UMD is home to many energy centers dedicated to working across disciplinary boundaries and transforming science research. Affiliated centers include: *Center for Research in Extreme Batteries *Center for Environmental Energy Engineering *Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage *Maryland Transportation Institute *Center for Sustainability in the Built Environment
The Center for Materials Innovation is a multidisciplinary research center that aims to encourage collaboration between University of Maryland faculty members and partner institutions to invent, manufacture, and utilize innovative materials to address society’s most pressing issues, from sustainability and the energy-water nexus, to energy efficiency, and beyond.
Learn MoreThe Center for Research in Extreme Batteries (CREB) aims to foster and accelerate collaborative research in advanced battery materials and technologies and characterization techniques. CREB’s focus is on batteries for extreme performance, environments and applications (for example: defense, space, biomedical applications). Participation in CREB is open to national and defense labs, universities, and industry.
Learn MoreCEEE provides innovative solutions to industry's research and development challenges and cost-effective, timely technology transfer. CEEE has developed a highly flexible and task-oriented consortium structure that emphasizes pre-competitive research. Sponsors include industrial companies and government agencies that pool research funds leveraged by additional support from the University of Maryland.
Learn MoreThe Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES) EFRC is a multi-institutional research center, one of 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers established by the US Department of Energy in 2009. The center studies structures that are precise - each at the scale of tens to hundreds of nanometers and ordered in massive arrays - and that are multifunctional - able to conduct electrons, diffuse and store lithium ions, and form a stable mechanical base. The scale and control of experimentation gives NEES researchers an exclusive gateway to probing fundamental kinetic, thermodynamic, and electrochemical processes.
Learn MoreThe character of natural materials makes them highly desirable: renewable, abundant, safe, biocompatible, locally available, and readily modifiable to diverse applications. Our mission is to explore the natural materials to address technological challenges in energy, environment, and sustainability (EES) such as green buildings, clean water, low-cost energy storage through advances in fundamental science, devices, complex systems and manufacturing.
Learn MoreThe Maryland Tranportation Institute (MTI) will focus on transportation big data, connected and automated transportation, congestion mitigation, freight and logistics, infrastructure planning and policy, transportation safety and security, smart cities and communities, and future mobility systems.
Learn MoreThe Center for SustainabilITY in the Built Environment (CITY@UMD) was established in 2012. The center’s mission is to reimagine the physical infrastructure systems in urban neighborhoods. The center’s education, research, and technology transfer projects focus on analytical tools and devices capable of managing environmental quality at scale.
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