Photovoltaics and Energy Storage Systems
Tobias Hanrath, Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The photovoltaics and energy systems thrust focuses on building foundational understanding of processing-structure-property relationships required to enable application of NIMs in next-generation energy conversion and storage technologies. We see tremendous opportunities for exploiting the versatile and tunable interactions between the inorganic core and organic corona to create a materials toolbox for energy-related technologies including solar cells, solar thermal capture fluids, light emitting diodes, and next-generation batteries.
Our team consists of a diverse group of scientists and engineers with the shared goal of advancing the broad technological application of nanoscale organic-inorganic hybrid materials through fundamental investigations of their optical electronic, chemical, and thermal properties.
