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Announcements The 2013 CENTC Summer School is now accepting applications. Click here for more information. The 2013 CENTC Summer Undergraduate Research Program is no longer accepting applications. We thank all applicants for their interest.
What is CENTC? The Center for Enabling New
Technologies
Through Catalysis (CENTC) is a National Science
Foundation Phase II
Center for Chemical Innovation. CENTC brings
together researchers from
across North America to collaboratively address the
economic,
environmental and national security needs for more
efficient,
inexpensive and environmentally friendly methods of
producing chemicals
and fuels from a variety of feedstocks.
Through catalysis, CENTC researchers can lower the energy costs to transforming chemicals, use inexpensive, abundant and nontoxic starting materials and generate less waste. Fundamentally new technologies are needed to reduce our dependency on foreign oil both for fuels and for chemicals. The production of chemicals including plastics and medicines from petroleum can be made more efficient through catalysis. Novel catalytic methods are also needed to develop alternatives to petroleum for fuels and chemicals. Coal, shale and biomass may all be viable as starting materials for the production of fuels.
CENTC Partner Institutions
Copper-based Water Oxidation Catalyst Reported in Nature Chemistry, Highlighted in C&E News
John Hartwig Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Travel Scholarships Available for 2012 Green Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar
Huimin Zhao Awarded 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship CENTC Undergraduate Skye Rios Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship ![]() Promote Your Page Too |
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The Center for Enabling New Technologies
Through
Catalysis is a National Science Foundation Center for
Chemical
Innovation
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