A US federal grant for photovoltaic research will create hundreds of academic and industrial jobs.
A US federal grant to fund photovoltaic research is expected to create hundreds of academic and industrial jobs. On 5 April, the US Department of Energy awarded US$57 million to the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), part of the State University of New York at Albany, to support the Photovoltaic Manufacturing Initiative, a partnership between academia and industry that aims to help the nation regain competitiveness in solar technologies. Administrators say the grant will lead to jobs for physicists, materials scientists and chemists, as well as graduate-fellowship opportunities. Pradeep Haldar, a nanoengineer at the CNSE, expects that within five years, large manufacturers will create jobs to take advantage of the college's expertise and technology.
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Boost for solar research. Nature 473, 115 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7345-115c
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7345-115c