Nanoscale Materials and Architectures for Energy Conversion

Technical Report · Wed May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1171604· OSTI ID:1171604

Grulke, Eric A. ^[1]; Sunkara, Mahendra K. ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)
2. University of Louisville, KY (United States)

The Kentucky EPSCoR Program supported an inter-university, multidisciplinary energy-related research cluster studying nanomaterials for converting solar radiation and residual thermal energy to electrical energy and hydrogen. It created a collaborative center of excellence based on research expertise in nanomaterials, architectures, and their synthesis. The project strengthened and improved the collaboration between the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and NREL. The cluster hired a new faculty member for ultra-fast transient spectroscopy, and enabled the mentoring of one research scientist, two postdoctoral scholars and ten graduate students. Work was accomplished with three focused cluster projects: organic and photoelectrochemical solar cells, solar fuels, and thermionic energy conversion.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-07ER46375
• OSTI ID: 1171604
• Report Number(s): final report
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
08 HYDROGEN
14 SOLAR ENERGY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
42 ENGINEERING
nanoscale materials
architectures
energy conversion
thermionic
photoelectrochemical solar cells