SUNCAT Mission

The SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis is a partnership between Stanford School of Engineering and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The mission of SUNCAT is to overcome challenges associated with the atomic-scale design of catalysts for chemical transformations of interest for sustainable energy conversion and storage. By combining experimental and computational methods we are developing a quantitative description of chemical processes at the solid-gas and solid-liquid interface. By identifying the factors controlling the catalytic properties of solid surfaces, we devise strategies to design new catalysts. Our approach integrates electronic structure theory, kinetic modeling and data science with operando and in-situ characterization techniques, synthesis of alloys, compounds, and functional nanostructures, and experimental testing under realistic process conditions.

Recent Publications

In situ formation of liquid crystal interphase in electrolytes with soft templating effects for aqueous dual-electrode-free batteries. Yuqi Li, Xueli Zheng, Evan Z. Carlson, Xin Xiao, Xiwen Chi, Louisa C. Greenburg, Ge Zhang, Elizabeth Zhang, Chenwei Liu, Yufei Yang, Mun Sek Kim, Guangxia Feng, Pu Zhang, Hance Su, Xun Guan, Jiawei Zhou, Yecun Wu, Zhichen Xue, Weiyu Li, Michal Bajdich, Yi Cui. Nature Energy. 2024.
CO2 Conversion to Butene via a Tandem Photovoltaic–Electrochemical/Photothermocatalytic Process: A Co-Design Approach to Coupled Microenvironments. Kyra M. K. Yap, Aisulu A. Aitbekova, Matthew Salazar, Tobias A. Kistler, Melane Rodriguez Pabon, Magel P. Su, Nicholas B. Watkins, Sang-Won Lee, Peter Agbo, Adam Z. Weber, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, Adam C. Nielander, Harry A. Atwater, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Alexis T. Bell. ACS Energy Letters, 4369-4377. 2024.
Density Functional Tight-Binding Models for Band Structures of Transition-Metal Alloys and Surfaces across the d-Block. Filippo Balzaretti, Johannes Voss. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 2024.

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Dr. Shyama Mandal
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