Clean Energy for Green Industry

Integrative Graduate Education and Research TraineeshipWhat is CGI? Events

Outreach

Research Highlights

Collaborations

Contact informationWebsite: http://cleanenergy.ucla.edu

Hybrid nanopillar organic polymer photovoltaics:Josh Shapiro from Electrical Engineering and Jessica Wang from Chemistry

Sustainability Networking NightOpen HousesNew Student MixersBrown Bag SeminarsVolunteer participation at California Clean Innovation

(CACI) ConferenceIntellectual property negotiation exerciseQuarterly Seminar and Internal SymposiumSpring Inter-IGERT workshop (in planning)

CNSI outreach Teaching nanoscience demonstrations to high school teachers and providing them with

supplies necessary to teach their students in the classroomSolar cells, water filtration, nanobatteries (in development)Weblink: http://cnsi.ctrl.ucla.edu/nanoscience

EnGen RoadshowExplanations the different types of renewable and non-renewable electricity generationPresented in to classes of high school studentsHands-on demonstrations

Governor’s Global Climate SummitNational NSF Annual IGERT Project MeetingNavigating the American Carbon World conferencePort Tech ExpoClean Tech Los Angeles IncubatorUC Energy and Environmental Economics Summer School

Contest between CGI fellows to propose the best collaborative research projectWinners received a small grant to help get the project started

Winners:Waste microbial fuel cell:

Rita Blaik from Materials Science and Engineering and Benjamin Feinberg from Civil and Environmental Engineering

Designed to train Ph.D. scientists and engineers for leadership roles in the clean energy sector through integrated research, education and service.

CGI addresses the urgent societal challenge of meeting increasing energy needs without further negatively affecting the environment

Program features include:Clean energy lecture, laboratory and seminar-based curriculumInternships or international experienceBusiness development and small company opportunitiesCommunity involvement activities in K-12

Omar Asensio: Motivating energy conservation: a large-scale behavioral study

Leland Smith: Electrophoretic deposition to make carbon nanotube electrodes for supercapacitors

David Watts: Silicon nanowire anodes for lithium ion batteries

Nick Birch: Examination of the intersection of business strategy and environmental policy

Ian McKinley: Waste heat harvesting with pyroelectiric materials using the Olsen cycle

Amy Ferreira: A semiconducting polymer gel for water processable organic solar cells

Igor Bogorad: Redesigning cellular metabolism for new boundaries for new bioproducts

Brian Keck: Self-assembled mesoporous materials for photocatalysis

Joshua Shapiro: Nanowire fabrication for solar cell applications