Behind Scenes of $3.7 Million Hydrogen Energy ‘Earthshot’ at UVA

Commonwealth Professor of Chemistry T. Brent Gunnoe, a co-investigator on the project, agreed.“If you can produce inexpensive hydrogen using solar energy, it opens the door to paradigm shift for energy production and use,” Gunnoe said. “It really opens up an enormous range of options, including both energy and large-scale chemical production that is necessary for modern society.”Zhang and Gunnoe will partner with two other faculty members in the Chemistry Department: Charles Machan, an associate professor of chemistry, and Huiyuan Zhu, a newly hired assistant professor of chemistry.The professors will be assisted by undergraduate and graduate students on the effort.The University will also team up with co-investigators from Brookhaven National Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology, Columbia University and the University of Delaware to work on separate but related…

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