CST
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Director(s):
Paul Barbara (8/2009 - 10/2010); Xiaoyang Zhu (11/2010 - 5/2012); Peter Rossky (6/2012 - 7/2014)
Lead Institution:
University of Texas at Austin
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To pursue fundamental research on charge transfer processes that underpin the function of highly promising molecular materials for photovoltaic and electrical energy storage applications.
Research Topics:
solar (photovoltaic), phonons, energy storage (including batteries and capacitors), defects, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, organic semiconductor, metal, oxide, polymer, optoelectronic and metamaterial
INTERFACES: organic/semiconductor, organic/oxide, organic/organic, organic/metal, semiconductor/semiconductor, liquid/solid, solid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, nanocomposites
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, surface science, ultrafast physics, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, mesoscale modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling
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Partner Institutions:
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Minnesota
- Sandia National Laboratories
- University of Texas at Austin