Research

Names of NRT Team members are in bold

Jonathan Turnley , Kiruba Catherine Vincent, Apurva A. Pradhan , Isabel Panicker, Ryan N. Swope , Madeleine C. Uible , Suzanne C. Bart , Rakesh Agrawal “Solution Deposition for Chalcogenide Perovskites: A Low-Temperature Route to BaMS3 Materials (M = Ti, Zr, Hf)” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022)

Ryan G Ellis , Jonathan Turnley , David J Rokke , Jacob P Fields, Essam H Alruqobah, Swapnil D Deshmukh, Kim Kisslinger, Rakesh Agrawal “Hybrid Ligand Exchange of Cu(In,Ga)S2 Nanoparticles for Carbon Impurity Removal in Solution Processed Photovoltaics” Chemistry of Materials (2020)

Val Z. Schull , Bassel T. Daher, Margaret W. Gitau , Sushant Mehan, Dennis C. Flanagan “Analyzing FEW Nexus Modeling Tools for Water Resources Decision-Making and Management Applications” Food and Bioproducts Processing (2019)

Swapnil D. Deshmukh, Ryan G. Ellis , Dwi S Sutandar , David J. Rokke , R. Agrawal. “Versatile Colloidal Syntheses of Metal Chalcogenide Nanoparticles from Elemental Precursors using Amine-Thiol Chemistry” Chemistry of Materials (2019)

C. Miskin, Y. Li , A. Perna , R. Ellis , E. K. Grubbs , P. Bermel , R. Agrawal. “Sustainable Coproduction of Food and Solar Power to Relax Land Use Constraints” Nature Sustainability 2, 972-980 (2019)

Peter Bermel “Radiative cooling for concentrating photovoltaics (Conference Presentation)” Proc. SPIE 11121, New Concepts in Solar and Thermal Radiation Conversion II, 1112109 (9 September 2019)

R. Agrawal “Chemical engineering for a solar economy (2017 P. V. Danckwerts Lecture)” Chemical Engineering Science 210 (2019)

Ryan G. Ellis , Doojin Vak, Anthony S. R. Chesman, and Rakesh Agrawal “Slot Die Coating of CIGS Nanoparticle Inks for Scalable Solution Processed Photovoltaics” 46th IEEE PVSC Proceedings, 2019

David Rokke , Swapnil D. Deshmukh, and Rakesh Agrawal “A Novel Approach to Amine-Thiol Molecular Precursors for Fabrication of High Efficiency Thin Film CISSe/CIGSSe Devices” 46th IEEE PVSC Proceedings, 2019

Elizabeth K. Grubbs , James Moore and Peter Bermel “Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy Characterization of Surface and Bulk Quality for Early-Stage Potential of Material Systems” 46th IEEE PVSC Proceedings, 2019

Allison Perna , Elizabeth K. Grubbs , Rakesh Agrawal and Peter Bermel “Design Considerations for Agrophotovoltaic Systems: Maintaining PV Area with Increased Crop Yield” 46th IEEE PVSC Proceedings, 2019

Zhao, X.; Deshmukh, S. D.; Rokke, D. J. ; Zhang, G.; Wu, Z.; Miller, J. T.; Agrawal, R. “Investigating Chemistry of Metal Dissolution in Amine–Thiol Mixtures and Exploiting It toward Benign Ink Formulation for Metal Chalcogenide Thin Films” Chemistry of Materials (2019) 31, 15, 5674-5682

M. Ryyan Khan, Enas Sakr, Xingshu Sun, Peter Bermel , and Muhammad A. Alam “Ground sculpting to enhance energy yield of vertical bifacial solar farms” Applied Energy (2019) 241, 592-598

Dario Narducci, Peter Bermel , Bruno Lorenzi, Ning Wang, Kazuaki Yazawa “Hybrid and Fully Thermoelectric Solar Harvesting” Published by Springer International Publishing AG (2018)