Grants & Awards

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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