Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals | Forensic Science | Inorganic Materials
Our Interests
Biomass ———————————————–> Sugars and Chemicals
1. Energy efficient catalytic processing of biomass for fuels and chemical feedstock.
mechanically induced catalysis
co-products for lower fuel costs
solid frustrated Lewis pairs for hydrogenation and CO2 capture
2. d10 metal fluorescent indicators for trace and presumptive identification of substances of abuse
3. Characterization and processing of biodiesel and biojet fuel
4. Alternative synthetic methods using ball mills in place of heating (mechanochemistry)
Mechanically induced self propagating syntheses
Large-scale syntheses
Research
Our research focuses on new methods for the production of biomass-derived chemicals and feedstocks
The rapid identification of pharmacologically active substances and their metabolites using fluorecent d10 cluster complexes
• We are investigating the kinetics and mechanisms inorganic synthesis through high-energy ball milling.
