Hugh W. Hillhouse - Sabbatical Visitor

Hugh W. Hillhouse is currently a Visiting Scholar at NREL working with Arthur Nozik and Matt Beard on high-efficiency solar energy conversion with quantum dots and quantum wires. Dr. Hillhouse is on sabbatical leave from Purdue University where he is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. Before joining Purdue, he completed his Ph.D. with Michael Tsapatsis and Jan van Egmond at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was an NSF International Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Dr. Hillhouse’s research interests lie at the nexus of nanotechnology and solar energy conversion. His research group at Purdue has developed new methods to analyze and interpret grazing-incidence, small-angle scattering from nanostructured films and new methods to control the self-assembly of nanostructured films. In particular, they have pioneered a nanofabrication pathway that yields novel nanostructured thin films including double-gyroid structured nanoporous insulators, metallic nanowire films, and semiconductor quantum wire films. His current research focuses on development of nanocrystal- and nanowire-based solar energy conversion devices.

Dr. Hillhouse has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and holds two U.S. patents. He is a recipient of Purdue’s Early Career Research Award and the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award; he was recently selected for the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering program.

Selected Publications

1. QJ Guo, SJ Kim, M Kar, WN Shafarman, RW Birkmire, EA Stach, R Agrawal, and HW Hillhouse, “Development of CuInSe₂ Nanocrystal and Nanoring Inks for Low-Cost Solar Cells,” Nano Letters (2008). In press. DOI: 10.1021/nl802042g.
2. VN Urade, TC Wei, MP Tate, JD Kowalski, and HW Hillhouse, "Nanofabrication of Double Gyroid Films," Chemistry of Materials 19, 768 (2007).
3. MP Tate and HW Hillhouse, "General Method for Simulation of 2D GISAXS Intensities for Any Nanostructured Film Based on a Discrete Fourier Transform Implementation of the Distorted Wave Born Approximation," J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 7645 (2007).
4. TC Wei and HW Hillhouse, "Mass Transport and Electrode Accessibility through Periodic Self-Assembled Nanoporous Silica Thin Films," Langmuir 23, 5689 (2007).

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