Bioinspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC)

Director
Gregory Scholes
Lead Institution
Princeton University
Class
2018-2022
Mission
To employ light harvesting and advances in solar photochemistry to enable unprecedented photoinduced cross-coupling reactions that valorize abundant molecules.
Research Topics
catalysis (homogeneous), solar (fuels), optics, biomass and biofuels, bio-inspired, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design
Systems Studied
Systems: molecules, biological
Interfaces: None
Nanostructured: None
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
ultrafast science

Partner Institutions
- Arizona State University
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Michigan State University
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- North Carolina State University
- Princeton University
- University of Colorado