Stanford R. Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship Talk: Materials for applications in solar energy conversion, thermoelectrics, batteries, and electronics

The Whittaker-Brooks group aims to address important challenges related to the understanding of the relationships among the composition, structure, electronic structure, and properties of inorganic and organic nanomaterials, as well as their composites. Our efforts are focused on three different directions in the areas of materials chemistry and nanotechnology, i.e., synthetic inorganic-organic chemistry, spectroscopy, and nanofabrication of functional devices. Specifically, our group is driven by two of the greatest challenges of our time –sustainable energy and low cost electronics for daily use applications. We plan to embark in these new endeavors by synthesizing and elucidating the functional properties of well-defined and high-quality materials for applications in photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries, spintronics, and electronics. In this talk, we will discuss our recent findings toward generating practical structure-property-function relationships in nanostructured materials for energy conversion and storage.