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PHaSE Energy Frontier Research Center at UMass Amherst
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NEWS ARCHIVE
Archived 2009-Aug-09 U.S. DOE Announces Energy Frontier Research Centers
Archived 2009-Aug-09 UMass Amherst EFRC Proposal
Archived 2009-Aug-09 EFRC Funding Distributed to Successful Centers
Archived 2009-2010 News Stories
09/2011. Renovations are now complete in the PHaSE Photovoltaic & Optical Spectroscopy Facility.
PHaSE central facility renovations have been essentially completed. Conte B523/B524 now features multiple new instrument stations and an office systems furniture area. Spectroscopic and cyclic voltametry instrumentation that was housed in LGRT 17 during the renovation will be moved to Conte B523.
PHaSE is grateful to the DOE BES and ARRA for providing the funding to enable this renovation. The room design was done by Facilities Director Dr. Volodimyr Duzhko, whose eye for effective setup in the planning stage, and for detail during the renovations, made the original area into the high quality space that it now is. UMass Facilities & Campus Planning engineering Larry Merola was great as the main coordinator for everything during the year-long process of planning and carrying out the work. Charlie Sereda (contractor project manager) and his right hand man Andrew Desmarteau oversaw the work carried out by subcontractor Kurtz Inc, keeping in close contact through weekly meetings with Volodimyr, Larry, co-director Paul M. Lahti, and EHS representative Phung Morgan, with periodic "drop-ins" by a number of UMass facilities people and state inspectors. UMass Amherst Environmental Health and Safety made a generous loan of space in LGRT 17 throughout the period of the renovation, thereby enabling PHaSE's crucial optical spectrometers to stay online for work to continue -- many thanks to Don Robinson, Jim Field, and Haneef Sahabdeen for their patience and help during this loan period.
Access to the facility requires that one's UMass ID card be updated for magswipe permission. Access requests may be made through Facility Director Dr. Volodimyr Duzhko. |
05/2011. Congratulations  to PHaSE investigator Prof. Ryan Hayward of Polymer Science & Engineering on being selected as a 2011 Department of Energy Early Career Award! Ryan was one of fewer than 70 awardees nationwide, out of about 1150 applications. According to the DOE's Office of Science, the Early Career Award program aims "at providing incentives for scientists to focus on mission research areas that are a high priority for the Department of Energy and the Nation".
For more information, see the DOE's "In the News" website.
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05/2011. PHaSE Scientists at the EFRC Summit & Forum in Washington DC. 
Graduate students, postdocs, and faculty from UMass Amherst and PHaSE subcontractor campus attended the big "Science for our Nation's Energy Future" conference held in the heart of Washington DC on 25-27 May 2011. Over 1000 people from government, academia, and industry, fro the USA and around the world, attended the meeting. Congressional members from the House of Representatives and Senate, as well as Secretary of State Steven Chu, were featured speakers at the meeting, which included multiple Nobel laureates and international scientists. The DOE Office of Science EFRC program was described as a "Manhattan project" for our generation, seeking to create the scientific and technological means to achieve U.S. energy self-sufficiency.
PHaSE representatives presented three talks (Profs. Tom Russell, Todd Emrick, D. Venkataraman) and multiple posters (Joelle Labastide, Dian Chen, Sumeet Pandey, Emily Pentzer), and Tom Russell represented the center on Organic Photovoltaics Closeout Panel for the meeting.
For more information including summaries of many of the talks, see the summit weblink, and the UMass news link.
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07/2011. Listen to many of the keynote presentations from the recent Energy Future forum at Washington DC.
There were a number of informative, excellent talks by keynote speakers at the recent Washington DC EFRC summit. Talks were given by a senator and congressional representatives, by Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu, and a number of high profile scientists. The talks include important recent results, and background about challenges in energy research and policy implementation. To view the talks, click through to the summit archive site for the talks. |
04/2011. PHaSE research is featured in a publication from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Recovery and Reinvestment Office (MR&RO). The office director, Jeffrey Simpson, visited PHaSE on campus, heard about the ongoing research, and even took a turn at trying out the scientific methdology.
Check page 21 of the ARRA stimulus report from MR&RO !
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03/2011. Solar Cells from Plastics? Mission Possible at the PHaSE energy research center, UMass Amherst!, a YouTube video about work at PHaSE, debuted on 24 March 2011. This video is part of our center's contributions to the Energy Frontier Research Centers Summit & Forum on 25-27 May 2011, which is further described below.
Check it out (or point/click the picture!)
Many thanks to Harihara Venkatraman (DV group, ERG 1) and Dr. Emily Pentzer (Emrick group, ERG 1) for starring in the video clip, along with co-star Dian Chen (Russell group, ERG 2). Dr. Larry Friedman helped coordinate the project. PHaSE is also very grateful for the technical and artistic assistance with video production and stock footage from the UMass Amherst News & Media Relations Office.
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03/2011. PHaSE will have a strong presence at the DOE-sponsored Energy Frontier Research Centers Summit & Forum on 25-27 May 2011.
This will be a very large meeting, parts of which will be open to the local public in the DC area, and parts of which will be an exciting exchange of findings from all of the EFRC's in their first 1.5 years of work.
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11/2010. PHaSE member S. Thaymanavan was recently selected as the first UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar for his work in the are of charge transport and proton conductivity.
Thai is a member of the UMass Amherst Chemistry Department, and co-director of the the Massachusetts Center for Renewable Energy Science and Technology (MassCREST). His group works on a number of areas in sustainable energy research, as well as his work with PHaSE.
See more about the story here.
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11/2010. PHaSE member Alejandro Briseno's group's work to fabricate the
first single crystalline p-n heterojunction by vapor deposition was recently highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News.
Alex is a member of the UMass Amherst Polymer Science & Engineering Department. The highlighted work (supported outside PHaSE) shows the sort of molecular engineering where Alex is making important contributions to work in PHaSE.
See more about the story here.
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11/2010. PHaSE member Ryan Hayward was one of this year's prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) winners, for his outstanding work in the area of soft polymer devices.
Ryan is a member of the UMass Amherst Polymer Science & Engineering Department. His research on morphology of potential heterojunctions is an very important part of work in ERG 2 at PHaSE.
See more about the story here.
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11/2010. PHaSE is pleased to welcome Thomas E. Mallouk, Evan Pugh Professor of Materials Chemistry and Physics at The Pennsylvania State University!
Tom is Associate Director of the Penn State NSF-funded MRSEC, and of the Penn State Center for Solar Nanomaterials. His group's widely recognized excellence in the area of nanoscale inorganic materials strongly complements PHaSE's interests in composite systems for solar cell work.
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