Both Drs. Hammond and Harris previously tenured at the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), one of the world’s most respected and advanced solar-photovoltaic research institutions. NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to advance the company’s SolarWindow technology, capable of generating electricity on see-through glass.
“I’m honoured to welcome Dr. Harris and Dr. Hammond to our team,” stated Mr. John A. Conklin, President and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. “Dr. Hammond brings a special blend of organic chemistry and photovoltaic device fabrication experience important to advancing our SolarWindow technology towards commercial production. As a Nuclear Physicist, Patent Agent, and Licensing Executive who’s successfully partnered new technologies with Fortune 5 corporations, Dr. Harris has the depth of technical insight and business expertise that we very much look forward to leveraging.”
Dr. Christopher M. Harris joins New Energy’s Board of Advisors with a proven track record of exploiting novel renewable energy technologies for commercial partnership, joint-venture, and technology and product development. His expertise includes evaluating a technology’s technical strength, building key strategies for advancing product development with commercial partners, and negotiating tactical licensing agreements with public research institutions, private companies, and Fortune 500 corporations.
Meanwhile, Dr. Hammond’s expertise includes the development of coatings for generating electricity and the application of such coatings in the fabrication of photovoltaic device architectures. This combination of skills is important to the advancement of SolarWindow, which makes use of electricity-generating coatings applied to see-through glass surfaces.
Electricity-generating coatings, consisting largely of ‘polymers’, are first designed and subsequently produced by way of synthesis; Dr. Hammond’s experience includes such polymer design and organic synthesis. He also brings skills specific to various systems and methods for applying these coatings to various material surfaces, including high-speed, high-volume industrial processes important to the eventual commercial manufacturing of SolarWindow products.
Organic PV cells
Once electricity-generating polymers are applied to a material surface, the resultant effect is the production of an ‘organic photovoltaic’ cell (OPV). The prospect of SolarWindow products generating electricity on see-through glass is made possible by way of OPV.
Dr. Hammond brings extensive experience in all areas of OPV, the underlying SolarWindow technology, including: the design and synthesis of small molecule and polymeric donor materials, the development of new solution-processed contact materials, the fabrication of OPV devices, large-area device fabrication using various coating methods, and the development of solution-processed flexible and transparent moisture barriers.
New Energy Technologies is also developing MotionPower, roadway systems for generating electricity by capturing the kinetic energy produced by moving vehicles: a patent-pending technology, the subject of 33 US and International patent applications.
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