University at Buffalo

It offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and nearly 300 graduate and professional programs, and is a member of the Association of American Universities. Its research areas include engineering, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors and energy-efficient microelectronics, and its RENEW Institute coordinates university-wide work on energy, environment and water.

UB is based in Buffalo, New York. In battery research, an Innovation Hub project in its Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has studied silicon-carbon nanostructures for lithium-ion battery anodes, aiming at low-cost manufacturing and higher-capacity batteries.