From highly efficient automobiles to efficient light bulbs to motion-sensing light switches, more efficient devices and reduction in waste can contribute as much toward a sustainable energy future as discovery of new energy sources. Research carried out at the University of Illinois is aimed at both improving efficiency of energy-consuming devices as well as conservation of energy by reducing waste.
Areas of Research Focus
Illinois researchers are leading the way on saving energy and resources — now and in the future.
Specific projects include:
- Design and operation of motors.
- Design of a high-speed, high-frequency air-core machine.
- MEMS and microelectronics for motor and energy applications.
- Progress toward more efficient wind farms.
- Fast modeling of solar costs and sensitivity.
- Dynamic energy management needs in energy-efficient buildings imposed by stochastic solar resources.
- Applied fluid mechanics principles for efficient wind power harvesting.
- Differential processing for improvements in solar array energy harvest.
- Induction motor drive design based on drive-cycle energy minimization.
- Energy and water efficiency in residential homes.
- Photoconversion efficiency of perovskite solar cell materials.
- High-efficiency III-V solar cells and thin-film inorganic solar cells.
- Visible light emitting diodes (LEDs) and thin-film flexible LEDs.
- Wind energy and environment.
Researchers
![James Allison](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/allisonES.jpg)
![Phillip Ansell](/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ansell-ES.png)
Phillip Ansell
Electrical and chemical engineering; materials science
![Can Bayram](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bayram1ES.jpg)
![Jennifer Bernhard](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bernhard2ES.jpg)
![Leonardo P. Chamorro](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/chamorro2ES.jpg)
Leonardo P. Chamorro
Fluid mechanics and thermal sciences
![Nora El-Gohary](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/elgohary1ES.jpg)
![Alan Hansen](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/hansenES.jpg)
![Kiruba Haran](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/haranES.jpg)
![Philip Krein](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/kreinES.jpg)
![Waltraud M. Kriven](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/krivenES.jpg)
Waltraud M. Kriven
Mechanical properties and materials
![Minjoo Lawrence Lee](/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/MinjooLeeES.jpg)
![Xiuling Li](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/liES.jpg)
![Bruce Elliott-Litchfield](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/litchfieldES.jpg)
![Yongqi Lu](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/LuES.jpg)
![Nenad Miljkovic](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/milijkovicnewES.jpg)
Nenad Miljkovic
Fluid mechanics and thermal sciences
![Ralph Nuzzo](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/nuzzoES.jpg)
![Kevin O'Brien](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OBrien2ES.jpg)
Kevin O'Brien
Traditional and alternative energies
![Carlos Pantano-Rubino](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pantanorubinoES.jpg)
Carlos Pantano-Rubino
Fluid dynamics and thermal sciences
![Nandakishore Rajagopalan](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rajagopalanES.jpg)
![Tom Rauchfuss](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rauchfuss2ES.jpg)
![Todd Rusk](/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Rusk-ES.jpg)
![Lance Schideman](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/schidemanES.jpg)
![André Schleife](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/schleifeES.jpg)
![John Scott](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/scottES.jpg)
John Scott
Analytical chemistry and biofuels
![Edmund Seebauer](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/seebauerES.jpg)
![Ashlynn Stillwell](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/stillwellES.jpg)
![Rizwan Uddin](/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/uddinES.jpg)
![Xinlei Wang](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wangES.jpg)
![Scott Willenbrock](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/willenbrockES.jpg)
ILLINOIS RESEARCH CENTERS
- Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC)
- Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC)
- Center for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS)
- Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability (EWES) Program
- Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromagnetics (CEME)
- Illinois Center for Smarter Electric Grid (ICSEG)
- International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER)
- Light Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI-EFRC)
- Power and Energy Systems Research Area in ECE Department
- Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)
ONGOING GRANTS & GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
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