Welcome to the Kitchin Group Research Portal

Our group utilizes chemistry, catalysis and engineering to develop solutions to energy and environment related problems such as CO2 capture and efficient energy conversion. We use experimental and computational methods in electrochemistry, sorbent development and heterogeneous catalysis of CO2 utilization.

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Our current projects include:

CO2 capture

Post-combustion

Amine-based sorbents (Rich Alesi and Anita Lee)

Aqueous carbonate solvents (Josh Bordin)

Electrochemical separation of CO2 from flue gas (James Landon and Ethan Demeter)

Pre-combustion

Sorbents for sorbent-enhanced water gas shift (Frank DeCarlo)

Electrochemical hydrogen separation from syngas (Ethan Demeter)

Oxy-combustion

Electrochemical oxygen separation from air (James Landon)

Non-Pt containing oxygen evolution electrocatalysts (Natalie Brandell)

Solid oxide fuel cell cathode materials (Robin Chao)

Biorenewable H2 production by electrochemical reforming (Dana Evert-Parise)

Electrochemical CO2 reduction

Computational Catalysis

Modeling coverage effects in surface reactions (Spencer Miller)

Modeling CO2 reduction (Nilay Inoglu)

Designing bifunctional impurity-based catalysts (Collaboration with Charlie Sykes)

Sulfur-tolerant alloy catalysts

We gratefully acknowledge funding from:

NETL

DOE-BES

Siemens

IFYRE/SURF

CMU

Berkman Foundation

CMU REU/PREM