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2025 BEaRS Workshop

Daniel Morton — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:38:29 +0000

2025 BEaRS Workshop Daniel Morton Mon, 07/21/2025 - 16:38

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The 2025 BEaRS Workshop brought together researchers from across the front range (and beyond, with our guests from Japan) to participate in cross-cutting interdisciplinary discussion focused on energy and resilience.

This inaugural Boulder Energy and Resilient Sustainability (BEaRS) workshop brought together scientists from across a range of disciplines, from the social sciences to fundamental physics, from buildings and control to electronics and computing, all discussing how we can better use energy to develop a more resilient future.

The program for the three-day workshop was made up from seven session, with topics including sustainability and the built environment, active matter and chiral materials, building energy technologies, energy systems and the economics of renewable integration, energy policy, grid optimization and energy efficient computing. We welcomed guests from across the Front Range, from Golden to Fort Collins, and further afield, with collaborators from the WPI-SKCM2, based at Hiroshima University.

The program was designed to include a range of speakers, from invited plenary speakers to student researchers, the aim was to provide opportunities for connection and discussion and to seed cross-disciplinary ideas. The plenary speakers really set the tone for each of the days, striking notes of optimism and encouragement, while also instilling urgency and impatience for change.

Amory Lovins, a co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, joined us from Stanford to present on how integrative design can be used to enhance efficiencies and drive down costs in buildings, everything from the house Amory lives in, to factories for Intel. Using this design principles for today’s technologies can have significant lasting impact in reducing energy use. We have the technology, and we know how to design for it.

Chuck Kutscher, who has spent decades at the cutting-edge of renewable energy research at NREL and now as a RASEI Fellow, gave an overview talk on the clean energy transition with a focus on air pollution and human health. Chuck highlighted all the ways in which we can drive down air pollution as we move to cleaner energy and the impacts, both on human health and societal economics that these changes would make. Central to this change is the drive toward electrification, it will provide cheaper electricity that will significantly reduce the impact on human health.

Ian Lange, an economist from the Colorado School of Mines, an expert in global mineral policy, gave an insightful overview of the status of the global mineral market and provided perspectives on how to think about and understand this industry. The knowledge imparted, both on how to think about the minerals in the soil, and some of the factors that are real drivers in this discussion provided a great way to better understand this important market for technology.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend and participate in the lively questions, panels, and discussion. The opportunity to spend time with experts from a wide range of fields and approach current ideas from new perspectives is extremely valuable and a great opportunity to explore some of the intersectional ways in which disparate fields can work together.

The workshop was capped off with some of the workshop participants, after a busy three days, finding the motivation to hike up Bear Peak on Saturday morning,

July 2025

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An ultrafast microscope makes movies one femtosecond at a time

Daniel Morton — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:53:51 +0000

An ultrafast microscope makes movies one femtosecond at a time Daniel Morton Tue, 03/11/2025 - 09:53

March 2025

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Correlated nanoimaging of structure and dynamics of cation-polaron coupling in hybrid perovskites

Daniel Morton — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:51:04 +0000

Correlated nanoimaging of structure and dynamics of cation-polaron coupling in hybrid perovskites Daniel Morton Wed, 02/26/2025 - 15:51

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 2025, 11, eads3706

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2024 Earthshot Prize for Fix Our Climate

Daniel Morton — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:09:13 +0000

2024 Earthshot Prize for Fix Our Climate Daniel Morton Wed, 11/06/2024 - 12:09

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Find out more about the award

Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems

ATS Award Press Release

The Earthshot Prize

ATS Award Information

RASEI Graduate Jake Perez (Shaheen Group) and Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems Team Win 2024 Earthshot Prize to Transform Our Planet

Pioneering Energy Solution Converts Industrial waste Heat into Clean Electricity, Revolutionizing Global Energy Use

The Earthshot Prize, inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s “Moonshot” challenge in 1962 to land a man on the moon, was launched by Prince William in 2020 to search for, and scale, the most innovative solutions to the world’s greatest environmental needs. The aim is to unleash the urgent optimism required to accelerate and scale the environmental innovations that will repair and regenerate our planet. In 2024 there were over 5,000 nominations across five categories. One of the 20 winners was the Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems (ATS) team, including Jake Perez, a RASEI alum.

The ATS team was awarded the distinguished 2024 Earthshot “Fix Our Climate” prize for their transformative efforts against climate change. Chosen from 5,342 nominations across 141countries, this prestigious award was recently celebrated at the Earthshot Prize ceremony in Cape Town, that brought together global stakeholders in the fight to save the climate, including Prince William and Sir David Attenborough.

Waste heat is everywhere. Globally, of the energy used to power the industries that the world needs, such as cement and steel, approximately 60% is simply lost as waste. This wasted heat is the equivalent of the energy used by 4 billion homes, twice the number of homes that are on the planet. It is a huge economic and environmental cost. ATS’s revolutionary technology has the potential to redefine the energy sector by tackling the colossal challenge of industrial waste heat, by changing perspectives and considering this ‘waste heat’ as an untapped resource.

ATS has developed a solid-state approach to harness electricity from waste heat, eliminating the resilience on moving parts. This is a shift from traditional turbine-approaches that are complex, have a lot of moving parts and can often rely on hazardous chemicals. The ATS cartridge system is designed for seamless integration across a wide range of industrial applications. You can learn more about the team and the technology that they are developing on this short video.

Congratulations to Jake Perez, who is a RASEI alumni from the Shaheen Group, and the whole team at ATS! Excited to see what is next!

11/06/2024

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Growing Agrivoltaics

Daniel Morton — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:30:01 +0000

Growing Agrivoltaics Daniel Morton Mon, 09/30/2024 - 11:30

JOURNAL OF PHOTONICS FOR ENERGY, 2024, 14, 3, 030101

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Tuning the activation function to optimize the forecast horizon of a reservoir computer

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Tuning the activation function to optimize the forecast horizon of a reservoir computer Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/12/2024 - 00:00

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS: COMPLEXITY, 2024, 5, 035004

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Status report on emerging photovoltaics

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Status report on emerging photovoltaics Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/14/2023 - 00:00

JOURNAL OF PHOTONICS FOR ENERGY, 2023, 13, 4, 042301

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Lateral spectrum splitting system with perovskite photovoltaic cells

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Lateral spectrum splitting system with perovskite photovoltaic cells Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/18/2022 - 00:00

J. Photonics for Energy, 2022, 12, 2, 022206

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Increased crystallite size in thin films of C60 and p-terphenyls via PDMS-assisted crystallization

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Increased crystallite size in thin films of C60 and p-terphenyls via PDMS-assisted crystallization Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 02/25/2022 - 00:00

J. Mat. Chem. C., 2022, 10, 5657-5665

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2021 Next Generation Solar Energy Conference 6

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 07:00:00 +0000

2021 Next Generation Solar Energy Conference 6 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/08/2021 - 00:00

The NGSE-6 took place from December 6-8, 2021, and was co-organized by RASEI, with RASEI Fellow Garry Rumbles on the Organizing Committee. The program covered the following areas:

Fundamentals of Photovoltaics and Simulation
Organic Photovoltaics – Materials, Stability
Perovskites – Materials, Stability
Advanced Concepts, Processing & Upscaling, Applications

RASEI Fellows Matt Beard, Art Nozik, Sean Shaheen, and Mike Toney were invited keynote speakers.

NGSE-6

RASEI helped host NGSE-6 at ��ƷSM��ӰƬ in December 2021

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