Wei You, Ph.D., an assistant professor of chemistry in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $75,000 DuPont Young Professor grant.
You is one of only 17 researchers from the United States, China, Spain and India to be chosen for the award this year.
You’s research includes work in the field of organic photovoltaics, solar cells that are thinner and more flexible than traditional silicon-based solar cells.
You will use the three-year grant to explore new materials and ways of fabricating photovoltaic cells, with the aim of creating high efficiency, low-cost cells that use sunlight to generate energy.
The DuPont program, which began in 1967, is designed to provide start-up assistance to promising young and untenured research faculty working in areas of interest to DuPont’s long-term business. It recognizes original research in chemistry, biofuels, miniaturization applications for electronics and medicine, structure and function of proteins, nanocomposites, studies in earth science and climate change.
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