New Materials for Sustainable Energy Professor David S. Sholl
holds the Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair and is the GRA
Eminent Scholar for Energy Sustainability. His research vision
is to develop new materials and processes that contribute to
sustainable energy use on relevant global scales: gigawatts of
energy and gigatons of reductions in carbon emissions. Sholl’s
research uses computational materials modeling to develop new
materials for energy storage and generation. The aim of using
theoretical tools in this area is to accelerate experimental
progress on problems where the search space of materials
contains thousands or millions of possibilities. By working with
a wide range of experimental partners in academia and industry,
the Sholl research group is helping to develop practical
solutions to the immense energy-related challenges that will
confront our global society for decades to come. His group has
already developed quantitatively accurate computational methods
that predict the suitability of mill