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Sargent Group Renewable Fuels unites chemistry, physics, and engineering within eight laboratories at the University of Toronto for developing renewable fuels. The company also works on x-ray diffraction (XRD), Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Service, and the Alliance for AI-Accelerated Materials Discovery (A3MD).
With the emergence of abundant renewable electricity, many industries are turning to electrification to reduce carbon intensity. Sargent develops electrocatalytic technology to synthesize chemical fuels and feedstocks, along with next-generation solar technologies with their industry partners.
The Sargent team works to create novel ways to harvest energy, exploring the latest technologies with perovskites, colloidal quantum dots, and luminescent solar concentrators. This work significantly increases these technologies’ efficiencies, contributing to clean, renewable, flexible, and affordable solar energy.
Sargent combines the efforts of synthetic chemists, physicists, and engineers to design new light-emitting materials such as colloidal quantum dots and low-dimensional semiconductors.
The company seeks to discover new semiconducting materials for use in on-chip signal processing. The team unites high-throughput computational and experimental frameworks to screen new candidate materials, with an emphasis on solution-processability and stability.
The rational design of new materials for optoelectronic applications benefits greatly from an initial computational screening of a large number of candidates using machine learning. Sargent combines the efforts of material computationalists and synthetic chemists to identify the best material candidates for optoelectronic applications.
