NM EPSCoR Archived News 2005

A Better Sun Trap: NMSU is Inventing an Alternative, Plastic Solar Panel

October 24, 2005

Seamus Curran was featured on the cover of The Albuquerque Journal, Business Outlook Section on October 24, 2005.

Seamus Curran, a physicist at New Mexico State University , was a member of a research team that announced at the Santa Fe Workshop on Nanoengineered Materials and Macro-Molecular Technologies the “breakthrough” of achieving a solar energy efficiency level of 5.2 percent with organic solar cells. That level of energy conversion has been difficult to reach for researchers of organic solar technology, with many of them hitting about 3 to 4 percent. NM EPSCoR provided start-up funds for Dr. Curran. Dr. Curran used much of these start-up funds to purchase an Aurora-3 Near Field Scanning Optical Microscope and a Renishaw Raman Spectrometer as part of a state of the art laboratory. This laboratory has been used as the primary location of the fuel cell research.

From sources as diverse as newspaper archives, transportation ledgers and religious observances, the researchers have amassed 150 years of lake and river ice records spanning the Northern Hemisphere.

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NM EPSCoR Faculty Member Dr. Jeffrey Brinker in the Top One Percent of Increase in Materials Paper Citations

October 2005

According to a recently published in-cites analysis, the work of Dr. C. Jeffrey Brinker achieved the highest percent increase in total citations in the field of Chemistry from the first (January 1995-February 2005) to the second (January 1995-April 2005) bimonthly updates to the ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product.
New Mexico EPSCoR Program is funded in part by the National Science Foundation award EPS-#0447691 and the State of New Mexico. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.