SPECS 2025 Annual Meeting
In February of 2025 RASEI hosted the 2025 SPECS Annual Meeting, bringing together researchers from across the nation to discuss recent updates and plan future research.
The Center for Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems, or SPECS, is a US Department of Energy funded Energy Frontiers Research Center. The focus of SPECS is to understand and develop organic polymers, so called soft materials, that can be used in transporting electrons, for applications in batteries, electronics, solar energy harvesting, and thermoelectrics.
Each year members of the Center, which include researchers from seven institutions across the United States, come together to discuss recent research discoveries and brainstorm new ideas to drive the field forward. Participants at this years meeting included representatives from CU Boulder, NREL, The University of Arizona, Emory University, University of Kentucky, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Stanford University.
The two day meeting was a great opportunity for the community to build relationships across the different institutes, present their research, and develop new ideas for future directions.Ìý