
Negative Emissions Science
2020-2023
The accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and in the oceans is a pressing challenge that requires rapid de-carbonization of the global economy. Negative emissions technologies, which remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans for the purposes of sequestration or potential utilization, most likely will be needed to augment other mitigation strategies. The underlying science needed to make negative emissions technologies globally scalable still requires major scientific breakthroughs. Such breakthroughs in Negative Emissions Science (NES) almost certainly will result from multidisciplinary input, including from chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, engineering, and geophysics. This Scialog will challenge early-career scientists in these and related fields to explore together how to advance fundamental science in the design of novel approaches for rapidly removing and utilizing or sequestering greenhouse gases.
Fellows & Facilitators
Fellows
- Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Riverside - Chibueze Amanchukwu
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
University of Chicago - Ashleigh Baber
Chemistry and Biochemistry
James Madison University - Ahmed Badran
Chemistry / Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
Scripps Research Institute - Ananya Renuka Balakrishna
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California - Chris Bartel
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota Twin Cities - Praveen Bollini
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Houston - Fani Boukouvala
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology - Will Bowman
Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Irvine - Nanette Boyle
Chemical & Biological Engineering
Colorado School of Mines - Fikile Brushett
Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Juliana Carneiro
Chemical Engineering
Columbia University - Rebecca Ciez
Mechanical Engineering & Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Purdue University - Robert Coridan
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arkansas - Anindita Das
Chemistry
Southern Methodist University - Mita Dasog
Chemistry
Dalhousie University - Rachel Davidson
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Delaware - Luis De Jesus Baez
Chemistry
SUNY – University at Buffalo - Pratik Dholabhai
Physics and Astronomy
Rochester Institute of Technology - Liang Feng
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Duke University - Ariel Furst
Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Greeshma Gadikota
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University - Betar Gallant
Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Rebecca Gieseking
Chemistry
Brandeis University - Robert Gilliard
Chemistry
University of Virginia - Prashun Gorai
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Colorado School of Mines - Christopher Gorski
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Pennsylvania State University - Matthew Green
Chemical Engineering
Arizona State University - Burcu Gurkan
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Case Western Reserve University - Kelsey Hatzell
Mechanical / Chemical Engineering
Vanderbilt University - Marta Hatzell
Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology - Andrea Hicks
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin – Madison - Caleb Hill
Chemistry
University of Wyoming - Adam Holewinski
Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder - Katherine Hornbostel
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
University of Pittsburgh - Shu Hu
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Yale University - Joshua Jack
Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan - Jimmy Jiang
Chemistry
University of Cincinnati - Feng Jiao
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Delaware - Maisha Kamunde-Devonish
Chemistry
Grinnell College - Dohyung Kim
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania - Katie Knowles
Chemistry
University of Rochester - David Koweek
Oceanography
Ocean Visions Inc. / Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions - David Kwabi
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan - Yuzhang Li
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles - Simona Liguori
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Clarkson University - Feng Lin
Chemistry
Virginia Tech - Zhou Lin
Chemistry
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Li-Chiang Lin
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The Ohio State University - Chong Liu
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles - Tianbiao Liu
Chemistry
Utah State University - Yayuan Liu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Johns Hopkins University - Yuanyue Liu
Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin - Oana Luca
Chemistry
University of Colorado Boulder - Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Southern California - Yuezhi Mao
Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Diego State University - Jarad Mason
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University - Ellen Matson
Chemistry
University of Rochester - Charles McCrory
Chemistry
University of Michigan - Mike McGuirk
Chemistry
Colorado School of Mines - Andrew Medford
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology - Jose Mendoza
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Michigan State University - Phillip Milner
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University - Gary Moore
Molecular Sciences
Arizona State University - Carlos Morales-Guio
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles - Ivan Moreno-Hernandez
Chemistry
Duke University - Eva Nichols
Chemistry
University of British Columbia - Michael Nippe
Chemistry
Texas A&M University, College Station - Oscar Nordness
Earth and Environmental Engineering
Columbia University - Bin Ouyang
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University - Shima Parsa
Physics and Astronomy
Rochester Institute of Technology - Marc Porosoff
Chemical Engineering
University of Rochester - Valentina Prigiobbe
Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering
Stevens institute of Technology - Zhe Qiang
Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Southern Mississippi - Lina Quan
Chemistry
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Douglas Reed
Chemistry
University of Washington - Hang Ren
Chemistry
University of Texas at Austin - Fateme Rezaei
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology - Michael Ross
Chemistry
University of Massachusetts Lowell - Emily Ryan
Mechanical Engineering
Boston University - Rafael Santos
School of Engineering
University of Guelph - Caroline Saouma
Chemistry
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Kristen Schell
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Carleton University - Marcel Schreier
Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin – Madison - Linsey Seitz
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University - Wilson Smith
Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado, Boulder /
Nanoscience Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Benjamin Snyder
Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Wen Song
Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment
University of Texas at Austin - Kyriakos Stylianou
Chemistry
Oregon State University - Xiao Su
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Will Tarpeh
Chemical Engineering
Stanford University - Andrew Teixeira
Chemical Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Jesus Velazquez
Chemistry
University of California, Davis - Venkat Viswanathan
Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University - Haotian Wang
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rice University - Meng Wang
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Pittsburgh - Shuya Wei
Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of New Mexico - Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Chemistry
University of Utah - Anna Wuttig
Chemistry
University of Chicago - Xin Xu
The Polytechnic School
Arizona State University - Jenny Yang
Chemistry
University of California, Irvine - Yuan Yao
School of the Environment
Yale University - Sen Zhang
Chemistry
University of Virginia - Houlong Zhuang
Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy
Arizona State University
Facilitators
- Roger Aines
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Sarbajit Banerjee
Texas A&M University - Joan Brennecke
University of Texas at Austin - Jordi Cabana
University of Illinois Chicago - Luis Campos
Columbia University - Emily Carter
University of California Los Angeles - Nancy Haegel
National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Christopher Jones
Georgia Tech University - Julia King
Cambridge University - Amy Landis
Colorado School of Mines - Jeff Long
University of California Berkeley - Alexandra Navrotsky
Arizona State University - Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park
Columbia University - Joaquín Rodríguez-López
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - George Shields
Furman University - Ellen Stechel
Arizona State University - Aleksandra Vojvodic
University of Pennsylvania - Jennifer Wilcox
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Team Awards
Goal: to to catalyze multidisciplinary research from chemistry, materials science, engineering, and other relevant disciplines to advance fundamental science in the design of novel approaches for rapidly removing and utilizing or sequestering greenhouse gases.
2023 Team Awards
Understanding, Quantifying and Mitigating Adsorbent Degradation: From Fundamental Understanding to Techno-economic Analysis
- Fani Boukouvala
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology 2
Kyriakos Stylianou
Chemistry
Oregon State University 2
Liang Feng
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University 2
ML-ROCKS: Machine Learning Reaction Optimization of Carbonation KineticS
- Rachel Davidson
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Delaware 2
Michael Ross
Chemistry
University of Massachusetts Lowell 2
Wen Song
Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment
University of Texas at Austin 2
Gas Capture by Tuning Electric Fields in Conductive MOFs
- Douglas Reed
Chemistry
University of Washington 3
Eva Nichols
Chemistry
University of British Columbia 3
Xin Xu
The Polytechnic School
Arizona State University 3
Cow Burps to Butanol: Bio-electrocatalytic Valorization of Methane to Butanol
- Michael Ross
Chemistry
University of Massachusetts Lowell 1 -
Ariel Furst
Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
Joshua Jack
Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan 1
Modular Production of Aviation Fuel from Point Source Biogas Via Zoned Joule Heating
- Zhe Qiang
Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Southern Mississippi 2
Marc Porosoff
Chemical Engineering
University of Rochester 2
Yuan Yao
School of the Environment
Yale University 2
Achieving Speed and Scale: Self-Amplifying Adsorbents for Negative Carbon Emissions
- Benjamin Snyder
Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 - Caroline Saouma
Chemistry
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1 - Yuzhang Li
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles 1
Plastic Waste to DAC: A Study of the Chemical and Lifecycle Feasibility of Converting Polyolefin Waste to Aminopolymers for Direct Air Capture
- Rebecca Ciez
Mechanical Engineering & Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Purdue University 2
Michael McGuirk
Chemistry
Colorado School of Mines 1- 1 Funded by RCSA
2 Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
3 Funded by ClimateWorks Foundation
2022 Team Awards
BioDAC: Integrating Enzyme Engineering & Electrochemistry for Sustainable Acrylate Production
- Ahmed Badran
Chemistry / Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
Scripps Research Institute *
Jimmy Jiang
Chemistry
University of Cincinnati *- Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Southern California *
Electro-swing Modulation of Lipophilic Environments for Direct Air Capture of Methane
- Yuanyue Liu
Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin ^
Phillip Milner
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University ^
Marcel Schreier
Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin – Madison ^
Surface Charge-induced CO2 Solvent Regeneration Via Free Volume Manipulation
- Chibueze Amanchukwu
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
University of Chicago *
Yayuan Liu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Johns Hopkins University *
Houlong Zhuang
Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy
Arizona State University ^
Sunlight Driven CO2 Capture and Release
- Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Riverside *
Mita Dasog
Chemistry
Dalhousie University *
Robust Scalable Multifunctional Electrode for CO2 Reduction and C-C Coupling in Seawater
- Will Bowman
Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Irvine †
Jose Mendoza
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Michigan State University †
Hang Ren
Chemistry
University of Texas at Austin †
Triple-intensified Process for Direct Carbon-negative Methanol Synthesis from Biogas
- Anindita Das
Chemistry
Southern Methodist University *
Simona Liguori
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Clarkson University *
Rafael Santos
School of Engineering
University of Guelph *
A Radical Approach to Negative Methane Emissions
- Adam Holewinski
Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder ^
Anna Wuttig
Chemistry
University of Chicago ^- * Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
^ Funded by RCSA
† Funded by ClimateWorks Foundation
2021 Team Awards
Electrocatalytic Activation and Cycling of Moisture-Swing Direct Air Capture Materials
- Matthew Green
Chemical Engineering
Arizona State University †
Gary Moore
School of Molecular Sciences
Arizona State University †
Emily Ryan
Mechanical Engineering
Boston University †
Carbon Dioxide-Methane Coupling with Electric-Field-Polarized Microelectrodes
- Zhou Lin
Chemistry
University of Massachusetts Amherst *
Yayuan Liu
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Johns Hopkins University *
Sen Zhang
Chemistry
University of Virginia *
Photochemical Amine Production from N2 and CO2
- Marta Hatzell
Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology †
Kathryn Knowles
Chemistry
University of Rochester †
Jose Mendoza
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Michigan State University †
Carbon Dioxide Removal from Seawater Driven by a Visible Light-Induced pH Gradient
- David Kwabi
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan †
Michael Nippe
Chemistry
Texas A&M University, College Station †
Novel Membrane Design for Hybrid Ocean Capture and Desalination
- Matthew Green
Chemical Engineering
Arizona State University *
Katherine Hornbostel
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
University of Pittsburgh *
Jenny Yang
Chemistry
University of California Irvine *
Electrified Low-Temperature Process for CO2 Capture and Conversion (e-LT-C3)
- Charles McCrory
Chemistry
University of Michigan †
Carlos Morales-Guio
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles †
CO2 Conversion to Bioplastics via Electrochemical-Bio Synthesis
- Andrea Hicks
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin – Madison *
Chong Liu
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles *
Haotian Wang
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineerin
Rice University *
Electric-Swing Solid State Sorbents for Direct Air Capture of CO2
- Adam Holewinski
Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder *
Katherine Hornbostel
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
University of Pittsburgh †
Yuanyue Liu
Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin *
* Funded by RCSA
† Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2020 Team Awards
Electrifying Humidity-Swing Adsorption for DAC by Modulation of Redox-Polymer Hydration
- Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Southern California †
Burcu Gurkan
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Case Western Reserve University †
Xiao Su
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign †
Using Electrochemistry to Improve Selectivity of Plasma-Assisted CO2 Reduction
- William Bowman
Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Irvine †
Eva Nichols
Chemistry
University of British Columbia †
Robert Coridan
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arkansas †
Integrated Low-Temperature Electrified Process for CO2 Direct Air Capture and Transformation to Solid Carbon
- Kathryn Knowles
Chemistry
University of Rochester *
Carlos Morales-Guio
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles *
Robert Coridan
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arkansas *
Investigation of the Carbonation Dynamics of Synthetic Silicates: Guiding the Development of Net-Negative Production Process and Deployment in Enhanced Rock Weathering
- Rafael Santos
School of Engineering
University of Guelph ††
Pratik Dholabhai
Physics and Astronomy
Rochester Institute of Technology *
Andrea Hicks
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin – Madison *
Bricks from The Ocean: Hybrid Microbial-Electrochemical Mineralization of CO2
- Nanette Boyle
Chemical & Biological Engineering
Colorado School of Mines *
Shu Hu
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Yale University ††
Solar-Augmented Direct Air Capture of Methane Using Methanotrophic Bacteria
- Nanette Boyle
Chemical & Biological Engineering
Colorado School of Mines *
Chong Liu
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles *
Envisioning a Low Carbon Built Environment through Innovative Electrochemical and Chemical Processing of Construction Materials and Enhanced Circular Reuse
- Greeshma Gadikota
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University ††
Venkat Viswanathan
Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University ††
Electrochemically Driven Reactive Capture of CO2 from Air Using Azolium-Carboxylates
- Wilson Smith
Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder *
David Kwabi
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan *
Robert Gilliard
Chemistry
University of Virginia *
* Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
† Funded by RCSA
†† Funded by the Thistledown Foundation
Successes
- Through the collaboration of Cell Press, RCSA and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and curated with iScience Consulting Editor and NES Fellow Marta Hatzell, “Spotlight on Scialog: Negative Emissions Science” contains collaborative, forward-looking perspectives and research articles by a number of Scialog NES participants.
- One NES collaboration aims to reduce cement’s carbon footprint.
Conference Booklets
SPONSORS
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Additional Support