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Impact Areas

The Advanced Materials for Energy and Electronics Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focuses on the research and development of new materials for:

• Low-cost and high-efficiency photovoltaics
• Energy efficient white lighting
• Multispectral photodetector and light emitting diodes
• High density storage of energy
• Ultrafast, nanoscale electronics

Materials Systems

We are specifically interested in the following classes of materials:

• Small molecule and polymeric organic semiconductors
• One-dimensional nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires, and graphene nanoribbons
• Inorganic-organic hybrid nanostructured composites

Motivations

This work is motivated by society's rapidly growing energy consumption due to the expansion of the worldwide industrial economy, as well as the continued demand for smaller, faster, and more economical electronic devices and materials.

More about our research...

Sorting carbon nanotubes by their electronic type via density gradient ultracentrifugation