Chemistry and Nanoscience Research Areas
NREL's chemistry and nanoscience research develops and demonstrates the key enabling science and technology for functional materials and processing for clean energy as well as hydrogen at scale.
NREL’s primary research in chemistry and nanoscience includes the following research areas:
Electrical Energy Storage
Lithium-ion batteries
Radical organic batteries
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
HydroGEN Energy Materials Network
ElectroCat Energy Materials Network
Photovoltaics
High-efficiency crystalline photovoltaics
Quantum dot solar cells
Dynamic windows
Solar Photochemistry
Excitons to charge carrier in molecular and nanoscale systems
Quantum-confined semiconductors
Solar fuels
Manufacturing for Energy Applications
Roll-to-roll manufacturing
Atmospheric processing tool
Quantum and Carbon Nanomaterials
Carbon nanoscience
Thermoelectric materials
Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics
Quantized perovskites
The Chemistry and Nanoscience Center is part of the Materials, Chemical, and Computational Science directorate, led by Associate Laboratory Director Bill Tumas.