UMass Amherst Energy Frontier Research Center

Laser spectroscopy laboratory;
measuring energy transfer.

Our university is the site of one of the Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2009. The Center brings together the research of eighteen UMass Amherst researchers from four departments, plus collaborators from other universities, companies, and government laboratories. The EFRC provides scientific synergy by combination of diverse skills and interests that are all brought to bear on basic research in the area of polymer-based solar energy harvesting and conversion.

We are also seeking highly qualified people for our EFRC team, including a Managing Director for the whole EFRC, and Facilities Director for the main instrumentation and device fabrication/testing lab.

We hope that you will visit these pages to check on news, publications, and progress of the participants as the work moves forward.

News

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Creation of Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC's) (3/09)

UMass Amherst EFRC to Develop Energy-Harvesting Polymers and Materials (8/09)

DOE Distributes Funds to EFRC's (8/09)

EFRC Welcomes Grants/Office Manager Sandi Harris Graves! (9/09)

EFRC Seeks Managing Director (9/09)

EFRC Seeks Facilities Director (10/09)

EFRC in mtg with delegation of repres-entatives from several Basque region companies (9/09)