Thenew grant will fund a five-year project, headed by chemistry professorSaiful Islam, that aims to help to spur design of the next generation of solarcells, lithium batteries, thermoelectrics and fuel cells.
“Developingnew sustainable materials holds the key to cheaper and more efficient solarcells for homes and rechargeable batteries for electric cars, which will helpreduce carbon emissions,” says Islam.
“Materialsperformance lies at the heart of the development of green energy technologies,and computational methods now play a vital role in modelling and predicting theatomic-scale properties of novel materials.”
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