Developing clean energy technologies that are affordable and sustainable are key to reducing our dependence of fossil fuels and the resulting negative climate impacts.
Four faculty in the Department of Chemistry — David Beratan, Jie Liu, Ivan Moreno-Hernandez and Michael Therien — are exploring promising new directions in renewable energy research. From finding cost-effective ways to transport hydrogen to investigating biological models of energy conversion, these professors are moving us closer to finding energy solutions that are cleaner, less expensive and more portable than ever before.
Scientific breakthroughs don't happen in a vacuum: they grow from a solid, and often decades-long, foundation of basic research. This research is taking place every day at Duke, and scholars like Beratan, Liu, Moreno-Hernandez and Therien are among those leading the way.
