Comprehensive List
With ideas that are so new, fundamental discovery is often the first step needed in research. As part of its strategy to build a diverse portfolio of innovative technologies, GCEP provides up to $100,000 in funding for research activities of an exploratory nature that test the feasibility and application of potential step-out ideas. During a one-year performance period, these activities focus on novel approaches and innovative concepts associated with technologies that lead to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale. To date, GCEP has funded 35 exploratory efforts. Based on initial results, close to a third of these have successfully gone on to be funded as three-year GCEP research programs, including some that set out to develop new transparent electrodes for photovoltaics, produce hydrogen from glucose in a cell-free manner and integrate coal energy conversion with aquifer-based carbon sequestration.
This year, GCEP awarded four exploratory research grants to Stanford faculty for promising proposals in the areas of transportation, energy storage, artificial photosynthesis and advanced combustion.
- 2014
- Enhancing Hydride Thermodynamics Through Nanostructuring
- New Pathways Towards High Performance Transparent Conductive Oxides
- Gas Molecules as the Next-Generation Thermoelectric: Extracting Electricity from Hot Gas with No Moving Parts
- 2013
- 2012
- Wireless Power Transfer to Moving Vehicles
- Continuous Passive-Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Geologic Sequestration Projects
- Electrochemical Dinitrogen Fixation
- Real-Time Monitoring at CO2 Sequestration Sites: Fast Data Assimilation and Risk Evaluation
- Solid-state Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission for Solar Energy Conversion
- CO2 Capture Using Carbon-based Sorbents
- 2011
- Axially Graded Index Lens (AGILE) as a Non-tracking Solar Concentrator
- Efficient Cell-Free Hydrogen Production from Glucose: Extension
- Manufacturable Nanostructured Solar Cells with Efficient Light Trapping and Charge Carrier Collection
- Towards Architecturally Engineered, Ultra-High Performance Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Scalable Manufacturing Methods
- 2010
- Carbon-ion Conducting Thin Film Membranes Towards Efficient CO2 Separation
- Efficient Cell-Free Hydrogen Production from Glucose
- Fundamental Studies of Plasma Air Separation
- Geological Sequestration of CO2 – An Exploratory Study of the Mechanisms and Kinetics of CO2 Reaction with Mg-Silicates
- High Capacity Molecular Hydrogen Storage in Novel Crystalline Solids
- Multijunction Nanowire Solar Cells for Inexpensive and Highly Efficient Photoelectricity: Enabling Methods
- 2009
- Development of an Immobilized Enzyme System for Lignocellulosic Biomass Saccharification
- Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation to Dioxygen in Molecular PdII/IV Coordination Environment
- Nanostructured MoS2 and WS2 for the Solar Production of Hydrogen
- Spectroscopic Characterization of Multi-Exciton Generation Efficiency in Nano-Structured Materials
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- Advanced Thermionic Energy Converters
- Integration of Coal Energy Conversion with Aquifer-Based Carbon Sequestration (Brigham Young University)
- Integration of Coal Energy Conversion with Aquifer-Based Carbon Sequestration (Stanford University)
- Nanotube Networks as Transparent Electrodes for Solar Cells