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Peter Dahl joined NREL in 2023 to study the mechanism of light-driven reduction of nitrogen gas to ammonia using biohybrid complexes of quantum dots and nitrogenase enzyme. The reduction of nitrogen to ammonia is an energy intensive reaction, which consumes up to 2 % of the global energy supply. By studying mechanisms for activating biological catalysts, such as nitrogenase, with light, Dahl hopes to identify a path toward an efficient alternative for industrial ammonia synthesis.
Research Interests
Biophysical chemistry
Spectroscopy
Electron transfer
Electrochemistry
Density functional theory
Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations
Education/Academic Qualification
Bachelor, Biomedical Physics, Wayne State University
PhD, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
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