Matt LawAssistant Professor, Chemistry Joint Appointment, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science |
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Research Interests |
Polymer, Materials, Nanoscience; Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics; Inorganic and Organometallic | |
| URL | Law Group Website | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Sloan Research Fellow, 2013 Distinguished Assistant Professor for Research at UC Irvine, 2012 Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, 2010 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, 2006 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator, 2005 ITRI Research Center Fellow, 2005 & 2006 |
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| Appointments | Postdoctoral Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), 2006-2008 | |
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Research Abstract |
Nanomaterials offer great potential to deliver breakthroughs in the efficiency, cost and scalability of devices that produce electricity or fuels from sunlight. Our laboratory develops solar energy conversion and storage devices built from 0D, 1D and 2D nanoscale materials, integrating materials synthesis and fundamental opto-electronic characterization with device fabrication, testing, modeling and optimization. We currently have projects on the following topics: 1. earth-abundant thin-film photovoltaics, including iron pyrite 2. quantum dot solar cells 3. photoelectrochemical water splitting and solar fuels 4. synthesis and assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals, nanorods and nanowires 5. surface chemistry of nanomaterials |
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| Publications |
Hu, J., Zhang, Y. N., Law, M., Wu, R. Q. Increasing the band gap of iron pyrite by alloying with oxygen. JACS 134, 13216-13219 (2012). |
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Berry, N., Cheng, M., Perkins, C. L., Limpinsel, M., Hemminger, J. C., Law, M. Atmospheric-pressure chemical vapor deposition of iron pyrite thin films. Advanced Energy Materials 2, 1124-1135 (2012). |
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Hu, J., Zhang, Y. N., Law, M., Wu, R. Q. First-principles studies of the electronic properties of native and substitutional anionic defects in bulk iron pyrite. Physical Review B 85, 085203 (2012). |
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Zhang, Y. N., Hu, J., Law, M., Wu, R. Q. The effect of surface stoichiometry on the band gap of the pyrite FeS2(100) surface. Physical Review B 85, 085314 (2012). |
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Ihly, R., Tolentino, J., Liu, Y., Gibbs, M., Law, M. The photothermal stability of PbS quantum dot solids. ACS Nano 5, 8175-8186 (2011). |
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Liu, Y., Tolentino, J., Gibbs, M., Ihly, R., Perkins, C. L., Liu, Y., Crawford, N., Hemminger, J. C., Law, M. PbSe quantum dot field-effect transistors with air-stable electron mobilities above 7 cm2 V-1 s-1. Nano Letters, ASAP (2013). |
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Choi, S. G., Hu, J., Abdallah, L. S., Limpinsel, M., Zhang, Y. N., Zollner, S., Wu, R. Q., Law, M. Pseudodielectric function and critical point energies of iron pyrite. Physical Review B 86, 115207 (2012). |
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Liu, Y., Gibbs, M., Perkins, C. L., Zarghami, M. H., Bustamante, Jr., J., Law, M. Robust, functional nanocrystal solids by infilling with atomic layer deposition. Nano Letters 11, 5349-5355 (2011). |
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Seefeld, S., Limpinsel, M., Liu, Y., Farhi, N., Zhang, Y. N., Berry, N., Kwon, Y. J., Perkins, C. L., Hemminger, J. C., Wu, R. Q., Law, M. Iron pyrite thin films synthesized from an Fe(acac)3 ink. JACS, ASAP (2013). |
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Puthussery, J., Seefeld, S., Berry, N., Gibbs, M., Law, M. Colloidal iron pyrite (FeS2) nanocrystal inks for thin film photovoltaics. JACS, 133, 716-719 (2011). |
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Liu, Y., Gibbs, M., Puthussery, J., Gaik, S., Ihly, R., Hillhouse, H. W., Law, M. Dependence of carrier mobility on nanocrystal size and ligand length in PbSe nanocrystal solids. Nano Letters 10, 1960-1969 (2010). |
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Zarghami, M. H., Liu, Y., Gibbs, M., Gebremichael, E., Webster, C., Law, M. p-Type PbSe and PbS quantum dot solids prepared with short-chain acids and diacids. ACS Nano 4, 2475-2485 (2010). |
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Law, M., Beard, M. C., Choi, S., Luther, J. M., Hanna, M. C., Nozik, A. J. Determining the internal quantum efficiency of PbSe nanocrystal solar cells with the aid of an optical model Nano Letters 8, 3904-3910 (2008). |
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Luther, J. M., Law, M., Song, Q., Reese, M. O., Beard, M. C., Ellingson, R. C., Nozik, A. J. Schottky solar cells based on colloidal nanocrystal films Nano Letters 8, 3488-3492 (2008). |
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| Grants | DOE SunShot | |
| NSF SOLAR | ||
| DOE Early Career | ||
| DOE EFRC | ||
| Research Centers | Irvine Center for Solar Energy | |
| Laboratory for Electron and X-ray Instrumentation | ||
| Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP) | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5535 | |
| Last updated | 03/02/2013 | |