Faculty
Angela Belcher
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W.M. Keck Professor of Energy BA, Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991 PhD, Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997 Room 76-561A, 77 Mass. Ave.,Cambridge, MA 02139 |
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Research
Angela Belcher is a materials chemist with expertise in biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces and solid-state chemistry. Her work focuses on evolving organisms to build new materials and devices for clean energy, electronics, the environment and medicine. She received the B.S. in Creative Studies and the Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Belcher was awarded the 24th annual MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the 2004 Four Star General Recognition Award. In 2006 she was named Scientific American’s Research Leader of the Year. Her work has been published in many prestigious scientific journals including Science and Nature, and has been reported in the popular press including Fortune, Forbes, Discover, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Selected Publications
“Virus-templated Self-assembled Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Highly Efficient Electron Collection in Photovoltaic Devices,” Nature Nanotechnology 6, 377–384, 2011 (with others).
“Highly Efficient Plasmon-Enhanced Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells through Metal @ Oxide Core-Shell Nanostructure,” ACS Nano 5, 7108-7116, 2011 (with others).
“Biologically Templated Photocatalytic Nanostructures for Sustained Light-driven Water Oxidation,” Nature Nanotechnology 5, 340-4, 2010 (with others).
“Fabricating Genetically Engineered High-Power Lithium Ion Batteries Using Multiple Virus Genes," Science 324, 1051, 2009 (with others).
“Virus Enabled Synthesis and Assembly of Nanowires for Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes,” Science 312, 885-888, 2006 (with others).
