Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame
Research Facilities
Materials Characterization
To support scientific advancements and new or improved sustainable energy technologies and systems, cSEND provides a world-class research facility with state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation to researchers at the University of Notre Dame and other academia and industrial institutions. Funded through the SEI, the Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) provides researchers with modern instrumentation and expertise for solid and liquid material characterization by spectroscopic, thermal, X-ray, BET, and spectrometric analytical methods. It also combines the capabilities for material synthesis and modification and enables in-situ study of the formation of complex actinide materials containing transuranium elements, which is unique in the United States. Future capabilities will include equipment to excel research into areas of chemical transformation and enable the evaluation of photocatalytic properties of new materials.
Materials Simulations
Notre Dame has world-class expertise in classical and quantum mechanical simulations. The materials simulations facility or CoMSEL (Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Laboratory) provides a unique, high quality, cross-college computational research and collaborative space for both scientists and engineers. Funded by the SEI, this facility is charged with developing, managing and applying computational tool sets with principal investigators and providing the environment and the interactions necessary to multiply the impact of the existing, individual research programs.
