Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis
A NSF Center for Chemical Innovation
A NSF Center for Chemical Innovation
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Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis
A NSF Center for Chemical Innovation |
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CENTC Research
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 research is currently being carried out to address three of the major chemical and economic challenges of the 21st century: |
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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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