Wei awarded the 2010 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

“W. David Wei, Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the 2010 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Professor Wei is one of only 32 junior faculty members to receive this award in 2010. The recipients will each receive $5,000 in “seed money” for the 2010-2011 academic year to further their research during the early stages of their careers. Each recipient’s institution also matches the ORAU award with an additional $5,000, making the total prize worth $10,000 for each winner. Professor Wei has received this award for his research into the novel electronic and optical properties of plasmonically active nanomaterials and their implications for solar energy conversion. In an upcoming manuscript, Wei’s research group will describe a quantitative characterization of surface plasmon-enhanced electromagnetic fields on a single Ag nanostructure.”