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Energy and the Environment at Carolina Biofuels. • Energy and the Environment - oversight. Institute for the Environment (Crawford-Brown). Energy and Environment Committee (Meyer). Institute for Advanced Materials (DeSimone). • Research focus areas
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Energy and the Environment at Carolina Biofuels • Energy and the Environment - oversight Institute for the Environment (Crawford-Brown) Energy and Environment Committee (Meyer) Institute for Advanced Materials (DeSimone) • Research focus areas Biofuels, solar energy, energy supply, sustainable communities, near coastal modeling
Research Areas at Carolina Plant Biology • crop yields based on Arabidopsis • controlling seed losses • grasses for cellulosic ethanol • increasing plant mass Chemistry • biodiesel by chemocatalysis • enzyme immobilization and encapsulation • carbon-hydrogen bond activation catalysis • photochemical energy conversion
Participating Faculty Biology –Jeff Dangl, Sarah Grant, Alan Jones, Joe Kieber, Sarah Liljegren, Charles Mitchell, Jason Reed Chemistry –Maurice Bookhart, Joe Desimone, Wenbin Lin, Thomas J. Meyer, John Papnikolas, Joseph Templeton, Rihe Liu Energy and Environment Committee Thomas J. Meyer tjmeyer@email.unc.edu # 843-8313 Institute for the Environment Douglas Crawford-Brown douglas_crawford-brown@.unc.edu # 966-6026 Institute for Advanced Materials Joe DeSimone desimone@unc.edu # 962-2166