Heap Leach Innovation Initiative

Computing Properties of Salt Water Solutions found in Batteries and Industrial Wastes

The Clark laboratory uses computer simulations to model properties solutions and materials. Of particular interest are salt water solutions that are being proposed as new “green” battery electrolytes.

Self-Driving Chemistry Laboratories: Chemical Discoveries Powered by Robotics

This SRI stream introduces students to the intersection of chemistry, materials science, and automation. Students will use state-of-the-art robotic platforms to rapidly fabricate thin films of organic and hybrid semiconductor materials and characterize their optical, electrical, and structural properties.

Breaking and Making Bonds

Our group is focused on measuring thermodynamic information although we obtain kinetic and often dynamic information about chemical reactions as well. Using an instrument called a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer (GIBMS)/we examine how reactions of cations and molecules change as a function of the available kinetic (sometimes electronic) energy.