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Clean Green IGERT Newsletter Volume 3
Clean Green IGERT Newsletter Volume 3, December 21, 2011. Highlights from the Clean Energy for Green Industry Traineeship for Graduate Studies at UCLA.
Features:
Outreach: The EnGen Roadshow
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This study aims to understand the role of light transfer in triglyceride fatty-acid (TG-FA) cell…
A simple, scalable method for fabricating fouling-resistant ultrafiltration membranes is described….
This paper reports accurate measurements of the radiation characteristics and optical properties…
Glycolysis, or its variations, is a fundamental metabolic pathway in life that functions in almost…
Students from University of California, Los Angeles who are part of an energy research project are…
By changing the way certain organisms process sugar, UCLA researchers have shown how to produce more…
Glycolysis, or its variations, is a fundamental metabolic pathway in life that functions in almost…
Electro-active switchable ultrafiltration membranes are of great interest due to the possibility…
The emergence of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) has led to the development of a large number…
Block copolymer templating of inorganic materials is a robust method for the production of nanoporous…
Selective-area growth of III-V nanopillars (NPs) is used to demonstrate near-infrared emitters that…
We investigate the effects of in-situ passivation on the electrical transport of InAs nanopillars…
As part of CGI’s outreach efforts, we visit high schools with the EnGen Roadshow. Clean Energy…
Self-published ebook by the Clean Energy for Green Industry IGERT (CGI). Covers a variety of topics…
Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and sugar cane, the rural residents…
A group of students from the University of California in the United States is in the country to assess…
A group of students from the University of California in the United States is in the country to assess…
James C. Liao, UCLA’s Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Professor and chair of the Chemical and Biomolecular…
A groundbreaking membrane material developed at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and…
Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers…
We know that electronics drive enormous efficiency gains on the grid. After all, our smartphones…
This image, titled “Tetraaniline in Full Bloom,” won first place in the Materials Research Society’s…
CGI trainee Alan Farrell served as one of the UCLA delegates to Washington DC for “UC Day in DC”,…
Several UC graduate students offered input on key policy issues such as conservation and energy use…
OCTOBER 25th, 5pm
EXHIBITION + North | South mixer
CNSI Art | Sci gallery
Rita Blaik — Art | Sci…
In the last decade, a rising number of firms have adopted voluntary international environmental management…
Visibly transparent photovoltaic devices can open photovoltaic applications in many areas, such as…
Bucking the idea that environmentalism hurts economic performance, a new UCLA-led study has found…
UCLA Professor Rajit Gadh grew up in India and says blackouts were fairly regular, especially in…
UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows…
UCLA MAE Associate Professor Laurent Pilon’s PhD student Razmig Kandilian was awarded the Chateaubriand…
Announcement
Omar Asensio, a National Science Foundation (NSF) IGERT trainee at the University of…
NSF-IGERT Clean Energy for Green Industry (CGI) graduate fellowship program at UCLA and the California…
Opinions on environmental and socio-economic issues relating to energy or what I like to call green…
We introduce a simple and compact fuel-cell architecture consisting of only solid channels and demonstrate…
Graphene-based non-volatile memory devices composed of a single-layer graphene channel and an Al2O3/HfOx/Al2O3…
Ultrafast spin transfer torque (STT) switching in an in-plane MgO magnetic tunnel junction with 50…
Topological insulators (TIs) are extraordinary materials that possess massless, Dirac-like topological…
Scanning tunneling spectroscopic studies of Bi2Se3 epitaxial films on Si (111) substrates reveal…
We propose an optoelectronic model to investigate polymer solar cells with plasmonic nanoparticles….
Exploring exciting and exotic physics, scientists are pursuing practical device applications for…
We report a direct observation of surface dominated conduction in an intrinsic Bi2Se3 thin film with…
The spin torque switching behavior of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions consisting of a CoFeB…
We have fabricated a metallic nanomesh using nanosphere lithography and metal evaporation. The metallic…
This paper reports the temperature dependent cross-plane thermal conductivity of pure silica zeolite…
Waste heat can be directly converted into electrical energy by performing the Olsen cycle on pyroelectric…
This paper aims to clarify the intrinsic limitations of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)…
This paper aims to develop a model for simulating the electric double layer dynamics in CV measurements…
Prof. Laurent Pilon has contributed to 2 chapters in “Handbook of Hydrogen Energy”.
L. Pilon and…
Chapter 16, “Foams in Glass Manufacturing”, written by Prof. Laurent Pilon.
Pilon, L. (2012) Foams…
Recent progress in the development of polymer solar cells has improved power-conversion efficiencies…
Tandem solar cells provide an effective way to harvest a broader spectrum of solar radiation by combining…
simple method is demonstrated to improve the film-forming properties and air stability of a conjugated…
High power conversion efficiency of over 6.0% is achieved from a squaraine compound from co-deposited…
An MoO3 film spin-coated from a solution prepared by an extremely facile and cost-effective synthetic…
Indium phosphide/indium arsenide phosphide core–shell nanopillars have been prepared by the vapor–liquid–solid…
Ultrafast relaxation dynamics of photogenerated carriers in nanostructure based saturable absorber…
InAs quantum dot clusters (QDCs), which consist of three closely spaced QDs, are formed on nano-facets…
Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program Final Project Report, November 2011.
Prepared for:…
PortTechLA, a public/private non-profit technology center and business incubator operated by a coalition…
Background
The model bacterium Clostridium cellulolyticum efficiently degrades crystalline cellulose…
Nature uses four methods of carbon chain elongation for the production of 2-ketoacids, fatty acids,…
PTEN-controlled PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway represents one of the most deregulated signaling pathways in…
Background
Rhodopseudomonas palustris (R. palustris) is a purple non-sulfur anoxygenic phototrophic…
Previous mathematical modeling efforts have made significant contributions to the development of…
Environmental concerns and an increasing global energy demand have spurred scientific research and…
It’s dorm against dorm on the Hill this month as UCLA students compete to see which residence hall…
Polyaniline nanofibers. Conducting polymers. Chemical sensors. Are your palms getting clammy yet?…
Award-winning UCLA researchers and graduate students recently took scientific principles out of their…
The American Chemical Society has honored Richard B. Kaner with the 2012 ACS Award in the Chemistry…
Although electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, charge…
Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular…
One of the major challenges in using electrical energy is the efficiency in its storage. Current…
The increasing interest in energy storage for the grid can be attributed to multiple factors, including…
A new method for making transparent electrodes in LCD screens could replace more expensive indium…
On October 13th UCLA and the Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles, led by SBC Board Member…
UCLA’s Smart Grid Energy Research Center is testing ways to use solar innovatively and economically….
Q&A with Dr. Rajit Gadh: Founding Director of the UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center.
Questions…
A new “bioreactor” could store electricity as liquid fuel with the help of a genetically engineered…
While conservation of ATP is often a desirable trait for microbial production of chemicals, we demonstrate…
Higher alcohols such as isobutanol possess several physical characteristics that make them attractive…
Production of chemicals and fuels directly from CO2 is an attractive approach to solving the energy…
An Escherichia coli strain was engineered to synthesize 1-hexanol from glucose by extending the coenzyme…
Promising approaches to produce higher alcohols, e.g., isobutanol, using Escherichia coli have been…
Engineering a low-cost graphene-based electronic device has proven difficult to accomplish via a…
Blue light-emitting oligotriphenylene nanofibers are synthesized by oxidizing triphenylene using…
Despite the many attractive properties of conjugated polymers, their practical applications are often…
To study the effects of hydrocarbon precursor gases, graphene is grown by chemical vapor deposition…
Density-functional calculations of the potential-energy surface for tracer Ga and In adatoms above…
We investigate the transport properties in p-type GaAs nanopillars (NPs) grown on GaAs(111) B substrates…
Waste heat can be directly converted into electrical energy by performing the Olsen cycle on pyroelectric…
This paper reports on direct thermal to electrical energy conversion by performing the Olsen (or…
On Thursday, April 19th, James Liao was one of nine individuals honored at the White House as Champions…
Materials science and engineering professor Bruce Dunn, holder of the Nippon Sheet Glass Company…
A Penn State University research team views wastewater as an important energy resource, a raw material….
As the nation’s power system ages and grows insufficient, UC researchers are building a smarter,…
A new method of collecting the sun’s energy and using it to power man’s devices is being perfected…
A record-breaking polymer solar cell made by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles,…
Two types of raw materials are currently used for biorefining and biofuel production: carbohydrates…
Researchers at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a…
A company that is commercializing a next-generation biofuels platform and has licensed intellectual…
In a study published today in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from UCLA’s Henry Samueli School…
As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of…
With major funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Los Angeles Department of Water and…
In the world of solar energy, organic photovoltaic solar cells have a wide range of potential applications,…
A blackout leaves five million without power in a major city in southern California and parts of…
Researchers have found a way for LCD screens to charge using solar power, indoor light and the devices’…
For Engineering Professor Rajit Gadh, knowledge is power. In particular, that’s electric power…
Kim was selected by Dong-A Newspaper for his outstanding research in the field of micro electro-mechanical…
Dr. Gadh’s contributions are in the area of information-based design and manufacturing. His first…
This chair is the first in the world dedicated to the area of electronic information displays. Yang’s…
The endowed chair is intended to educate a brand of engineers who can design new technological products…
We have investigated the incorporation of sulfur into CuIn(Se,S)2 thin films from different bonding…
We investigate the molecular species present in hydrazine CuIn(Se,S)2 precursor solutions, their…
As state of the art flash memory technologies scale down to sub 30 nm node, conventional floating…
We have measured the phase stability and thermoelastic equation of state of ultrahard rhenium diboride…
This paper reports the cross-plane thermal conductivity of highly ordered amorphous and crystalline…
Solar radiation is the energy source driving the metabolic activity of microorganisms able to photobiologically…
Clean Green IGERT Newsletter Volume 3, December 21, 2011. Highlights from the Clean Energy for Green…
The directed growth of III–V nanopillars is used to demonstrate bottom-up photonic crystal lasers….
We demonstrate nanopillar- (NP) based plasmon-enhanced photodetectors (NP-PEPDs) operating in the…
Photovoltaic devices using GaAs nanopillar radial p–n junctions are demonstrated by means of catalyst-free…
We report on the formation and optical properties of bottom-up photonic crystal (PC) cavities formed…
This paper reports on direct thermal to electrical energy conversion by performing the Olsen cycle…
This perspective paper outlines the fundamental principles and state-of-the-art of membrane-based…
Silver nanowire (AgNW) networks are promising candidates to replace indium–tin–oxide (ITO) as…
We demonstrated plasmonic effects in an inverted tandem polymer solar cell configuration by blending…
Clean Green IGERT (UCLA) trainees Razmig Kandilian and Ian McKinley (advisor Prof. Laurent Pilon)…
Clean Green IGERT (CGI) at UCLA held a four hour intellectual-property negotiation exercise on September…
Clean Green IGERT Newsletter Volume 2, April 11, 2011. Highlights from the second year of the Clean…
*New course at UCLA created by IGERT faculty.
Advanced concepts and technologies used in energy conversion,…
*New course at UCLA created by IGERT faculty.
This course introduces fundamental physical and chemical…
Blog by trainee Rita Blaik (PI Prof. Bruce Dunn) on the ‘third culture’. Rita’s specialization…
Pictured above is Omar Asensio (far left) at the oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship academy which…
Clean Green IGERT (CGI) Newsletter Volume 1, August 19, 2010. Highlights from the first year of the…
Clean Green IGERT Newsletter Volume 3, December 21, 2011. Highlights from the Clean Energy for Green…
Over the past year, we have worked hard to put together a collection of demonstrations on renewable…
