Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis (CENTC) Phase II Renewal

通过催化实现新技术中心，或称CENTC，将北美14个不同机构的18名化学和化学工程研究人员及其学生聚集在一起。该团队的重点是发展化学品和燃料可持续生产所需的基础科学。CENTC的科学家将创建和研究新的反应和催化剂系统，以选择性地裂解和形成C-H、C-C、C-O、O-O和O-H键。所获得的信息将被用来为化学工业设计高效、廉价和对环境无害的新方法。CENTC正在开展广泛的项目，包括直接烷烃官能化、生物质选择性去功能化、二氧化碳作为原料化学品的利用和水的氧化。CENTC为学生和博士后研究人员提供合作培训环境，并将创新教育纳入许多活动。该中心有一个工业分支机构计划，允许将CENTC的研究成果直接传达给行业，在那里这些研究成果可以被开发用于商业用途。中心的研究集中在基础科学上，这些科学将为化学品、药品和燃料的可持续生产提供一系列新技术，从而具有通过提高能源独立性来提高美国竞争力和增强国家安全的巨大潜力。通过催化实现新技术的中心由华盛顿大学领导，并作为化学创新中心(CCI)计划的一部分得到资助。

The Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis, or CENTC, brings together a group of 18 investigators and their students in chemistry and chemical engineering at 14 different institutions across North America. The focus of this team is to develop fundamental science needed for the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels. CENTC scientists will create and investigate new reactions and catalyst systems for the selective cleavage and formation of C-H, C-C, C-O, O-O and O-H bonds. The information gained will be exploited to devise new methodologies for the chemical industry that are efficient, inexpensive and environmentally benign. A broad scope of projects is being pursued in CENTC including direct alkane functionalization, selective defunctionalization of biomass, utilization of carbon dioxide as a feedstock chemical, and the oxidation of water.CENTC offers a collaborative training environment for students and postdoctoral researchers, and includes education in innovation integrated throughout many activities. The center has an industrial affiliates program that allows for direct communication of CENTC research results to industry where they can be developed for commercial use. Center research is focused on the basic science that will underpin a range of new technologies for sustainable production of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fuels and thus have significant potential to increase US competitiveness and to enhance our national security through an increase in energy independence.The Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis is led by the University of Washington and is funded as part of the Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) program.