| LCI News |
July 9, 2008 |
Congratulations to Chris Bailey, a CPIP Ph.D. student planning to graduate this August, for receiving a National Research Council (NRC) research associateship. This associateship will provide postdoctoral funding for his work at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in Dayton, Ohio.
This fellowship (only available to national laboratories) required a 3000 word proposal of his proposed research at the government laboratory titled, "Controlling the surface alignment and phase separation of photoactive discotic liquid crystal mixtures for the development of more efficient organic photovoltaic devices". He plans to use mixtures of different organic molecules that form columnar liquid crystal phases to improve performance of organic photovoltaics.
He’ll be working with his advisor, Dr. Michael Durstock and Dr. Timothy Bunning. The funding is guaranteed for two years with a possible extension of a third year.
More information can be found at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/rap/