Research Interests

Sustainable energy research, education, and innovation, technological development and implementation of new, alternative forms of sustainable energy. Current areas of research emphasis include:

  • Bio-Fuels
  • Advanced Materials
  • Energy Conversion and Storage
  • Sustainability Science

In addition, there are common elements of Environment, Ethics, Economics, Law and Policy as well as Technology that will be cross cutting themes for the four research thrusts.

Units Involved

Colleges of Engineering, Art and Sciences, Architecture and Design, and Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

Faculty

  • Sandeep Agnihotri, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Craig E. Barnes, Chemistry
  • Eric Boder, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
  • Barry Bruce, BCMB
  • Robert Compton, Chemistry
  • Mark Dadmun, Chemistry
  • Gerd Duscher, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Brian Edwards, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
  • Paul Frymier, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
  • Bin Hu, Materials Science & Engineering
  • David Joy, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology
  • Ramki Kalyanaraman, Materials Science & Engineering
  • David Keffer, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
  • Bamin Khomami, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
  • Cheng-Xian Lin, Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering
  • Jimmy Mays, Chemistry
  • Don Nicholson, Computer Science & Mathematics Division
  • Stephen Paddison, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
  • Dayakar Penumada, Chair of Excellence and Professor
  • Phillip D. Rack, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Claudia Rawn, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Zhili Zhang, Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering

Contact

Bamin Khomami, Professor and DIrector
Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center
Head, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The University of Tennessee
419 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
Knoxville, TN 37996-2200

Phone: (865) 974-2035
Email: bkhomami@utk.edu
Website: http://seerc.utk.edu/