Five CEI faculty among world’s most influential researchers
Professors Guozhong Cao, Jiun-Haw Chu, professor emeritus Alex K-Y. Jen, Jun Liu, and Xiaodong Xu are among the most influential in the world, according to the annual Highly Cited Researchers list published by the Web of Science Group. The list identifies researchers that produced multiple publications in the top 1% of citations for their field and year of publication over the past decade — this year’s edition covers the time period from 2008 through 2018. ...
Chemistry on deck and in the classroom
CEI Education & Training Fellow Erin Jedlicka has led visits to more than 50 schools, libraries, and science fairs around Washington state this year. A U.S. Navy veteran, she is now a member of David Ginger’s lab group, where she is researching materials for next-generation solar panels. ...
Lilo Pozzo recognized for outstanding leadership in clean energy education
Lilo Pozzo, the Weyerhaeuser Endowed Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at UW, was recognized by the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Initiative (C3E) for outstanding leadership in education. Pozzo was one of eight honorees at C3E’s annual Women in Clean Energy Symposium. ...
UW solar researcher named to Forbes 30 Under 30: Energy list
Dr. Daniel Kroupa, WRF Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow in Clean Energy, has been named to the Forbes “30 Under 30: Energy” list for 2019. His research on perovskite thin films could create an efficiency breakthrough for solar photovoltaics when integrated with silicon panels. ...
Revolutionary printer for sustainable electronics comes to Washington Clean Energy Testbeds
JCDREAM has awarded $631K to Professor J. Devin MacKenzie and the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds to purchase and install an ultra-high-resolution electronics printer developed in Japan. MacKenzie's group will use the printer to develop sustainable transparent conductive electrodes for flexible thin-film solar cells, displays and touch screens. ...
Three clean energy postdoctoral fellows awarded Mistletoe Research Fellowships
Chemistry postdocs Max Friedfeld, Daniel Kroupa and Jian Wang have been awarded Mistletoe Research Fellowships for the 2018-19 academic year. They will each receive a $10,000 Unfettered Research Grant that can be applied to almost any university-approved research-related activity. ...
Clean energy solutions for public health in Puerto Rico
Chemical engineering professor Lilo Pozzo and a group of CEI researchers and public health scientists traveled to Jayuya, Puerto Rico this spring as part of a long-term field study on the impact of power loss on public health. ...
CEI students spearhead initiative for collaborations between UW and Africa’s cleantech researchers
Sarah Holliday, Griffin Ruehl, and Breena Sperry are building connections with Africa's materials science and solar communities. ...
University of Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory team up to make the materials of tomorrow
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]By James Urton January 31, 2018[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Many innovations of 21st century life, from touch screens and electric cars to fiber-optics and implantable devices, grew out of research on new materials. This impact of materials science on today’s world has prompted two of the leading research institutions in the Pacific Northwest to join forces to research and develop new materials that will significantly influence tomorrow’s world.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]With this eye toward the future, the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington announced the creation of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology — or NW IMPACT — a joint research endeavor to power discoveries and...
CEI Research Highlights: January 2018
Research updates from the labs of Profs. Daniel Kirschen, Karl Böhringer, Charles T. Campbell, and Xiaodong Xu. Topics include energy storage planning and markets, self-cleaning solar panels, modeling chemical potential in nanoparticles, and the optoelectronic properties of 2-dimensional magnets. ...
CEI Research on Perovskite Solar Cells Featured in Science
Engineering a better solar cell: UW research collaboration with University of Oxford pinpoints defects in popular perovskites. ...
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