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Yu Huang, Ph.D.Richard B. Kaner, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorMaterials Science and EngineeringCalifornia NanoSystems InstituteDistinguished Professor of ChemistryDistinguished Professor of Materials Scienceand ulty/kanerkaner@chem.ucla.eduProfessor Huang is an Associate Professor in theDepartment of Materials Science and Engineeringat UCLA. She received her B.S. in Chemistry fromUniversity of Science and Technology of China and herPh.D. in Physical Chemistry from Harvard University.Before she joined UCLA, she was a LawrencePostdoctoral Fellow in Lawrence Livermore NationalLabs. At UCLA, Professor Huang and her groupexplore the unique technological opportunities thatresult from the structure and assembly of nanoscalebuilding blocks. Focusing on the molecular level, sheconducts research to unravel the fundamental principlesgoverning nanoscale material synthesis and assembly;and utilizes such principles to design nanostructuresand nanodevices with unique functions and properties toaddress critical challenges in electronics, energy scienceand biomedicine. Recognitions she received include theWorld’s Top 100 Young Innovators, the Sloan Fellowship,the PECASE, DARPA Young Faculty Award and the NIHNew Innovator Award.Richard B. Kaner received a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistryfrom the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 workingwith Prof. Alan MacDiarmid (Nobel Laureate 2000).After carrying out postdoctoral research at the Universityof California, Berkeley, he joined the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1987 as an AssistantProfessor. He was promoted to Associate Professorwith tenure in 1991, became a Full Professor in1993 and a Distinguished Professor in 2012. He haspublished over 275 papers in top peer reviewed journalsand holds 14 U.S. patents with 20 more pending.Professor Kaner has received awards from the Dreyfus,Fulbright, Guggenheim and Sloan Foundations as wellas the Exxon Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry, theBuck-Whitney Research Award, the Tolman Medaland the Award in the Chemistry of Materials from theAmerican Chemical Society for his work on refractorymaterials including new synthetic routes to ceramics,intercalation compounds, superhard metals, grapheneand conducting polymers. He has been elected a Fellowof both the American Association for the Advancementof Science (AAAS) and the Materials Research Society(MRS). Along with appointments in the Departmentsof Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering,Professor Kaner served as the Associate Director ofthe California NanoSystems Institute from 2007-09.Professor Kaner’s teaching has been recognized withthe Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching, theHarriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished TeachingAward and the Gold Shield Faculty Prize for AcademicExcellence.6 UCLA Cleantech & Advanced Materials Partnering Conference

James C. Liao, Ph.D.Qibing Pei, Ph.D.Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Professor and ChairChemical and Biomolecular EngineeringProfessorMaterials Science and Engineeringhttp://www.seas.ucla.edu/ ople/bios/peiqpei@seas.ucla.eduDr. James C. Liao, Ralph M. Parsons FoundationProfessor and Department Chair, Chemical andBiomolecular Engineering of UCLA, is a pioneer inMetabolic Engineering. He received his B.S. degree fromNational Taiwan University and Ph.D. from Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. After working as a researchscientist at Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester,NY, he started his academic career at Texas A&MUniversity in 1990 and moved to UCLA in 1997. Hereceived numerous awards, including Merck Award forMetabolic Engineering (2006), Food, Pharmaceutical,and Bioengineering Division award of American Instituteof Chemical Engineers (AIChE) (2006), CharlesThom Award of the Society for Industrial Microbiology(2008), Marvin Johnson Award of American ChemicalSociety (2009), Alpha Chi Sigma Award of AIChE(2009), James E. Bailey Award of Society for BiologicalEngineering (2009), Presidential Green ChemistryChallenge Award (2010), and the White House“Champion of Change” for innovations in renewableenergy (2012). In 2013, he was elected to the NationalAcademy of Engineering, and was named a co-winnerof the ENI Renewable Energy Prize, bestowed by thePresident of Italy.Qibing Pei is Professor of Materials Science andEngineering, UCLA. He specializes in synthetic polymersand composites for electronic, electromechanical, andphotonic applications, with over 120 peer-reviewedjournal publications. He is the inventor or co-inventorof 39 awarded US patents covering polymer OLEDs,dielectric elastomers with greater than 100% actuatedstrain, light emitting polymers, and related materialsand thin film devices. His current research activitiesinclude synthesis of conjugated polymers, stretchablepolymer electronics, nanostructured composites, polymeractuators and generators. Dr. Pei received a B.S. degreefrom Nanjing University, China, and a Ph.D. from theInstitute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science,Beijing. He was a postdoctoral scientist in LinköpingUniversity, Sweden, a senior chemist 1994-1997 atUNIAX Corporation (now DuPont Display), SantaBarbara, and a senior research engineer 1998-2004 atSRI International, Menlo Park, California. He has been onthe UCLA faculty since 2004. He was named a Fellowof the SPIE in 2012.UCLA Cleantech & Advanced Materials Partnering Conference 7

Laurent Pilon, Ph.D.Gaurav N. Sant, Ph.D.ProfessorMechanical and Aerospace EngineeringAssistant Professor and Edward K. andLinda L. Rice Endowed Chair in Materials ScienceCivil and Environmental Engineeringhttp://www.seas.ucla.edu/ pilonpilon@seas.ucla.eduLaurent Pilon is Professor in the Mechanical andAerospace Engineering Department at UCLA. Hereceived his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering fromPurdue University in 2002. Professor Pilon’s laboratoryfocuses on synthesizing, characterizing, and modelingmaterials for waste heat energy harvesting and energystorage applications. In particular, his team has developedpatent-pending processes and devices to convert wasteheat and/or ambient mechanical energy directly intoelectricity. Professor Pilon is the recipient of the 2005National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the2008 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Awardin Heat Transfer from ASME, and the 2009 YoungScientist Award in Radiative Transfer from the Journal ofQuantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. He waselected Senior Member of SPIE in 2011.8 UCLA Cleantech & Advanced Materials Partnering Conferencehttp://lcc-ucla.comgsant@ucla.eduGaurav Sant earned his BSCE (2006), MSCE (2007)and Ph.D. (2009) in civil engineering from PurdueUniversity and spent a post-doctoral year (2010) at theEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Gaurav’sresearch is focused on the development of sustainablematerials for infrastructure construction, with specialemphasis on reducing the CO2 and energy use impactsof cement and cement-based derivatives in applicationsranging from bridges to buildings. This work whichis supported by federal, state and industrial partnersleverages both experimental and computational platformsto seek cutting-edge solutions to “material’s sustainabilityconcerns” facing the construction industry. The outcomesof this work have been published in over 45 papers ininternational journals and conference proceedings.

Richard Wirz, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorDirector, UCLA Plasma & Space Propulsion LaboratoryDirector, UCLA Energy Innovation cla.eduRichard Wirz is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanicaland Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA andholds a joint appointment in JPL’s Electric PropulsionGroup. He is the Director of the UCLA Plasma & SpacePropulsion Laboratory and the UCLA Energy InnovationLaboratory. His plasma and space related researchfocuses on advanced propulsion concepts and theplasma science relevant to these devices. His energyresearch currently focuses on new approaches to solarthermal energy storage and wind energy capture.UCLA Cleantech & Advanced Materials Partnering Conference 9

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Energy TechnologiesSolarVertical Heterostructures forTransistors, Photodetectors,and Photovoltaic DevicesProfessor Duan and colleagueshave developed a vertical field-effecttransistor (VFET) that enables highcurrent density through the overallsemiconductor area with a high on-offcurrent ratio. Current densities reach2–5 orders of magnitude greater thanthose recently reported for verticaltunneling transistors or barristors.Integrating graphene with solutionprocessible semiconductor materialsto form vertically-stacked devices canlead to new types of low-cost, highperformance transistors, photodetectors,and solar cells.UCLA Case No. 2013-363Lead Inventor: Xiangfeng DuanPatent Status: PendingEnergy solar, Materials manufacturingHydrogen Production by aNovel Thermochemical WaterSplitting CycleProfessor Manousiouthakis andcolleagues have developed athermochemical cycle for decomposingwater into hydrogen and oxygen. Thereare many realizations of this processinvolving a variety of intermediates.Thermal decomposition of water usuallyrequires temperatures greater than2,000 C. This novel thermochemicalcycle can be operated at a relativelylow temperature of 900 C. Due toits lower operating temperatures, thedecomposition can be powered by avariety of energy sources, includingsolar energy. The innovation lies in theoptimization of intermediates, operatingtemperatures, kinetics, heat removaland control of the rate of reaction, andelectricity cogeneration.UCLA Case No. 2005-332Lead Inventor: Vasilios ManousiouthakisPatent Status: Issued – #7,960,063Energy solar thermo/pyroelectricsImproved PhotovoltaicEfficiency in SemiconductingPolymer/Fullerene Solar Cellsthrough Control of FullereneSelf-Assembly and StackingProfessor Tolbert and colleagues haveidentified a self-assembly method forarranging fullerene molecules thatresults in a 4X increase in solar cellenergy conversion efficiency (currentdensity; on average). This techniqueallows more control over the packingof individual molecules to provide forhigher material densities that result inimproved efficiency.UCLA Case No. 2008-662Lead Inventor: Sarah TolbertPatent Status: Pending – PublishedApplication #20090266416Energy solar, MaterialsCarbon Nanotube/NanowireThermo-Photovoltaic CellsProfessor Wang and colleagues havedeveloped three types of thermophotovoltaic (TPVs) cell structuresbased on a particular nanomaterial.The optical and electrical propertiesof these nanotechnology-based TPVscan be tuned during fabrication. Thismakes them suitable for applicationssuch as waste heat harvesting inindustrial manufacturing facilities,high performance-low radiationdevices for space applications, andother devices for next-generationelectrical conversion.UCLA Case No. 2005-603Lead Inventor: Kang WangPatent Status: Issued – #7,985,615Energy solar thermo/pyroelectrics,Materials manufacturingNanoparticle Hybrid Solar CellBased on a CopolymerSelf Assembly ProcessProfessor Wang and colleagueshave devised of a practical, low cost,large-scale production method formultilayered photovoltaic devicefabrication. Hybrid solar cells based onnanocrystals and nanoparticles requirehigh temperature and are expensiveto produce. In this technology, UCLAresearchers developed a copolymertemplate to form the nanoparticle array,which offers versatility in constructionand low cost compared to conventionalthermal annealing and chemicalsynthesis methods. The approachobviates the need for high temperature,which offers advantages for massproduction. The technology has wideapplications for portable devices,displays, modulators, detectors, LEDs,and power stations.UCLA Case No. 2011-206Lead Inventor: Kang WangPatent Status: Patent PendingEnergy solarA Stretchable Organic SolarCell Based on Semi-MetalGraphene/Polymer HybridUsing hybrid polymeric compositesand semi-metal graphene electrodes,UCLA researchers have developed astretchable solar cell that could be usedto conform to various uneven surfaces.The technology has broad applicationsto consumer goods — includingportable electronics and clothing – andinfrastructure development for bothurban and rural areas.UCLA Case No. 2010-670Lead Inventor: Kang WangPatent Status: Patent PendingEnergy solarPolarizing Photovoltaic Deviceand Its Application in LiquidCrystal Displays and TandemSolar CellsProfessor Yang and colleagueshave developed an energy recyclingtechnology called polarizing organicphotovoltaics, which can boost thefunction of the LCD by workingsimultaneously as a polarizer, aphotovoltaic device, and an ambientlight or sunlight photovoltaic panel.urning polarizers into energy-generatingphotovoltaic units recovers energy fromphotons which would be otherwise lost.Compared with their silicon or otherinorganic or organic-inorganic hybridcounterparts, a unique advantage ofthe organic conjugated materials isthat the molecular chains can be easilyreoriented.UCLA Case No. 2010-666Lead Inventor: Yang YangPatent Status: PendingEnergy solar thermo/pyroelectricsUCLA Cleantech & Advanced Materials Partnering Conference 11

Solution Synthesis andDeposition of Kesterite CopperZinc Tin Chalcogenide Filmsfrom Earth Abundant Elementsfor Solar Cell Applicationsbetween CZTS and CdS substitutes.To date, the research team hasdeveloped Cd-free photovoltaicdevices that have achieved conversionefficiencies over 3.5%.Professor Yang and colleagues havedeveloped a solution based methodfor Cu2ZnSnS4-precursor synthesis.Compared to currently-implementedmethods, this method is moreenvironmentally friendly, cheaper toexecute, and provides a powerful toolfor depositing uniform films in chemicalcompositions suitable for large scalesolar cell fabrication.UCLA Case No. 2013-584Lead Inventor: Yang YangPatent Status: PendingEnergy solarUCLA Case No. 2011-410Lead Inventor: Yang YangPatent Status: PendingEnergy solar, Materials manufacturingConjugated Low-BandgapPolymer for Electronic DevicesOrganic photovoltaic devices providean opportunity to utilize solar energyefficiently and at low cost. To harvesta greater spectrum of light, scientistshave sought to reduce the energybandgap of the active material. UCLAresearchers have developed a novellow-bandgap polymer that providesexcellent photovoltaic performance insingle junction devices (PCE 7%).This technology has application toorganic solar cells, tandem solar cells,transparent solar cells, field-effecttransistors, near infrared (NIR) organicphoto-detectors, and NIR organic lightemitting diodes, among others.UCLA Case No. 2013-071Lead Inventor: Yang YangPatent Status: PendingEnergy solar, MaterialsAn Approach to Deposit aCd-Free Buffer Layer forCZTS Solar CellsCu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) absorber materialspoint the way to the next generation ofthin film solar cells for both ecologicallyand economically sustainablephotovoltaics. However, current n-typeemitters or buffer layers, containcadmium sulfide (CdS), a probablehuman carcinogen shown to be toxic.UCLA scientists have developed aCd-free buffer layer on CZTS, whichpreviously has been challenging due toa substantial conduction band offsetMultiple Donor/Acceptor BulkHeterojunction Solar CellsProfessor Yang and colleagues havedeveloped a new device structure fororganic photovoltaics that expandsthe absorption bandwidth andincreases overall device performanceof the organic solar cells. In contrastto multiple junction solar cells, theapproach does not require furtherfabrication steps, thereby mitigatingincreases in manufacturing costand complexity.UCLA Case No. 2013-919Lead Inventor: Yang YangPatent Status: PendingEnergy solarEnergy TechnologiesAlternative fuelsDieselzymes: DirectedEvolution of a More Stable andMethanol Tolerant Lipase forBiodiesel ProductionProfessor Bowie and colleagues havedeveloped a highly stable and methanoltolerant lipase. The engineered lipase(Dieselzyme 4) has 30-fold increasedstability over the wild type enzyme at50 C and 50-fold increased stabilityat high methanol concentrations.The improved methanol tolerance,thermostability, and longevity ofDieselzyme 4 make it easily the mostrobust lipase currently available forbiodiesel production. Unlike manyother lipases, Dieselzyme 4 is easilyexpressed in E. coli, allowing for simplelarge-scale production.UCLA Case No. 2013-299Lead Inventor: James BowiePatent Status: PendingEnergy alternative fuels12 UCLA Cleantech & Advanced Materials Partnering ConferenceA Controllable and RobustCell-Free System forFatty Acid ProductionProfessor Ho and colleagues havedeveloped a system that can producea large amount of fatty acids in shortperiods of time. The unique approachhas the advantage of not relying onexpression systems or living cells,thereby reducing expenses and theoverall complexity of the system. Theresearchers have documented thatthe production rate of fatty acids is anorder of magnitude higher than that oftraditional cell culture-based systems.Fatty acids have a great variety of use inthe health and cosmetic industries andare a well-characterized precursor tobiodiesel and other industrial chemicals.UCLA Case No. 2013-833Lead Inventor: Chih-Ming HoPatent Status: PendingEnergy alternative fuelsEnergy TechnologiesStorage SystemsHigh Capacity Silicide-AirPrimary BatteriesProfessor Duan and colleagueshave developed a novel group

and marketing management roles. He received his . (CMU), a Masters from Cornell University and a . Berkeley, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1987 as an Assistant Professor. He was promot