President Obama Visits MIT EFRC
President Obama spoke with Marc Baldo, director of the Center for Excitonics, and EFRC member Vladimir Bulovic about their clean energy research during his visit to MIT.
View ArticleAssociated Press Reports On The SNL EFRC
Sandia wants to improve the world's lighting by the Associated Press highlights the work of the Sandia National Laboratories EFRC for Solid State Lighting Science directed by Jerry Simmons. The story...
View ArticleNotre Dame EFRC featured during nationally televised football half-time show
NBC aired a video feature of the EFRC Materials Science of Actinides, directed by Peter Burns at Notre Dame, during the half-time of the November 21, 2009 Notre Dame football game.
View ArticleNPR's Science Friday discussed lighting economics with Sandia National...
Jerry Simmons, director of the EFRC for Solid-State Lighting Science at Sandia National Laboratory, discussed the economics of LED lighting on the September 10th edition of NPR's Science Friday. The...
View ArticleMay 2011 EFRC Newsletter
The 1rst edition of Frontiers in Energy Research, the EFRC Newsletter created by an editorial board of early career EFRC members, was published online in May 2011.
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: Scientists Create World’s Smallest Battery
Effort yields insights that could improve battery performance. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by Nanostructures for Electrical...
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: Trapping the Light Fantastic
New solar cell design uses advanced optics and nanotechnology to maximize performance and minimize cost. Discovery moves from lab bench to initial commercial scale-up inside a year. This work, featured...
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: Beating Nature at her Own Game?
New catalyst speeds conversion of electricity to hydrogen fuel. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by the Center for Molecular...
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: Peering into a Quantum Well
Supercomputer simulation illuminates mysterious "droop" in solid-state lighting. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by the Center for...
View ArticleSeptember 2011 EFRC Newsletter
The 2nd edition of Frontiers in Energy Research, the EFRC Newsletter created by an editorial board of early career EFRC members, was published online in September 2011.
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: More Heat than Light?
Breakthrough solar cell harvests electricity from the sun's thermal energy. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by the Solid-State...
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: Beyond the Transistor
EFRC researchers fabricate a novel device for channeling light. This work, featured in the Office of Science's Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by Light-Material Interactions in...
View ArticleJanuary 2012 EFRC Newsletter
The 3rd edition of Frontiers in Energy Research, the EFRC Newsletter created by an editorial board of early career EFRC members, was published online in January 2012.
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: A Step Toward Artificial Photosynthesis
EFRC researchers construct an artificial version of a bacterium's light-absorbing "antenna." This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by the...
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: Enhancing the Energy Harvest
EFRC researchers fashion solar cells with greater than 100% "Quantum Efficiency." This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by the Center for...
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: Mimicking Nature Backwards and Forwards
Using biology as their blueprint, EFRC researchers devise a reversible reaction for hydrogen energy storage. This work, featured in the Office of Science's Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was...
View ArticleApril 2012 EFRC Newsletter
The 4th edition of Frontiers in Energy Research, the EFRC Newsletter created by an editorial board of early career EFRC members, was published online on April 6, 2012.
View ArticleStories of Discovery & Innovation: A Nanoscale "Tune-Up" for Fuel Cells
Using sophisticated techniques, EFRC researchers are observing, at the molecular level, how hydrogen fuel cells degrade. This work, featured in the Office of Science's Stories of Discovery &...
View ArticleJuly 2012 EFRC Newsletter
The 5th edition of Frontiers in Energy Research , the EFRC Newsletter created by an editorial board of early career EFRC members, was published online on July 11, 2012.
View ArticleStories of Discovery and Innovation: Could Cheaper Gasoline be "in the Cards"?
EFRC researchers develop ingenious house-of-card structures to improve catalyst performance. This work, featured in the Office of Science's Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by the...
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