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

通过催化实现新技术中心（CENTC）汇集了来自北美14个不同机构的18名研究人员及其化学和化学工程专业的学生。这个团队的重点是发展可持续生产化学品和燃料所需的基础科学。中心的科学家将创造和研究新的反应和催化剂系统，以选择性地切割和形成碳氢键、碳碳键、碳氧键、O-O键和O-H键。将利用所获得的资料为化学工业设计有效、廉价和无害环境的新方法。该中心正在进行范围广泛的项目，包括直接烷烃功能化、生物质选择性去功能化、利用二氧化碳作为原料化学品和水的氧化。中心为学生和博士后研究人员提供了一个协作的培训环境，并包括在许多活动中整合的创新教育。该中心有一个工业附属项目，允许将中心的研究成果直接传达给工业，在那里它们可以被开发用于商业用途。中心的研究重点是基础科学，这些基础科学将支持一系列可持续生产化学品、药品和燃料的新技术，因此具有提高美国竞争力的巨大潜力，并通过提高能源独立性来加强我们的国家安全。通过催化实现新技术中心由华盛顿大学领导，并作为化学创新中心（CCI）计划的一部分获得资助。

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.