The National Science Foundation has awarded Prof. Miyake, New Iridium’s co-founder, a three-year, $1.8 million grant to launch the Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis, which will design chemical manufacturing processes harnessing light energy and utilizing readily-available materials as catalysts.
Miyake will serve as the director and lead a multidisciplinary team of 12 other researchers from CSU, the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Wisconsin, University of Northern Colorado, Northeastern University, Metropolitan State University Denver and New Iridium.
This team was one of three selected to receive funding from the NSF Centers for Chemical Innovation. One will later be selected for a five-year, $20 million grant to further their research.
