2007 Research Review

The 2007 Research Review focuses on efforts to commercialize NREL's innovations, touching on such technologies as solar cells, biofuels, lithium batteries, hydrogen, and energy-efficient buildings.

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Table of Contents Director's Perspective: Transforming Our Energy Enterprise From Research Discoveries to Market: Five Steps to Commercialization Investing in Energy for the Future Innovation Are Silicon "Quantum Dots" a Key to High-Efficiency Solar Cells? NREL's Research in Bioenergy Science Gets a Boost NREL-Chevron CRADA Cooks Up a Super Fuel Marrying Nanotechnology and Biology to Boost Hydrogen Production Technology Development Squeezing More Sugar from Cellulosic Biomass A Silver Bullet for Organic Solar Cells Product Development NREL Effort Leads to New Solid-State Lithium Battery Company Commercial Demonstration Setting the Foundation for Gigawatt-Scale Renewable Energy Large-Scale Deployment Building New Markets for Energy Efficiency NREL Sows the Seeds for a Thin-Film Solar Cell Bounty