CAMD is Part of New Research Center to do Energy Research at LSU
The Department of Energy has awarded LSU a $12.5 million grant to set up an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) to find greener and better sources of energy as efficient substitutes for fossil fuel. The EFRC will be headed by Jerry Spivey, McLaurin Shivers Professor of Chemical Engineering at LSU. His team will consist of 21 researchers from across nine institutions. The multi-disciplinary research project will utilize, among other resources, CAMD’s synchrotron facilities to synthesize and characterize novel monostructured catalysts. CAMD’s Nanomaterials Lab, directed by Prof. Challa Kumar, to synthesize novel nanomaterials to be tested for their catalytic capabilities for energy applications. Challa and other energy-center researchers will use the X-ray capabilities of CAMD (X-ray-absorption spectroscopies and X-ray diffraction) to characterize the nano materials and products of the catalytic reactions.

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