Partnering with Industry to Advance Research in Carbon Capture, Solar Energy, and Sensors
Partnering with Industry to Advance Research in Carbon Capture, Solar Energy, and Sensors
Monday, June 10, 12-1:00pm
Join Northwestern University’s Corporate Engagement team for a webinar on the latest research in sustainability and energy led by Ted Sargent, Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University and Co-Executive Director of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy.
Who Should Participate
Business and academic leaders interested in learning more about the role of capturing and utilizing CO2, higher-efficiency solar cells, and new sensor technology in industry.
Summary
The Sargent Group at Northwestern studies the underlying science, and develops technologies and prototypes, aimed at:
- Enabling the capture of CO2, including from dilute sources such as air
- Upgrading CO2 to chemicals and fuels, the process powered using low-caron-intensity electricity
- Developing solar cells that materially increase performance relative to today’s technologies, while studying issues such as scalable materials processing and reliability
- New sensor technologies, such as photon sensors in the infrared, including in the form of integrated circuits/image sensors.
Professor Sargent will summarize recent contributions in these areas and discuss current activities and thoughts on future directions.
This webinar will highlight opportunities for industry partners to engage with the Sargent Group and with the Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy, which represents a diverse group of interdisciplinary faculty from across NU.
Speaker Bio:
Ted Sargent is Co-Executive Director of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University. Within his research group at Northwestern, he leads a team of sixty researchers in Chemistry and in Engineering working on next generation solar, optical sensing, and CO2 direct air capture and CO2 upgrade science and technology. His published works have been cited 110,000 times; 170 of his works have been cited 170 times or more. More information on his work is available at light.northwestern.edu.