental impact are increasingly relevant. Technologies and processes for efficient, inexpensive and scalable energy that minimize negative environmental impact while decreasing dependence on coal and petroleum are urgently needed. New catalysis technologies are central to achieving this goal. The purpose of the Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization (CCHF), an Energy Frontier Research Center that is funded by the United States Department of Energy, is to pursue fundamental research in the development of next-generation catalysts for energy conversion.",
year = "2011",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1007/s10562-010-0499-5",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "141",
pages = "213--221",
journal = "Catalysis Letters",
issn = "1011-372X",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "2",
}