Catalyst Design for Decarbonization Center
Welcome. The Catalyst Design for Decarbonization Center (CD4DC) is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the United States Department of Energy. The central research mission of CD4DC is to discover new catalysts for the decarbonization energy transition and to optimize the key catalytic reactions involved.
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CD4DC in the news
Oct 2025
CD4DC 2025 All-Hands Meeting Highlights Catalyst Innovation and Collaboration in Energy Research
On the same day that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for groundbreaking work on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), the Catalyst Design for Decarbonization Center (CD4DC) gathered for its 2025 All-Hands Meeting on October 8 at the University of Chicago’s…
Sep 2025
New Method Improves the Accuracy of Machine-Learned Potentials for Simulating Catalysts
Aniruddha Seal, Matthew Hennefarth, Professors Laura Gagliardi and Andrew Ferguson, and Professor Michele Parrinello (Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa) and his group have developed a workflow to train machine-learned potentials beyond Kohn-Sham DFT. At its core is WASP - the…
Sep 2025
John S. Anderson Receives ACS Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Anderson of the University of Chicago has been awarded the Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator by the American Chemical Society. This honor recognizes his pioneering work in synthetic inorganic chemistry, where…