Chika Okolo, an NSF RET Program teacher, worked with us over the summer to understand the fabrication of perovskite solar cells and how to incorporate them into high school teaching! He presented his work on understanding halide perovskite solar cells and optimizing hole transport layers at the Rice Engineering STEM symposium!…
Siraj Sidhik becomes the first student to graduate from the MPEM lab after spending more than 5 years with our lab! He will soon be joining Cubic PV to continue his efforts in making high-efficiency and stable perovskite solar cells! Congratulations, Dr. Siraj!…
This award is presented to Dr. Aditya Mohite of Rice University for achieving an integrated halide perovskite photoelectrochemical cell with record-setting solar-driven water-splitting efficiency of 20.8%. Mohite’s system exhibited extended durability due to a novel graphite anticorrosion barrier that translates >99% of photoelectric power directly to hydrogen production. His work increasing the durability and efficiency…
Andrew Torma is a 3rd year PhD student in the Applied Physics Program. He recently defended his master’s thesis on “Nanoimaging to Determine the interstitial nature of Mn(II) doping in 2D halide perovskites”…
Jessica is one of the 38 students from Rice who were awarded NSF GRFP 2022. She is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department and will work on 3D and 3D-2D halide perovskite heterostructures for photovoltaic and other optoelectronic devices. https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/nsf-awards-38-graduate-research-fellowships-rice-students…
Dr. Mohite has been included in the list of Annual Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate for 2 years in a row. The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from…
Isaac Metcalf is one of the 41 recipients of the prestigious Hertz Fellowship 2020 from the country and the only one from Rice University. Isaac completed his undergraduate from MIT with a dual degree in physics and material sciences. He will join the MPEM (Material Physics for Energy Management) group in the fall semester 2020…
Wenbin Li, second-year graduate student from the Applied Physics Program, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support his research. He is among the 25 recipients of NSF GRFP from Rice University for the year 2020. Congratulations, Wenbin Li! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recruits high-potential, early career…
Congratulations! Dr. Jean-Christophe Blancon, the Senior Scientist in our group was listed on The World’s 2019 Highly Cited Researchers. https://www.publons.com/researcher/2037095/jean-christophe-blancon/…
Friday, December 6, 2019 Ten faculty members in the George R. Brown School of Engineering are ranked among the world’s highly cited researchers, including seven in the materials science category. The 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list is a global accounting of scientists who produced the last decade’s most influential papers, compiled by the Web of Science group,…