Universities of Stanford, Arizona State & Colorado alongside Sandia National Laboratories and the Molecular Foundry will receive a combined $3.53m under the energy department’s SunShot initiative.
The investments will enable collaborative research at the Department’s Scientific User Facilities which is a national network of facilities providing open access to x-ray sources, accelerators, supercomputers and nanoscale research centers.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu highlighted the growth of the global solar energy market and the role that the American companies were playing to drive lower costs and innovation.
"These collaborative projects announced today harness the immense capabilities of our Scientific User Facilities to invent and deploy new technologies that will strengthen American manufacturing and technical competitiveness," added Chu.
