Jeffrey L. Blackburn - Senior Scientist
Jeffrey L. Blackburn graduated from Wake Forest University in 1999 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, and from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003 with a Ph.D in Chemistry. For his dissertation work, Dr. Blackburn performed research at CU, Boulder, with Dr. Carl Koval and at NREL with Dr. Arthur Nozik. Dr. Blackburn performed research on the ultra-fast relaxation and charge transfer processes occurring in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and QD interfaces. Two particular themes were the conditions under which excited-state relaxation could be slowed in QDs by a phonon bottleneck and the nature of charge-transfer processes occurring between QDs and nanocrystalline oxides in a modified Graetzel photovoltaic cell.
After graduating in 2003, Dr. Blackburn undertook a 3-year post-doctoral position working with Dr. Michael Heben at NREL. With Dr. Heben, he first studied the performance of high-surface-area hydrogen adsorbents, which involved synthesizing and characterizing a variety of nanoscale materials such as substitutionally doped carbon nanotubes. His continued interest in solar photochemistry prompted him to explore the optical, vibrational, and transport properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes, with a focus on the intrinsic properties of nanotubes and how those properties are altered by interaction with the surrounding environment and charge-transfer reactions. He became a staff member in 2007 and is now a Senior Scientist leading a group of scientists at NREL working on a variety of fundamental and applied research topics.
Research Interests
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Charge separation and transport in nanoscale systems
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Steady state and time-resolved spectroscopy of nanoscale systems
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Photoelectrochemistry
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Synthesis, purification, separation, and characterization of single-walled carbon nanotubes
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Hydrogen storage
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Photovoltaic materials and technologies.
Selected Publications
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Beard, M.C., Blackburn, J.L., Heben, M.J. "Photogenerated Free Carrier Dynamics in Metal and Semiconductor Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Films." Nano Letters, 2008, 8, 4238.
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Blackburn, J.L., Svedruzic, D., McDonald, T.J., Kim, Y-H, King, P.W., Heben, M.J. "Raman Spectroscopy of Charge Transfer Interactions Between Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes and [FeFe] hydrogenase. Dalton Transactions, 2008, 40, 5454.
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Blackburn, J.L., Barnes, T.M., Beard, M.C., Kim, Y-H, Tenent, R.C., McDonald, T.J., To, B., Coutts, T.J., Heben, M.J. Transparent Conductive Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Networks with Precisely Tunable Ratios of Semiconducting and Metallic Nanotubes." ACS Nano, 2008, 2, 1266.
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Blackburn, J.L., McDonald, T.J., Metzger, W.K., Engtrakul, C., Rumbles, G., Heben, M.J. "Protonation Effects on the Branching Ratio in Photoexcited Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Dispersions." Nano Letters, 2008, 8, 1047.
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McDonald, T.J., Svedruzic, D., Kim, Y-H, Blackburn, J.L., Zhang, S.B., King, P.W., Heben, M.J. "Wiring-up Hydrogenase with Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters, 2007, 7, 3528."
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