|
Professor Peter Cummings will lead the theory effort in a new DOE energy frontier research center (EFRC).
Cummings will play a key role in a new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research
Center announced by the White House on April 27. The Fluid
Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center is
one of two such centers that the Department of Energy is
establishing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and one of
46 that it is setting up nationwide. Each of the centers will be
supported with $2.5 million per year for five years. The FIRST center will improve our understanding of how
gases and liquids interact with solid surfaces in applications ranging from better batteries
to more efficient methods for converting solar and electrical
energy into fuel, improved fuel cells, and enhancing the
corrosion resistance of materials.
Peter
Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering at
Vanderbilt, is a member of the FIRST leadership team. David J.
Wesolowski from ORNL will direct the new center. Cummings will
serve as a co-principal investigator along with David R. Cole,
Sheng Dai and Steven Overbury from ORNL and will be overseeing
the center’s theory, modeling and simulation efforts.
|
News and Events 
