Arthur J. Nozik
Arthur J. Nozik is a Research Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and a Fellow Emeritus at the CU-NREL Joint Institute for Renewable and Sustainable Energy (RASEI), both at the University of Colorado, Boulder; he is also a Senior Research Fellow, Emeritus at the U.S DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden CO. Nozik has been Director of the Colorado Collaboratory for Renewable Energy-- Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (2007-2012), and from 2007-2012 Associate Director of a Joint Los Alamos National Lab/NREL Energy Frontier Research Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion. Nozik received his BChE in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1959 and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Yale University in 1967.
Nozik's research interests include size quantization and hot carrier effects in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and nanostructures, including multiple exciton generation (MEG) from a single photon; the applications of unique quantum effects in nanostructures to advanced approaches for greatly enhanced solar photon conversion efficiencies to electricity and solar fuels; photogenerated carrier relaxation dynamics in various semiconductor structures; photoelectrochemistry of semiconductor-molecule interfaces; photoelectrochemical energy conversion, photocatalysis; optical, magnetic and electrical properties of solids; and Mössbauer spectroscopy.
He has published over 241 papers (h-factor = 101 with 52,000 citations) and book chapters in these fields, written or edited 6 books, holds 11 U.S. patents, and has delivered over 387 invited talks at universities, conferences, and symposia. He has received many awards and honors in chemical physics/solar energy research including election in 2024 to the American Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Arts and Sciences, the 2016 Wilbur Cross Medal of the Yale Graduate School; the 2008 Eni Award (from the President of Italy); the 2013 Heinz Gerischer Award of the Electrochemical Society; the 2011 Esselen Award (at Harvard University) for Chemistry in the Public Interest from the American Chemical Society, the Research Award of the U.N. Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization, and the Thomson Reuters (Clariyate Analytica) Highly Cited Researcher Designation in 2014 in Chemistry and in 2018 in Physics.
Nozik was a Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry for 12 years and has served on the editorial boards of many journals. A Special Festschrift Issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry honoring Nozik’s scientific career appeared in a December 2006 issue and a special Research Symposium was held in his honor at the University of Colorado in 2016. Nozik is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Chemistry; he is also a member of the American Chemical Society., the Electrochemical Society, the Material Research Society, and Sigma XI.