Member

	Dr. Kenneth Roberts
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Tulsa	Group website
OKPVRI Member	Email: kproberts@utulsa.edu

Dr. Roberts has years of experience developing third-generation photovoltaics. As an analytical chemist, my goal has been to utilize modern characterization methods along with advanced nanotechnology syntheses. To this end, my laboratory has published numerous articles on the use of nanomaterials that can meet the efficiency challenges of the future will being cost-effective and non-toxic. As the Director of the Nanotechnology Institute, and ongoing collaborations with researchers at OU and OSU, I believe the groundwork laid out in my career will make this a highly successful project with rapid turnaround times for results.

Recent Publications

• Kaphle, A., Echeverria, E., McLlroy, D. N., Roberts, K. & Hari, P. Thermo-Optical Properties of Cobalt-Doped Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Nanorods, J Nanosci Nanotechnol, 2019, 19, 3893-3904.
• Smith, W. Caruthers, D. Stewart, P. Hawrylak, and J. Hale, “Network Modeling for Security Analytics,” in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, Oak Ridge, TN, 2016, article no. 22.
• Esmaielpour, H., Whiteside, V. R., Piyathilaka, H. P., Vijeyaragunathan, S., Wang, B., Adcock-Smith, E., Roberts, K. P., Mishima, T. D., Santos, M. B., Bristow, A. D. & Sellers, I. R. Enhanced hot electron lifetimes in quantum wells with inhibited phonon coupling. Sci. Rep. 2018, 8.
• Otanicar, T., Dale, J., Orosz, M., Brekke, N., DeJarnette, D., Tunkara, E., Roberts, K. & Harikumar, P. Experimental evaluation of a prototype hybrid CPV/T system utilizing a nanoparticle fluid absorber at elevated temperatures, Appl. Energy, 2018, 228, 1531-1539.
• Tunkara, E., Drew D., Muni, M., Otanicar, T., Roberts, K.P., Optical properties of colloidal indium tin oxide (ITO) suspended in a thermal fluid, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2018 122(10), pp. 5639-5646

Student Information

Current Graduate Students: 8

Current Undergraduate Students: 5