Joel – Materials Science & Engineering

Greener Days Ahead for Carbon Fuels by Theresa Duque December 17, 2018 MSE graduate student Yanwei Lum and adjunct professor Joel Ager have discovered that a simple copper-based catalyst can be used to electrochemically convert carbon dioxide selectively to commodity chemicals such as ethylene and ethanol. Selective production of the desired product reduces the need…

eCO2EP Project Leaders Publish a Perspective on the Electrochemical Synthesis of Bulk Intermediates from Carbon Dioxide by Daisy Hernandez May 18 , 2018 In the 18th of May issue of Science, the Professors Joel Ager (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley) and Alexei Lapkin (Department of…