All together now: Experiments with twisted 2D materials catch electrons behaving collectively
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1602006386435{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]By James Urton, UW News[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1602005322374{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]October 6, 2020 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1602005344894{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]Scientists can have ambitious goals: curing disease, exploring distant worlds, clean-energy revolutions. In physics and materials research, some of these ambitious goals are to make ordinary-sounding objects with extraordinary properties: wires that can transport power without any energy loss, or quantum computers that can perform complex calculations that today’s computers cannot achieve. And the emerging workbenches for the experiments that gradually move us toward these goals are 2D materials — sheets of material that are a single layer of atoms thick.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1602005353517{padding-top:...
Designing cutting-edge materials from home
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1598373898336{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"]UW professors Ting Cao and Xiaosong Li bring computational science to the virtual classroom during COVID-19[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1598377715538{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"]August 25, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1598373907152{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"]When Governor Jay Inslee issued the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order to combat the spread of COVID-19 on March 23rd, University of Washington scientists and engineers faced a new challenge: how could they continue to experiment, innovate, and learn while most labs were closed?[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1598373915648{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"]For materials science & engineering (MSE) professor Ting Cao and chemistry professor Xiaosong Li, both Clean Energy Institute (CEI) member faculty, the shift to...
PNNL-UW materials science pioneer James De Yoreo receives U.S. Department of Energy Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]July 30, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has named materials science pioneer James (Jim) De Yoreo a 2020 “Distinguished Scientist Fellow.” De Yoreo is co-director of the joint UW-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry, and Technology (NW IMPACT), and deputy director of the UW-led Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales (CSSAS). De Yoreo is an affiliate professor in both chemistry and materials science & engineering at UW, and is recognized as a UW-PNNL Distinguished Faculty Fellow.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]The DOE recognized De Yoreo for his “transformational discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of...
Matthew Yankowitz wins Army Research Office Young Investigator Award for layered 2D materials
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1600448608935{padding-top: 10px !important;}"]July 9, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1600448636333{padding-top: 10px !important;}"]Originally published by the University of Washington Department of Materials Science & Engineering.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1600450122381{padding-top: 10px !important;}"]Matthew Yankowitz, Washington Research Foundation Innovation Assistant Professor in Clean Energy and assistant professor of materials science & engineering and physics, has received the Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the Army Research Office, an element of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory. The objective of the YIP is to encourage and support young university faculty in research areas relevant to the Army. YIP awards are one of the most prestigious honors bestowed by the Army to...
Yuanyuan Shi & Erica Eggleton win Clean Energy Student Achievement Awards
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text]Shi receives Scientific Achievement Award for advances in machine learning for energy systems; Eggleton receives Outreach & Service Award for outstanding volunteer work in schools and at UW[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text]July 6, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text]Yuanyuan Shi and Erica Eggleton received the Clean Energy Institute’s Student Achievement Awards at CEI’s annual end-of-year seminar, held virtually on May 28, 2020.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Shi, who graduated from UW this June with a Ph.D. in electrical & computer engineering, won the Scientific Achievement Award for her work in machine learning for energy systems. A CEI Graduate Fellow and a member of Baosen Zhang’s research group, Shi worked to develop and optimize...
Solar researchers across country join forces with industry to boost U.S. solar manufacturing
The U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium includes UW, NREL, and solar companies and universities throughout the nation....
Sharing clean energy science and engineering with Washington community colleges
Each summer, community college teachers work with UW faculty to bring new clean energy research to undergraduate labs....
Powering the future of transportation
UW energy storage researchers are working with Nobel laureates to build a better battery for electric vehicles. ...
Collaborating for clean tech
Ted Cohen is a 4th year molecular engineering Ph.D. student, a DIRECT trainee, and a Testbeds user. Learn more about his research on perovskite nanocrystals for luminescent solar concentrators in this MolES Q&A! ...
UW researchers win combined $5.9M from Department of Energy to advance solar technologies
Professor Brian B. Johnson and team will integrate solar photovoltaic systems and energy storage systems into the power grid, while UW spinout BlueDot Photonics will manufacture next-generation perovskite solar cells at the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds. ...
A solar energy puzzle
Doctoral student Emily Rabe loves puzzles, and finds plenty in her chemistry research on solar energy. ...
Energy software entrepreneur joins Washington Clean Energy Testbeds to coach cleantech startups
Scott Case, former chief operating officer of EnergySavvy, an energy efficiency software company that was acquired earlier this year, is the new Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at the Testbeds. ...