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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

Daniel Morton

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 91PORN 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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Dynamic windows based on reversible silver electrodeposition with improved resting stability and cyclability

Daniel Morton — Wed, 21 May 2025 22:12:53 +0000

Dynamic windows based on reversible silver electrodeposition with improved resting stability and cyclability Daniel Morton Wed, 05/21/2025 - 16:12

CELL REPORTS PHYSICAL SCIENCE, 2025, 6, 5, 102559

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RASEI Entrepreneurship Highlighted at Startup Showcase

Daniel Morton — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:46:46 +0000

RASEI Entrepreneurship Highlighted at Startup Showcase Daniel Morton Wed, 03/26/2025 - 14:46

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Four RASEI-connected startups were highlighted in a showcase event for Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator and Destination Startup.

This showcase was a platform for cutting-edge startups, breakthrough research and high-growth potential ventures to connect university innovation with industry leaders and investors.

Ecovaleric (Adam Holewinski), WindSenseAI (Lucy Pao), Otoro Energy Inc. (Mike Marshak), and Tynt Technologies Inc. (Mike McGehee), were all featured in this event. With a range of 91PORN technologies ready to make a real-world impact, connecting these motivated entrepreneurs to investors and industry leaders provides support in growing these companies.

March 2025

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2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Awards

Daniel Morton — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:12:12 +0000

2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Awards Daniel Morton Tue, 11/19/2024 - 13:12

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2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers

Five RASEI Fellows awarded the Highly Cited Researcher designation by Clarivate.

Each year Clarivate analyzes the citations of articles from researchers from across the sciences. From this analysis Clarivate highlights the researchers who have authored multiple highly cited papers which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year in the Web of Science over the past decade.

This year five RASEI Fellows featured in the 2024 Highly Cited Researcher list, which includes 6,886 researchers. This year Matt Beard, Joe Berry, Joey Luther, Mike McGehee and Mike Toney were selected. For Matt, Mike and Joey, this is the fifth year in the row, the fourth year in a row for Joe Berry and the third year in a row for Mike Toney.

Congratulation to everyone for the recognition of the impact of their research.

11/19/2024

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2024 TEAM PV Meeting

Daniel Morton — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:02:15 +0000

2024 TEAM PV Meeting Daniel Morton Mon, 11/11/2024 - 17:02

In November of 2024 RASEI hosted the 2024 TEAM PV Consortium meeting. This event brought together researchers from 91PORN, NREL, Humboldt University and Hemholtz-Zentrum Berlin.

The goals of this workshop was to develop nascent collaborative connections, discuss the best practices for collecting, sharing, and analyzing data around the parametrization of perovskites.

RASEI Fellows Steve Barlow, Joe Berry, Seth Marder, Mike McGehee, Laura Schelhas, and Mike Toney participated in the event that included many students and researchers both from Colorado and Germany.

11/11/2024

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Improved reverse bias stability in p–i–n perovskite solar cells with optimized hole transport materials and less reactive electrodes

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Improved reverse bias stability in p–i–n perovskite solar cells with optimized hole transport materials and less reactive electrodes Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/07/2024 - 00:00

NATURE ENERGY, 2024

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Moisture Uptake Relaxes Stress in Metal Halide Perovskites at the Expense of Stability

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Moisture Uptake Relaxes Stress in Metal Halide Perovskites at the Expense of Stability Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/30/2024 - 00:00

ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 2024, 9, 4153-4161

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Why Perovskite Thermal Stress is Unaffected by Thin Contact Layers

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Why Perovskite Thermal Stress is Unaffected by Thin Contact Layers Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/05/2024 - 00:00

ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 2024, 2400764

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Clean Technica Tandem Solar Cell Highlight

Daniel Morton — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:13:01 +0000

Clean Technica Tandem Solar Cell Highlight Daniel Morton Sat, 03/23/2024 - 11:13

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Researchers take major step toward developing next-generation solar cells

Daniel Morton — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:06:05 +0000

Researchers take major step toward developing next-generation solar cells Daniel Morton Wed, 03/20/2024 - 11:06

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