Awardee Profiles (2010)
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Cottrell Scholar Awards
Sarbajit Banerjee
Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo
Understanding the Influence of Finite Size on Phase Transitions and Intercalation Processes in Vanadium Oxides
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Alberto Daniel Bolatto
Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park
Studying the Drivers of Galaxy Evolution: Gas Reservoirs, Molecular Fractions, and Star Formation
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Duncan Brown
Department of Physics, Syracuse University
Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: A New Frontier in 21st Century Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Richard L. Brutchey
Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California
A Generalized Synthetic Route to Nontoxic Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Use in Inexpensive Solar Cells
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Mark Caprio
Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Symmetries in the nuclear many-body problem: Conquering the computational scale explosion
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Linda Columbus
Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia
Hijacking the Hijackers: Taking Advantage of the Chemistry of Bacterial Pathogens
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Christopher J. Douglas
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Catalytic Methods in Functionalizing Single Bonds to Carbon
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Joshua S. Figueroa
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Isocyanide Analogues of the Unsaturated Metal Carbonyls
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Austen Lamacraft
Department of Physics, University of Virginia
Collective phenomena in ultracold atomic gases
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Jennifer Lynn Ross
Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Studies of Microtubule Intracellular Highways: Building Bridges between Physics and Biology
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Kyle Shen
Department of Physics, Cornell University
Shedding Light on Quantum Interactions in New Correlated Electronic States of Matter
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Scialog: Solar Energy Conversion (Scialog Fellows)
Mu-Hyun Baik
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University at Bloomington
Towards Converting CO2 to Fuel: A Computer-Aided Experimental Discovery of Novel CO2 Reduction Catalysts.
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David E. Cliffel
Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University
Biologically Optimized Protein Films for Solar Energy Conversion.
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Sean Elliott
Department of Chemistry, Boston University
Transforming heme proteins into solar driven redox catalysts by site-directed zinc porphyrin mutation.
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John Gilbertson
Western Washington University
Alan Heyduk
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Molecular Approach to Converting Solar Energy into Chemical Fuel.
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Hugh W, Hillhouse
Department of Chemical Engineering & The Institute of Molecular Engineering and Science, University of Washington
Photoconversion Physics in Quantum-Wire Arrays with Double-Gyroid Topology.
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Rene Lopez
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John M. Lupton
Department of Physics, University of Utah
Nanoplasmonic focusing of light fields to amplify non-linear optical effects in composite photovoltaics.
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Stefan Lutz
Department of Chemistry, Emory University
Directed evolution of hydrogenase for efficient light-driven hydrogen production via quantum dot-enzyme hybrid systems.
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Paul A. Maggard
Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University
Molecular-Level Design of Metal-Oxyfluoride/Organic Solids for Visible-Light Photocatalysis.
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Kathleen Melde
University of Arizona
Eugene Mischenko
Department of Physics, University of Utah
Nanoplasmonic Focusing of Light Fields to Amplify Non-Linear Optical Effects in Composite Photovoltaics.
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Frank E. Osterloh
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
Bottom-Up Assembly of Nanoscale Heterojunctions for Photochemical Energy Conversion.
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Joan M. Redwing
Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Synthesis and Characterization of Core-Shell Wire Heterostructures.
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Raymond Schaak
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
New Chemical Routes for Discovering and Improving Visible-Light Photocatalysts.
Jie Shan
Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University
Overcoming Shockley-Queisser Limit on PV Solar-Energy Conversion Efficiency: Multiple Exciton Generation in One-Dimensional...
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