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Brian A. Gregg - Principal Scientist

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phone: 303-384-6635
email: Brian.Gregg@nrel.gov
At NREL since 1990

Research Interests

  • Photoconversion processes in organic semiconductors
  • Design and synthesis of organic materials for solar energy conversion
  • Liquid crystalline semiconductors
  • Energy transfer and exciton quenching
  • Interfacial carrier recombination rates Other processes for producing, storing or saving energy.

Education

1984–1988 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin with Marye Anne Fox and Allen J. Bard; Topic: Molecular Engineering for Solar Energy Conversion
1978–1980 B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Oregon 
1971–1973  Studied Physics at Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Previous Experience

1988–1990

Postdoctoral research with Adam Heller at University of Texas at Austin; Topic: Enhanced Amperometric Biosensors

1980–1984

Engineer in the Display Research Group, Tektronix, Inc.; Topic: Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Displays 

1974–1977

Research Technician, Universitäts Kinder Klinik, West Berlin; Topic: Development of a Breath-Based Glucose Tolerance Test


Selected Publications

  1. Gregg, B.A., "Transport in charged Defect-Rich ?-Conjugated Polymers," J. Phys. Chem. C 113, 5899-5901, 2009.
  2. Gregg, B.A., Chen, S.G., Cormier, R.A., "Coulomb Forces and Doping in Organic Semiconductors," invited review,  Chem. Mater. 16, 4586-4599, 2004.
  3. Gregg, B.A., "Interfacial Processes in the Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell," invited review, Coord. Chem. Rev. 248, 1215-1224, 2004.
  4. Gregg, B.A., "Excitonic Solar Cells," invited feature article, J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 4688-4698, 2003.
  5. Gregg, B.A., Cormier, R.A., "Doping Molecular Semiconductors: n-Type Doping of a Liquid Crystal Perylene Diimide," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 7959-7960, 2001.
  6. Bechinger, C., Ferrere, S., Zaban, A., Sprague, J., Gregg, B.A. "Photoelectrochromic Windows and Displays," Nature 383, 608-610, 1996.

NREL Publications

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Other Team Members

Arthur J. Nozik

Matthew C. Beard

Matt Bergren

Helen E. Chappell

David C. Coffey

Smita Dayal

Randy J. Ellingson

Andrew J. Ferguson

Arthur J. Frank

Jianbo Gao

Brian A. Gregg

Alexander W Hains

Adam F. Halverson

Hugh W. Hillhouse

Roberta Hood

Barbara Hughes

Song-Rim Jang

Justin C. Johnson

Allison Kanarr

Soon Hyung Kang

Jae-Hun Kim

Jin Young Kim

Nikos Kopidakis

Ziqi Liang

Aaron Midgett

Nathan R. Neale

Matthew T. Rawls

Thomas H. Reilly III

Garry Rumbles

Octavi Escala Semonin

Danielle K. Smith

Jao van de Lagemaat

Michael Woodhouse

Kai Zhu