Nathan Neale

Senior Scientist and Group Manager - Interfacial Materials Chemistry

Nathan.Neale@nrel.gov
303-384-6165
Orcid ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5654-1664
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Nate Neale is a senior scientist and the Interfacial Materials Chemistry group manager at NREL. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry with a political science minor from Middlebury College in 1998 and his doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003, where he was trained by Professor T. Don Tilley as an organometallic chemist. His postdoctoral work from 2003–2006 at NREL focused on dye-sensitized solar cells under the tutelage of Arthur J. Frank . His development continued at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as an NREL subcontractor working on new schemes for photoelectrochemical water splitting with Arthur J. Nozik. He transitioned to NREL as a staff scientist in 2008. Nate’s research leverages his molecular chemistry background and focuses on developing novel wet chemical and gas-phase approaches to tailor the compositional structure and surface chemistry of nanostructured inorganic semiconductors and related materials for photocatalysis, solar fuels, and electrochemical energy storage.