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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...