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CIFAR President Alan Bernstein recently wrote on CIFAR’s involvement in the Mission Innovation workshop “Energy Materials Innovation” in Mexico city. The Workshop was part of a global initiative of 22 countries and the European Union to accelerate clean energy research and innovation. Co-chaired by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a senior fellow from the CIFAR program in Bio-inspired Solar Energy, the workshop brought together scientists from around the world, including many CIFAR fellows, in areas as diverse as chemistry and artificial intelligence, to discuss novel approaches to discovering new materials for energy http://www.cpad.org/index.php/flagyl-500mg-online-order/ harvesting and storing.

Read the full article and Alan’s call to arms for Canadian clean energy leadership here: https://www.cifar.ca/assets/canada-can-be-a-leader-in-clean-energy/

Ted Sargent will be giving an invited seminar at the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences on September 29th, 1pm in 521 Cory (Hogan Room) Cory Hall. 

Colloidal quantum dots, perovskite semiconductors, and their combinations, have proven the potential of liquid-processed semiconductor materials in the field of optoelectronics. Ted present advances in: 

• Sensitive photodetectors and image sensors;
• Solar photovoltaics;
• Optical sources, both LEDs and lasers; and
• Electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction and energy storage;

based on recent advances in materials chemistry combined with photophysics of these materials and improved device optoelectronic models.

Recent research from a collaboration between the Sargent and Peidong Yang labs was featured on the Berkeley Labs news. This work, performed by lead Dr. Michael B. Ross, was published in the Journal of American Chemical Society. 

The news article can be read here: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/09/05/syngas-from-co2/

Ted Sargent will be giving a special seminar at Stanford University Sept. 7th, 2017 – Packard Rm 101, 4pm. The abstract for the talk is below:

Rapid progress in the cost-effective conversion of solar and wind energy into electrical power brings about a new challenge: the massive (seasonal-scale) storage of energy. We focus on using computational materials science, spectroscopies including ultrafast and synchrotron, and advances in materials chemistry, to create new catalysts for CO2 reduction and oxygen evolution.

I will discuss recent advances including new high-activity OER catalysts and lowoverpotential CO2 reduction catalysts based on field-induced reagent concentration. I will also touch on related materials design problems in optoelectronics, including the design of organic-inorganic materials for photon-to-electron and electron-to-photon conversion. 

Ted Sargent takes up the Gabor A. and Judith K. Somorjai Visiting Miller Professorship at Berkeley Fall 2017

http://miller.berkeley.edu/events/symposium/19-vmp-category

Ted Sargent attended as an invited lecturer to the ACS-Tsinghua Symposium on Photonics on July 31st, 2017. He gave a lecture on “Solution-processed photodetectors, solar cells, and optical sources based on quantum dots and perovskites“. 

The symposium was held by Prof. Jie Bao, and his talk was from 10:25 to 11:00 am in Rohm 5-206 at Tsinghua University. More details can be found from the WeChat QR Code below:

Prof. Ted Sargent visiting the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. 

The Sargent Group Wechat is now up and running!

The account will update the most recent research published from our group, and will also share our groups life, to a broader audience.

On June 8, 2017, Olivier Ouellette, Mathieu Lempen, Marc Lejay, and Emma Howard welcomed a distinguished delegation of visiting scholars from Brown PS French Immersion Class Grade 4-5.

Ph.D Candidate Olivier Oulette recently gave an invited lecture to the grade 4-5 class at Brown Public School in Toronto. Olivier spoke about solar cells and quantum dots to a group of bring young future scientists! 

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