Rice University Professor, Natcore Co-Founder Honored
at United Nations
Red Bank, N.J. - (October 28, 2011) - Prof. Andrew R. Barron, a scientific co-founder of Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V; NXT; NTCXV.PK), has received the prestigious World Technology Award for Materials presented by the World Technology Network in association with Time magazine, Fortune, CNN, Science/AAAS, and Technology Review. Announced on October 26 at United Nations headquarters in New York City, this award includes Barron in a group of organizations and individuals whose work is the most innovative and impactful in the world.
Prof. Barron is the Charles W. Duncan, Jr.-Welch Chair of
Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at Rice
University, as well as a visiting Professor at the
University of Wales. He was the inaugural recipient of the
prestigious Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research
from the Welch foundation and is the first Prince of Wales
Visiting Innovator. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of
Chemistry
Before joining the Rice faculty in 1995, Dr. Barron
received his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in
chemistry from the Imperial College of Science and
Technology in London, performed postdoctoral work at the
University of Texas at Austin, and served on the faculty at
Harvard University.
Prof. Barron's work on liquid phase deposition is at
the heart of Natcore's businesses, particularly in the
photovoltaic area. It is the critical component in
Natcore's program that aims to double the efficiency of
solar cells and to halve their cost.
Prof. Barron was one of six finalists for the World
Technology Award for Materials. The others were Michael
Haag, Universal Nanotech Corp.; Evelyn Hu, Harvard School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Michelle Khine,
University of California, Irvine; Werner Kuhr, ZettaCore,
Inc.; and Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University.
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