The Powering the Planet Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI Solar) focuses on one of the outstanding problems in 21st Century science – the efficient and economical conversion of solar energy into stored chemical fuels. Through this CCI, the NSF has established a partnership with the scientific community to develop the fundamental enabling chemistry that will ultimately deliver clean fuels produced from the sun. (Project Overview)
Powering the Planet
CCI Happenings
CCI at UW-Madison enriches undergrad research
 | Riviam Perez-Rodriguez (part of the SROP program) and Simon Golde are performing undergraduate summer research projects under the mentorship of Prof. Shannon S. Stahl and postdoc James Gerken on molecular ruthenium and cobalt complexes for water oxidation catalysis. |
Mike Rose to join CCI Solar in July
 | Mike Rose (Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz) will join the CCI Solar Research team at Caltech to study homogeneous H2 formation catalysts. |
SHArK Sighting in Pasadena
 | CCI Researchers have teamed with teachers from Muir, Blair, and Polytechnic schools to recruit Pasadena high schoolers into the CCI Solar Army with SHArK Modules for the 2009-10 academic year. |
New Sustainability Institute at Caltech
 | Caltech president Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau announces $90 Million Resnick Sustainability Institute focused on Energy Technologies |
