# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 12 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 12 results [### Xian Gong's Thesis Defense February 23, 2022 ](/news/xian-gongs-thesis-defense-february-23-2022) June 15, 2022 ![Xian defense](/sites/g/files/omnuum7801/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/gordon/files/xian_defense_pic_03.jpg?itok=6b2_AGiL) [### Rhino Volleyball with the Aziz and Gordon Groups ](/news/rhino-volleyball-aziz-and-gordon-groups) August 04, 2021 ![Rhino](/sites/g/files/omnuum7801/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/gordon/files/volleyball_4.jpg?itok=W1hG0m-j) [### Min Wu's Thesis Defense, Congratulations! ](/news/min-wus-thesis-defense-congratulations) April 29, 2021 ![Min](/sites/g/files/omnuum7801/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/gordon/files/min_defense.png?itok=rTcLSYHm) [### Harvard students share thoughts on environmental challenges ](/news/harvard-students-share-thoughts-environmental-challenges) May 18, 2021 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... ![Eliza Spear](/sites/g/files/omnuum7801/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/gordon/files/earth_day_03-768x512_-_eliza.jpg?itok=E5-NgHPL) [### A treasured colleague ](/news/treasured-colleague) July 15, 2020 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... ![Roy_office](/sites/g/files/omnuum7801/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/gordon/files/roy_gordon_in_his_office_sm.jpg?itok=84Oo6l3A) [### A captain for our planet ](/news/captain-our-planet) May 27, 2020 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... ![Christina Chang](/sites/g/files/omnuum7801/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/gordon/files/peru_saving_amazon_rain_forest_harvard_course_square.jpg?itok=3WVRt_dd) [### Defending breakthrough research ](/news/defending-breakthrough-research) June 24, 2016 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... description [### New Reagents For Atomic Layer Deposition ](/news/new-reagents-atomic-layer-deposition) August 17, 2015 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... description [### New Organic Flow Battery Brings Decomposing Molecules Back to Life ](/news/new-organic-flow-battery-brings-decomposing-molecules-back-life) May 25, 2018 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... description [### Gordon and Aziz accept the 2019 Eni Award ](/news/gordon-and-aziz-accept-2019-eni-award) October 15, 2019 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... description [### Organic Mega Flow Battery transcends lifetime, voltage thresholds ](/news/organic-mega-flow-battery-transcends-lifetime-voltage-thresholds) July 23, 2018 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... description [### Solar Cell Research Funding from Harvard's CCSF ](http://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/gordon/files/aqueous_flow_battery_nature5052014_dash.pdf) March 02, 2016 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... description