An Energy Frontier Research Center

 

Inspired by nature, Bio-inspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC) uses light harvesting and solar photochemistry to enable unprecedented chemical reactions that generate useful products from abundant feedstocks and waste.

 

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Now in our fifth year of funding, we achieve our aims by combining wide-ranging expertise centered on a single mission, bringing together our team of organic and inorganic chemists, biochemists, spectroscopists, physical chemists, materials scientists, theorists and engineers to approach catalysis in new ways.

BioLEC News

BioLEC hosts Emmanuel College professor for summer of research

BioLEC hosts Emmanuel College professor for summer of research

BioLEC was delighted to host Professor Juan Duchimaza Heredia at Princeton Chemistry Department this summer as part of the Visiting Faculty Research Partnership. Prof. Duchimaza Heredia is an Assistant Professor at Emmanuel College, and he brought two undergraduate...

BioLEC welcomes two new Distinguished Postdocs

BioLEC welcomes two new Distinguished Postdocs

BioLEC is delighted to announce the addition of two new Distinguished Postdocs to our center: Nidhi Kaul and Cole Sorensen. Nidhi joins us from Uppsala University in Sweden, where she worked with Leif Hammarström on the photophysics of carbene complexes. She will be...

BioLEC PI Rob Knowles named a 2024 Brown Investigator

BioLEC PI Rob Knowles named a 2024 Brown Investigator

Congratulations to BioLEC PI Rob Knowles, who has been named a 2024 Ross Brown Investigator! The award funds blue-sky, out-of-the-box research for 5 years, and Rob will use it to explore a novel hypothesis on the evolution of homochirality. More details are available...

BioLEC Alternative Careers Panel

BioLEC Alternative Careers Panel

Wondering about your next move? Not sure a career in academia is for you? Find out about opportunities to use your chemistry PhD in a wide range of careers, from publishing to non-profit, consulting to industrial research, teaching and more. BioLEC is delighted to...

The BioLEC team consists of multiple research groups from universities and national laboratories across the United States.