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Harvard students share thoughts on environmental challenges
Gordon Group Eliza Spear speaks on energy and greenhouse-gas emissions. By Alvin Powell For many, thinking about the world’s environmental future brings concern, even outright alarm. There have been, after all, decades of increasingly strident warnings by...
A treasured colleague
Harvard honors Professor Roy Gordon's legacy with a new endowed title By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy Roy Gordon can no longer leave Harvard University. Though he will choose to retire and depart at some point in the future, when he does, his name will remain...
A captain for our planet
How Christina Chang shifted from cold showers to tech development in her quest for a more sustainable world. By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy As a kid, Christina Chang was already a mini-sustainability activist. She recycled and reused. She turned lights off...
Defending breakthrough research
Harvard Gazette In the late 1990s, computer-chip makers were facing a Moore’s Law dead end, and Harvard chemist Roy Gordon thought he could help. The famous dictum said that transistor density on a computer chip would double every two years. Gordon knew...
New Reagents For Atomic Layer Deposition
By Mitch Jacoby Tailored ALD precursors form atomically thin layers of metals, dielectrics, and other compounds DISAPPEARING ACT One way to shrink the nanosized wires (cross sections shown here) that interconnect electronic circuit components is to...
New Organic Flow Battery Brings Decomposing Molecules Back to Life
By Leah Burrows After years of making progress on an organic aqueous flow battery, Harvard University researchers ran into a problem: the organic anthraquinone molecules that powered their ground-breaking battery were slowly decomposing over time...
Gordon and Aziz accept the 2019 Eni Award
Collaborators designed a new way to store massive amounts of energy. On Thursday, October 10, Roy Gordon and Michael Aziz received a 2019 Eni Award for Innovation in Energy during a ceremony held at the Palazzo del Quirinale in Italy. Every year since...
Organic Mega Flow Battery transcends lifetime, voltage thresholds
By Leah Burrows To sustain human civilization in the future, clean energy sources must be harnessed to replace the fossil fuels that are now polluting our atmosphere. Solar and wind energy can supply all the necessary energy. However, storage will be...
Solar Cell Research Funding from Harvard's CCSF
With funding from Harvard University's Climate Change Solutions Fund (CCSF), Professor Roy Gordon has received an award for research that will focus on lowering the costs of solar energy, developing thin-film technology by depositing vapors on ordinary...