Opportunities, Initiatives, and Overlap: Physical Sciences Research Targeting Future Energy Needs Anne E. V. Gorden Representing Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Opportunities in Energy: Expanding Ease of Access to Energy Reducing Environmental Impacts Improving Energy Efficiency Increasing Sustainability

Synthetic Methods Green Chemistry And Environmental Science Nuclear or Radiochemistry Gorden Biofuels and Biomimics Duin Monsoorabadi 1-N-Me-His 5-Me-Arg S-Me-Cys 2-Me-Gln ThioGly F430 CoM-S-S-CoB Materials Stanbury Patkowski Shannon RSH + O 2  ? (RSSR, RSO 2 H, (RSO 2 ) 2, RSO 3 H) RSO 2 H + oxidant  ? (rates and products?) Catalysis Goldsmith Gorden

Facilities and Resources:  Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility  Mass Spectrometry Facility  Bruker D8 Powder Diffractometer  Bruker APEX Single Crystal Diffractometer  Physical Properties Measurement System  Renishaw InVia Confocal Raman Microscope  CRAIC UV-Vis Microspectrophotometer  Alabama Supercomputer and Computational Clusters

Examples of Current Funding NSF - National Science Foundation (Acevedo, Patowski, Duin) DTRA - Defense Threat Reduction Agency (Gorden) PRF- American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund (Stanbury, Goldsmith, Patkowski) NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Duin) New Potential Sources of Funding USDOE – Department of Energy NEUP – Nuclear Energy University Programs EMSP – Environmental Management Science Programs NRC – Nuclear Regulatory Commission NIH – National Institutes of Health USDA – Department of Agriculture ONR/ARO – Office of Naval Research or Army Research Opportunities, Initiatives, and Overlap: Physical Sciences Research Targeting Future Energy Needs

Cluster Opportunity Ideas:  Green Chemistry and Sustainability  Catalysis and Biocatalysis  Nuclear and Radiochemistry  Energy and the Environment

Principles of “Green” Chemistry Replace chemicals with more environmentally friendly materials Replace more costly catalyst metals with less costly less toxic metals for catalysis Improve yields to reduce purifications required Reduce solvents and materials required for separations or purifications Anastas, P. T.; Kirchhoff, M. M., Origins, Current Status, and Future Challenges in Green Chemistry. Acc. Chem. Res. 2002, 35, (9),