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Barbara Hughes - Research Scientist

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phone: 303-384-6667
email: Barbara.Hughes@nrel.gov
At NREL since 2008

Barbara Hughes received a B.S. in Chemistry from Colorado State University in 2005. Her undergraduate research involved spectroscopic characterization of the products formed from the interaction of vanadium(IV) with biologically relevant molecules such as NADH in aqueous media. She received her M.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. At Berkeley, under the direction of research advisor Chris Chang, her research focused on the synthesis and characterization of Smart MRI contrast agents for iron(II)/(III).       

After completing her M.S., she joined the Chemical Sciences and Nanoscience Group at NREL under the direction of Arthur Nozik.  Her work at NREL involves the synthesis and characterization of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals for MEG studies.

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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