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 second round 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 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...

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