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Penn Arts & Sciences Magazine: VIPER's Scientists-In-Training
February 11, 2015
The first goal for most aspiring scientists and engineers is developing a research path—not creating a proposal to pitch to a room full of people. That’s where the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) differs. Read more here.
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Researchers at Penn, Berkeley and Illinois Use Oxides to Flip Graphene Conductivity
February 2, 2015
Prof. of Chemistry Andrew Rappe, Faculty Co-Director for VIPER, has helped show a new way to "dope” graphene, a process necessary for making the 2-D material useful in semiconductor devices. You can read more here.
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Penn and Berkeley Research: Path to New Kinds of Computers with Faster-Switching Ferroelectrics
October 28, 2014
Chemistry's Andrew Rappe, Faculty Co-Director for VIPER, has a new study that could improve materials used in a kind of electronic memory, making it fast enough to be used for computation as well. Read more here.
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Albert Xiao (VIPER '16)
Albert explored the issue of inexpensive efficient solar energy conversion in the context of quantum dot sensitized solar cells. As part of Prof. Christopher B. Murray’s Group, Albert investigated electron transfer rates in CdSe quantum dot sensitized solar cells.