Garry Rumbles - Research Fellow

phone: 303-384-6502
email: Garry_Rumbles@nrel.gov
At NREL since 2001

Primary Research Interests

Photoconversion processes in nanostructured materials:

Conjugated polymers, colloidal quantum dots, single-wall carbon nanotubes
Electronic communication between colloidal quantum dots assembled with genetically engineered proteins
Spectroscopy of single-wall carbon nanotubes
Fundamental photophysics in excitonic solar cells
Photoinduced electron transfer between single-wall carbon nanotubes and conjugated polymers.

1984	Ph.D. Molecular Photochemistry; University of London, U.K.
1980	B.Sc (hons); Chemistry with Electronics; University of Southampton, U.K.

1995	Royal Society of Chemistry (CSci, CChem, FRSC)
1988	American Chemical Society

2001	Scientist, NREL
2001	Visiting Professor, Imperial College, London, U.K.
1999–2001	Sabbatical scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado
1989–2001	Lecturer, senior lecturer, reader; Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, U.K.
1987–1989	Postdoctoral researcher; Prof. David Phillips; Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, London, U.K.
1985–1987	Postdoctoral researcher; Prof. Edward K.C.Lee; University of California at Irvine.
1984–1985	Postdoctoral Researcher; Prof. George Atkinson; University of Arizona, Tucson.

Scholes, G.D.; Rumbles, G., "Excitons in nanoscale systems," Nature Materials, 5, 683–696 (2006).
Jones, M.; Engtrakul, C.; Metzger, W.K.; Ellingson, R.J.; Nozik, A.J.; Heben, M. .; Rumbles, G., "Analysis of photoluminescence from solubilized single-walled carbon nanotubes," Physical Review B 71(11),115426 (2005).
Ding, S.Y.; Jones, M.; Tucker, M.P.; Nedeljkovic, J.M.; Wall, J.; Simon, M.N.; Rumbles, G.; Himmel, M.E., "Quantum dot molecules assembled with genetically engineered proteins," Nano Letters 3(11), 1581–1585 (2003).
Scholes, G.D.; Larsen, D.S.; Fleming, G.R.; Rumbles, G.; Burn, P.L., "Origin of line broadening in the electronic absorption spectra of conjugated polymers: Three-pulse-echo studies of MEH-PPV in toluene," Physical Review B 61(20), 13670–13678 (2000).
Clark, J.L.; Rumbles, G., "Laser cooling in the condensed phase by frequency up-conversion," Physical Review Letters 76(12), 2037–2040 (1996).
Samuel, I.D.W.; Rumbles, G.; Collison, C.J., "Efficient Interchain Photoluminescence in a High-Electron-Affinity Conjugated Polymer," Physical Review B 52(16), 11573–11576 (1995).

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