UC Irvine will receive $2 million over five years as part of two of 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy. The goal is to accelerate scientific breakthroughs necessary to build a sustainable energy economy. Chemists John C. Hemminger (pictured) and Matt Law are part of the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics involving Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, which will develop materials that convert sunlight to electricity with high efficiency. Chemist Reg Penner and physicist Phil Collins are involved with the Center for the Science of Precision Multifunctional Nanostructure for Electrical Energy Storage at the University of Maryland that aims to design a new generation of electrodes for electrical energy storage.   More »