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POSE Fall 2024 Kickoff Workshop

Daniel Morton — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 22:43:24 +0000

POSE Fall 2024 Kickoff Workshop Daniel Morton Mon, 10/07/2024 - 16:43

Daniel Morton

In early October of 2024, RASEI hosted the kickoff workshop for POSE, a new community being brought together to address some of the most critical challenges we face to do with plastics and polymers.

Polymer Solutions for the Environment, or POSE, seeks to establish a Center that will bring together expertise around the development of a circular polymer economy.

Plastics and polymers are critical materials in the modern age, forming the building blocks of everything from electronics to packaging, but this versatility comes with a cost, namely the waste and infiltration of the environment by microplastics.

This workshop brought together thought leaders in the polymer sector, from a cross section of academic, national lab and industrial organizations. The goal was to explore how best the POSE community can build a program that complements existing efforts in the field to drive the science and policy forward.

Three areas of focus were discussed, including the development of a circular polymer economy, the development of polymers that are needed for a just clean energy transition, and the integration of the science and technology research with policy, economics and social sciences.

It was a great meeting with more than 60 participants who came together to discuss ideas, present their research and approaches, and help shape the goals and directions of this nascent community.

10/07/2024

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Solvent-mediated oxide hydrogenation in layered cathodes

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Solvent-mediated oxide hydrogenation in layered cathodes Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/12/2024 - 00:00

SCIENCE, 2024, 385, 6714, 1230-1236

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Discovery could lead to longer-lasting EV batteries, hasten energy transition

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Discovery could lead to longer-lasting EV batteries, hasten energy transition Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/12/2024 - 00:00

Mike Toney explores how lithium-ion batteries self-discharge to improve future designs

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Polymer Solutions for the Environment Fall 2024 Workshop

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:52:40 +0000

Polymer Solutions for the Environment Fall 2024 Workshop Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/09/2024 - 09:52

Polymer Solutions for the Environment Fall 2024 Workshop

Monday October 7, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

CU Boulder, East Campus, SEEC Building C120

Join us at this kick-off workshop for the Polymer Solutions for the Environment initiative. This will be held at CU Boulder, on the East Campus in the SEEC Building, Room C120 on Monday October 7, 2024. This one-day workshop brings together key collaborators and stakeholders from across the region, with a focus on discussing and developing a roadmap for POSE. Talks will have a spotlight on how POSE can join and amplify the existing regional community of researchers in tackling Colorado's most pressing sustainability challenges and exploring the role of polymer science in addressing these issues. We plan to define the goals, milestones, and target research areas for POSE.

10/07/2024

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Hydrogen Bonding Analysis of Structural Transition-Induced Symmetry Breaking and Spin Splitting in a Hybrid Perovskite Employing a Synergistic Diffraction-DFT Approach

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Hydrogen Bonding Analysis of Structural Transition-Induced Symmetry Breaking and Spin Splitting in a Hybrid Perovskite Employing a Synergistic Diffraction-DFT Approach Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/31/2024 - 00:00

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2024

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RASEI Fellows Collaborating Partners in two new NSF PREM Awards

Daniel Morton — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:13:17 +0000

RASEI Fellows Collaborating Partners in two new NSF PREM Awards Daniel Morton Thu, 07/25/2024 - 16:13

Daniel Morton

NSF Press Release

UC Merced VISION Press Release

PEAQS PREM Page

VISION PREM Page

Several RASEI Fellows and members of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD) were involved in the development of successful proposals for NSF Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) grants.

These grants will enable RASEI members to form closer partnerships with researchers at Fort Lewis College (Durango, CO), Norfolk State University (Norfolk, VA), and UC Merced (Merced, CA). These projects will expand participation, provide access to materials and facilities and provide support for training, research exchanges, meetings and workshops.

Two proposals were funded. The Venture for Innovation in Self-Assembly and Integration of Optoelectronic Nanostructures (VISION) focuses on a partnership between IMOD (which includes RASEI Fellows Seth Marder, Mike Toney, Gordana Dukovic, David Jonas and Matt Beard), and UC Merced. The Partnership for Education and Advancement of Quantum and nano-Sciences (PEAQS) brings together the IMOD team with researchers from Fort Lewis College and Norfolk State University.

While their scientific and technical foci are different, these collaborations have shared missions of developing programs that cultivate student potential in STEM, offering enriched research opportunities, interdisciplinary scientific collaborations, pedagogical development and inclusive mentoring.

Check out more about each the programs by reading their abstract and checking out their websites.

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New Frontiers Grant Program Successes for RASEI Fellows

Anonymous — Wed, 08 May 2024 20:48:10 +0000

New Frontiers Grant Program Successes for RASEI Fellows Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/08/2024 - 14:48

Daniel Morton

The CU Boulder New Frontiers Grant Program was launched in 2024. The program is designed to foster visionary groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research projects that have potential for high impact. This could include significant advances in knowledge, problem-solving or innovation that can build to new paradigms of understanding.

New Frontiers Grant Program

2024 Award Announcement

A central column of this program is to stimulate the development of new strengths at CU Boulder, driven by researchers thinking across disciplines and developing methods to work together to tackle complex and impactful research challenges.

Twenty-six teams submitted collaborative proposals were submitted to this program earlier this year and four projects were selected as winners of planning grants, two of which involved RASEI Fellows.

New Frontiers in Bio-Integrated Organic Computing & Low-Energy Innovative Carbon-based Manufacturing, or BIO-CLIC, led by RASEI Fellow Jeff Cameron and engaging a team across four CU Boulder departments and collaborators from NREL, will explore challenges in computational efficiency by investigating unconventional computing approaches that employ renewable sources and carbon fixation processes.

Polymers for a Sustainable Earth, or POSE, led by Wei Zhang from the Department of Chemistry and involving RASEI Fellows Dan Kaffine, Kat Knauer, Oana Luca, Seth Marder, Srinivas Parinandi, Mike Toney, and Terri Walters, brings together collaborators from six CU Boulder departments and NREL. POSE will foster a community to facilitate extramural research and funding at a scale to effectively address the issue of plastic pollution and new, sustainable methods to synthesize, reuse, and recycle polymers.

The four teams were chosen following 14 in-person pitches, where the teams outlined how their proposed work addresses important societal problems through adopting collaborative interdisciplinary approaches. The four teams will now use the next year to advance their proposals, build out the team and conduct initial investigations on how to take things forward. The teams will then compete for the single Launch Phase Grant of $200k, which will be awarded in June 2025.

Congratulations to the teams! We look forward to seeing your progress over the next year!

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Ligand Steric Profile Tunes the Reactivity of Indium Phosphide Clusters

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Ligand Steric Profile Tunes the Reactivity of Indium Phosphide Clusters Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/22/2024 - 00:00

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2024, 146, 5, 3102-3113

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Probing transference and field-induced polymer velocity in block copolymer electrolytes

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Probing transference and field-induced polymer velocity in block copolymer electrolytes Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/10/2024 - 00:00

CELL REPORTS PHYSICAL SCIENCE, 2024, 5, 1, 101766

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Reducing delamination of an electron-transporting polymer from a metal oxide for electrochemical applications

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Reducing delamination of an electron-transporting polymer from a metal oxide for electrochemical applications Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00

CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 2024, 60, 988-991

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