Energy and Environment
As a growing society, we require energy to fuel the global economic growth that will lift many people out of poverty. We also need more water and clean air to meet the basic needs of our growing population.
This quest for an expanded energy supply includes research into solar cells, batteries, fuels from renewable biomass, and the environmentally responsible production and use of fossil energy resources. Research related to expanding water resources deals with desalination. At Penn State, we use experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches to make major advances in this field.
Key Faculty
- Konstantinos Alexopoulos
- Monty Alger
- Christopher Arges (starting Fall 2021)
- Bert Chandler
- Wayne Curtis
- Enrique Gomez
- Lauren Greenlee (starting Fall 2021)
- Michael Janik
- Seong Kim
- Bruce Logan
- Janna Maranas
- Hee Jeung Oh
- Robert Rioux
- Phillip Savage
- Amir Sheikhi
- Ezgi Toraman
- Bryan Vogt
- Chao-Yang Wang
- Donghai Wang
- Xueyi Zhang
Research Focus Areas
- Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology
- Energy and Environment
- Interfaces and Surfaces
- Materials and Nanotechnology
- Separations and Transport
- Systems Engineering
