Scripps Energy & Materials Center
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Jupiter, Florida 33458 USA
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| Established | 2007 |
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| Address | 130 Scripps Way Jupiter, Florida 33458 USA |
| Location | TSRI Jupiter, Florida Campus |
| Website | www |
The Scripps Energy & Materials Center (SEMC) is an American research center that focuses on research in the basic energy and materials sciences.[1] Located in Jupiter, Florida, the center has scientists, graduate students, and administrative staff. The SEMC is a part of the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), one of the largest non-profit research institutes in the world.
TSRI was founded as the Scripps Metabolic Clinic in 1924 by the philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps in La Jolla, California. The Scripps Metabolic Clinic eventually evolved into the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. In 1991, the Scripps Clinic and the Research Foundation became separate corporations, and the Scripps Research Institute was founded. In 1989, TSRI established a graduate program. A second campus was opened in Jupiter, Florida in 2005. In 2007, TSRI president Richard Lerner hired internationally renowned chemist Roy A. Periana to lead what would become the Scripps Energy & Materials Center.[2] The goal was to expand from biomedical research to examining large-scale human problems, including disease, access of future raw materials from natural resources, and the manipulation and storage of energy from renewable resources.[3]
Facilities
The Scripps Energy & Materials Center is located on the Scripps Research Institute campus in Jupiter, Florida. The campus occupies 30 acres (120,000 m2) next to the adjacent John D. MacArthur campus of Florida Atlantic University and Max Planck Florida Institute in Palm Beach County, Florida. SEMC scientists operate in the 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m2) research facilities located among approximately 450 faculty, staff, and students that study and work at the campus.[4]
Leadership
The current director of SEMC is Prof. Roy A. Periana, Ph.D. Periana is an internationally recognized chemist in the fields of homogeneous catalysis and CH activation. His previous work has involved the development of several catalytic systems that convert methane to methanol in high yields at modest temperatures.[5][6] He has also developed chemistry that oxidatively couples methane to acetic acid in a one pot reaction using a palladium catalyst, earning multiple awards. [7]
