Professor wins grant

Lei Zhai, of the NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry at the University of Central Florida won a grant from Scialog for Investigating Charge Transport and Recombination in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics with Conjugated Polymer Columnar Structures on Graphene.

Zhai was awarded $100,000 to do groundbreaking research in solar energy conversion.

Scialog seeks to accelerate the work of 21st-century transformational science through funding research, intensive dialog and community building. Scialog has been conceived as a research grant program emphasizing annual meetings and the opportunity, encouragement and expectation to form cross-disciplinary teams.

The Scialog process will be guided by a panel of nationally recognized scientists chosen from the research, scholarly and science-policy communities.