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Solar Energy
Solar energy is a source of energy that uses radiation emitted by the sun. It is a renewable energy source that has been used in many traditional technologies for centuries. It is also in widespread use where other power supplies are absent, such as in remote locations and in space. Solar energy is currently used in a number of applications: heat , electricity generation, transportation, desalination of seawater, photosynthesis by plants
Rakesh Agrawal
Purdue University
Department of Chemical Engineering
agrawalr@purdue.edu
Interests: biomass to liquid fuel through thermochemical routes, design and fabrication of low-cost and high efficiency solar cells.
Eray Aydil
University of Minnesota
Department of chemical Engineering and Material Science
aydil@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy using nanotechnology.
David Blank
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemistry
blank009@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy using organic photovoltaics.
Jane Davidson
University of Minnesota
Department of Mechnaical Engineering
david020@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy, solar thermal heating systems.
Timothy Donohue
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Principal Investigator, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
tdonohue@bact.wisc.edu
Interests:how microbes harness and convert solar energy, microbes in biomass or biofuels from sunlight, conversion of energy in sunlight or renewable nutrients into cell biomass or biofuel formation.
Lorraine Francis
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science
lfrancis@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy, solar thermal heating systems.
C.Daniel Frisbie
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
frisb001@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy using organic photovoltaics.
Wayne Gladfelter
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemistry
gladf001@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy using ink jet technology.
Marc Hillmyer
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemistry
hillm010@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy using organic photovoltaics.
Uwe Kortshagen
University of Minnesota
Department of Mechanical Engineering
korts001@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy using nanotechnology.
Frank Kulacki
University of Minnesota
Department of Mechanical Engineering
kulac001@umn.edu
Interests: hybrid wing-solar energy generation, solar thermal heating systems.
Susan Mantell
University of Minnesota
Department of Mechanical Engineering
mante001@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy, solar thermal heating systems.
Ruth Miller
Kansas State University
Departmtne of Electrical and Computer Engineering
rdmiller@ksu.edu
Interests: solar energy.
Daniel A. Norris
Kansas State University
Departmtne of Chemistry
higgins@ksu.edu
Interest: solar energy.
David Norris
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
dnorris@umn.edu
Interests: solar energy using nanotechnology.
F. Robert Tabita
Ohio State University
tabita.1@osu.edu
Interests: carbon dioxide assimilation, catalyzing solar-driven bioconversions to form biofuels and hydrogen gas.
Wallace Tyner
Purdue University
Department of Agricultural Economics
wtyner@purdue.edu
Interests: oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, and biomass energy, renewable energy policy alternatives for the future.
