Peter Green

In his role as deputy laboratory director for Science and Technology, Green is responsible for NREL’s science and research goals, strengthening the laboratory’s core capabilities, and enhancing NREL’s research portfolio. In addition, he oversees the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, NREL-university interactions, and the postdoctoral research program.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithica, NY (1985)
• MS, Cornell University, Ithica, NY (1983)
• BA Physics, Hunter College, New York, NY (1977 – 1981)

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

• Materials Research Society (MRS)
• American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)
• American Ceramics Society (ACeRS)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Neutron Scattering Society of America
• National Society Of Black Physicists

RESEARCH AREAS

Green Group Laboratory for Complex Materials and Thin Film Research

Enabled by molecular design principles, a new generation polymers and polymer-based materials have been created for diverse technological applications that include: batteries, organic solar cells, nonvolatile memory, functional coatings and gas separation membranes and wearable fabrics with sensors. A primary goal is to make devices smaller, more efficient, and smarter. Despite the success, important challenges limit full realization
of the promise of polymers. These challenges include understanding how the physical properties, and morphological structures, of polymers deviate from bulk when confined to increasingly smaller dimensions (nanometers to tens of nanometers).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• P. Veers et al. Grand Challenges in the Science of Wind Energy, SCIENCE, 366,
  443 (2019).
• J.K. Wenderott, P.F. Green “Self-assembled Monolayers at the Conjugated
  Polymer/Electrode Interface: Implications for Charge Transport and Band-Bending
  Behavior” ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, ACS Appl. Mater.
  Interfaces, 2018, 10 (25), pp 21458–21465
• Da Seul Yang, David Bilby, Kyeongwoon Chung, Jill K. Wenderott, Jacob Jordahl, Bo Hyun
  Kim, Joerg Lahann, Peter F. Green, and Jinsang Kim, “Work Function Modification via
  Combined Charge-Based Through-Space Interaction and Surface Interaction,” ADV.
  MATER. INTERFACES, 2018, 5, 1800471.
• J.K. Wenderott, A. Raghav, M. Shtein, P.F. Green, S. Satapathi “Local
  Optoelectronic Characterization of Solvent Annealed Lead-free Bismuth-based
  Perovskite Films” LANGMUIR, 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01003
• W.A. Chapkin, J.K. Wenderott, P.F. Green, A.I. Taub “Length dependence of
  electrostatically induced carbon nanotube alignment” CARBON, 2018, 131, p:275.