We will establish, in parallel with soft material design and characterization, molecular level assessments of functional and environmental durability, leading to systems that simultaneously exhibit high functionality and robust electrochemical performance. Durability ultimately underpins technological relevance. Failure to address durability during design and characterization limits the evolution of materials to incremental advances.
Thrust Leaders
Seth Marder
Durability Thrust Co-Lead, SPECS
Deputy Director, Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD)
Director and Fellow, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute
Jianguo Mei
Durability Thrust Co-Lead, SPECS
Co-Chair of Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
Key Investigators
Steve Barlow
Associate Research Professor, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder
Jean-Luc Bredas
Regents Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona
Andrew Ferguson
Group Manager, Spectroscopy & Photoscience, NREL
Shuya Li
Postdoc, Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, Spectroscopy and Photoscience Group, NREL
Tim Lian
Associate Director of Scientific Continuity, SPECS
Charge Transfer Thrust Lead, SPECS
William Henry Emerson Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
Arianna Magni
Postdoc, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Salleo Group
Elisa Miller
SPECS EFRC Associate Director
RASEI Fellow
Chemistry and Nanoscience Center Research Scientist
Erin Ratcliff
Director, SPECS
Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona
Chad Risko
Charge Transport Thrust Lead, SPECS
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky
Faculty Director, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Kentucky
Alberto Salleo
Professor of Materials Science, Stanford University
Natalie Stingelin
Associate Director of Scientific Continuity, SPECS
Chair, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Editor-in-Chief, ‘Journal of Materials Chemistry C’ (RSC)