This program leverages steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopies, as well as photothermal methods to understand mechanisms involving energy transfer, redox, and chemical transformation (i.e. bond-breaking and bond-forming) occurring on the nanosecond to millisecond time scales. Research will involve the development of new functional materials for a variety of Navy relevant problems such as clean energy production (e.g. fuel cells, energy storage devices, electrolyzers, etc), water treatment technologies, photo- and electrocatalysis, plasmonics, etc. Successful candidates should have experience in steady-state and time-resolved photochemistry/photophysics with additional experience in any of the following disciplines: organic/inorganic synthesis and characterization, materials chemistry, electrochemistry. The facilities at the Naval Research Laboratory provides candidates with access to a variety of methodologies including steady-state spectroscopies (UV-vis, fluorescence, IR, Raman), electrochemistry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, NMR, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopies, porosometry, thermal gravimetry analysis, and more.

Additional Benefits

Awardees who reside more than 50 miles from their host laboratory and remain on tenure for at least six months are eligible for paid relocation to within the vicinity of their host laboratory.

A group health insurance program is available to awardees and their qualifying dependents in the United States.