John Cenker, Margherita Taddei, Leo Zasada win 2023 CEI Student Awards
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1692208519060{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"]August 16, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1691523011224{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"]John Cenker, Margherita Taddei, and Leo Zasada received the Clean Energy Institute’s 2023 Clean Energy Student Achievement Awards at the institute’s annual end-of-year seminar on May 25.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1691523080150{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"] Scientific Achievement [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1691523107176{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"]The Clean Energy Scientific Achievement Award recognizes UW graduate students who have demonstrated extraordinary productivity in clean energy research and scholarship, and have contributed meaningfully to the scientific community.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1691523110808{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"] John Cenker [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1691523157007{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"]John Cenker is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in physics and a 2021-22 CEI Graduate Fellow, advised by CEI faculty...
STEM and the Symphony
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1706054437205{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]By Nancy Joseph | Originally published on the UW College of Arts & Sciences website June 1, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1706053047062{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]As a high school student in Redmond, Washington, Meghna Shankar was part of the Green Team, her school’s environmental club. Wanting to continue environmental work as a UW student, she was excited to learn that the UW’s Clean Energy Institute (CEI) provides research opportunities for undergraduates.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1706053059785{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]“I saw that the Clean Energy Institute was pretty well funded, with a lot of professors,” recalls Shankar, who graduates this month with a double degree in physics (College of Arts & Sciences) and computer...
Six CEI researchers among world’s most influential scholars
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1608139387235{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]UW professors Guozhong Cao, David Cobden, Alex K.Y. Jen, Jun Liu, Xiaodong Xu, and CEI Graduate Fellow Kyle Seyler make Web of Science Group’s 2020 list of Highly Cited Researchers[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1608139405402{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]December 16, 2020 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1608146657979{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]Six UW Clean Energy Institute (CEI) researchers are among the most influential in the world, according to the annual Highly Cited Researchers list published by the Web of Science Group. UW professors Guozhong Cao, David Cobden, Jun Liu, and Xiaodong Xu; UW professor emeritus Alex K-Y. Jen; and UW alum and CEI Graduate Fellow Dr. Kyle Seyler (Ph.D....
All together now: Experiments with twisted 2D materials catch electrons behaving collectively
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1602006386435{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]By James Urton, UW News[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1602005322374{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]October 6, 2020 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1602005344894{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}"]Scientists can have ambitious goals: curing disease, exploring distant worlds, clean-energy revolutions. In physics and materials research, some of these ambitious goals are to make ordinary-sounding objects with extraordinary properties: wires that can transport power without any energy loss, or quantum computers that can perform complex calculations that today’s computers cannot achieve. And the emerging workbenches for the experiments that gradually move us toward these goals are 2D materials — sheets of material that are a single layer of atoms thick.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1602005353517{padding-top:...
Five CEI faculty among world’s most influential researchers
Professors Guozhong Cao, Jiun-Haw Chu, professor emeritus Alex K-Y. Jen, Jun Liu, and Xiaodong Xu are among the most influential in the world, according to the annual Highly Cited Researchers list published by the Web of Science Group. The list identifies researchers that produced multiple publications in the top 1% of citations for their field and year of publication over the past decade — this year’s edition covers the time period from 2008 through 2018. ...
Clean Energy Institute Graduate Fellow begins Princeton University physics professorship
Dr. Sanfeng Wu talks to CEI about his research in UW professor Xiaodong Xu’s lab, his recent postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, and the future of his work at Princeton. ...
Pushing magnetic materials to the atomically-thin limit
Magnetic materials are the backbone of modern digital information technologies, such as hard-disk storage. A UW-led team has now taken this one step further by encoding information using magnets that are just a few layers of atoms in thickness. ...
CEI Research Highlights: January 2018
Research updates from the labs of Profs. Daniel Kirschen, Karl Böhringer, Charles T. Campbell, and Xiaodong Xu. Topics include energy storage planning and markets, self-cleaning solar panels, modeling chemical potential in nanoparticles, and the optoelectronic properties of 2-dimensional magnets. ...