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

A Ce-CuZn catalyst with abundant Cu/Zn-OV-Ce active sites for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Runping Ye , Lixuan Ma, Jianing Mao, Xinyao Wang, Xiaoling Hong, Alessandro Gallo, Yanfu Ma, Wenhao Luo, Baojun Wang, Riguang Zhang, Melis Seher Duyar, Zheng Jiang , Jian Liu. Nature Communications
Prediction of Feasibility of Polaronic OER on (110) Surface of Rutile TiO2. Hori Pada Sarker, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Michal Bajdich . Chem Phys Chem. 2024.
Modeling diurnal and annual ethylene generation from solar-driven electrochemical CO2 reduction devices. Kyra M. K. Yap, William J. Wei, Melanie Rodriguez Pabon, Alex J. King, Justin C. Bui, Lingze Wei, Sang-Won Lee, Adam Z. Weber, Alexis T. Bell, Adam C. Nielander, Thomas F. Jaramillo. Energy and Environmental Science. 2024.

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22
Dr. Evan Carlson
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05
Prof. Felix Studt
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