EFRC News

Stories of Discovery & Innovation: Scientists Create World’s Smallest Battery

Effort yields insights that could improve battery performance. This work, featured in the Office of Science’s Stories of Discovery & Innovation, was supported by Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES), an EFRC led by Gary Rubloff at the University of Maryland.

May 2011 EFRC Newsletter

NPR's Science Friday discussed lighting economics with Sandia National Laboratory's EFRC

Jerry Simmons, director of the EFRC for Solid-State Lighting Science at Sandia National Laboratory, discussed the economics of LED lighting on the September 10th edition of NPR's Science Friday. The story was also covered by Scientific American, The Economist, and The New York Times.

Notre Dame EFRC featured during nationally televised football half-time show

NBC aired a video feature of the EFRC Materials Science of Actinides, directed by Peter Burns at Notre Dame, during the half-time of the November 21, 2009 Notre Dame football game.

Associated Press Reports On The SNL EFRC

Sandia wants to improve the world's lighting by the Associated Press highlights the work of the Sandia National Laboratories EFRC for Solid State Lighting Science directed by Jerry Simmons. The story was picked up by over 100 news agencies including ABC News, Forbes, and The New York Times.

President Obama Visits MIT EFRC

President Obama spoke with Marc Baldo, director of the Center for Excitonics, and EFRC member Vladimir Bulovic about their clean energy research during his visit to MIT.