Energy and Sustainability

Many research groups in the Department of Chemistry focus on the chemistry of energy and sustainability. The research spans a broad range of traditional sub-disciplines. Active projects involve developing sustainable and benign synthetic methodologies and separations techniques; understanding and mitigating the environmental effects of pollutants; designing and synthesizing molecular and materials-based architectures for energy storage and conversion; elucidating energy-conversion mechanisms via spectroscopic and computational methods; and developing catalysts, sensors, and photonic devices comprised of earth-abundant elements.

Many of these efforts involve highly interdisciplinary collaborations between chemists and also with researchers in the natural sciences, engineering and medicine at UB and elsewhere.