Nicholas (Nick) Hight-Huf has joined NREL's Solar Photochemistry group under the mentorship of Garry Rumbles and Obadiah Reid to focus on fundamental aspects of charge generation in organic semiconductors. Nick is employing time-resolved techniques including microwave conductivity, transient absorption, and photoluminescence, thermodynamic and kinetic models for the generation of free charge in organic donor-acceptor films, which are being developed. Nick brings experience employing specific spectroscopic and scanning probe characterization techniques to understand the electronics at micro- and nano-structured interfaces to help realize the next generation of materials for energy applications.

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Research Interests

Time-resolved spectroscopy

Interfacial interactions

Solar energy

Education

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst

M.S., Physical Chemistry, University of California Santa Barbara

B.S., Inorganic Chemistry, University of New Hampshire

Featured Work

Copper Bromide Hole Transport Layer for Stable and Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells, ACS Applied Energy Materials (2022)

Stabilization of Three-Particle Excitations in Monolayer MoS 2 by Fluorinated Methacrylate Polymers, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2022)

Polarization-Driven Asymmetric Electronic Response of Monolayer Graphene to Polymer Zwitterions Probed from Both Sides, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2021)

Electronic Tuning of Monolayer Graphene with Polymeric “Zwitterists,” ACS Nano (2021)

Polymer Zwitterions for Stabilization of CsPbBr₃ Perovskite Nanoparticle and Nanocomposite Films, Angewandte Chemie (2020)

Tuning Charge Transport Dynamics Via Clustering of Doping in Organic Semiconductor Thin Films, Nature Communications (2019)

Awards and Honors

William E. McEwen Fellowship Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation, University of Massachusetts Research Fest (2021)

University of California Energy Science and Technology Grant (2011)

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program –Conversion of Energy Through Molecular Platforms Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2008)