Our carbon portfolio focuses on isolating and leveraging carbon byproducts of various industrial sectors through capture, storage, and conversion techniques. At LLNL, our materials scientists and engineers work at the forefront of designing technologies, materials, and processes that cross-cut multiple carbon pathways, including:
- Conversion of carbon feedstocks into useful products like chemicals and fuels
- Carbon capture, separation, and purification from industrial point sources
- Integrated carbon capture and conversion for process intensification and improved efficiency
Our researchers are involved across the spectrum of research and development activities, from fundamental science to design, development, and scale-up to implementation.
We leverage onsite expertise in a variety of areas—materials science, adsorption and reaction phenomena, multiphysics and multiscale modeling, chemical engineering, and advanced manufacturing—to improve technology performance and readiness in this area.
Cross-cutting research
Our carbon portfolio crosscuts other work in degradation science. In this area, we rely on a combination of advanced quantum simulations and experimental materials synthesis and characterization to:
- Study the degradation mechanisms of soft matter, catalysts, and reactors used for capturing and converting carbon dioxide
- Apply fundamental insights to co-design materials and systems with improved lifetime and performance
Our work demonstrates how subtle chemical changes in materials can make materials last longer, offering potential cost savings for carbon capture technologies.
