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Klaus Lackner鈥檚 work focuses on closing the carbon cycle by capturing carbon dioxide from the air through the use of 鈥渕echanical trees.鈥� His device is currently being commercialized. 

Lackner鈥檚 other research interests include carbon sequestration, carbon foot-printing, innovative energy and infrastructure systems and their scaling properties, the role of automation, robotics and mass-manufacturing in downscaling infrastructure systems, and energy and environmental policy. 

Lackner, director of ASU鈥檚 Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, was the first person (in 1999) to suggest artificial capture of carbon dioxide from air as a way of reducing atmospheric carbon and lessening global warming.

Lackner is a professor at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he was recognized for contributing to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the IPCC. His interest in self-replicating machine systems has been recognized by Discover Magazine as one of seven ideas that could change the world. 

Joaquín Rodríguez-López is a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research group combines interests in electroanalytical chemistry and energy materials by developing chemically sensitive methods for elucidating the chemistry of batteries, fuel cell materials, electrolyzers, sensors, CO2 capture devices, and many other electrochemical technologies. Recognition to Joaquin’s work has come through awards such as the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry by the International Society of Electrochemistry (2021), The Arthur Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist by the ACS DAC (2020), the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award (2017), a Toyota-Electrochemical Society Young Investigator Fellowship (2017), and the Sloan Research Fellowship (2016) amongst other awards. His outreach and education have earned him the School of Chemical Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award (2023) and the East Central Illinois ACS Chapter Distinguished Service Award (2016). His work has also been highlighted in the media by The Analytical Scientist as a 40-under-40 investigator (2022) and by Science News 10 Scientists to Watch (2018). Rodríguez-López is a recognized leader in electroanalysis, summing over 120 invited national and international presentations, over 110 publications and book chapters, leadership in large scale energy initiatives, and a thriving electrochemical program that gives back through educational activities such as his staple “Electrochemistry Bootcamp,” which teaches laboratory skills to broad audiences. 
 
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