Project Grant 2230706

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering, under the International Research and Education program (CFDA 47.079), provides $1,499,583 to the University of Vermont for a research partnership with universities in Japan focused on excitonic soft materials for clean energy. The grant establishes a long-term interdisciplinary partnership between the University of Vermont, University of Oklahoma, Yamagata University, and Osaka University in Japan to conduct research on harvesting, storing, and transferring energy in soft electronic materials. The partnership will leverage complementary expertise in synthesis, thin-film growth, structural characterization, and other areas to explore fundamental energy conversion processes in soft materials with potential to enable high-efficiency photovoltaics and scalable solar technologies. A subaward of $TBD is provided to the University of Oklahoma to support its contributions to the collaborative research effort.