Ohio State Joins $42 Million DOE Project for Innovative Buildings Research

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February 22, 2019

By Olivia Smith

The Ohio State University was named among the funding recipients in a recently announced U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) $42 million project to support innovative residential and commercial building technologies for energy efficiency.

As part of the overall program, Ohio State Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Hongping Zhao is set to lead an almost $600,000 project for the research proposal “High Efficiency InGaN Light Emitting Diodes (LED) emitting Green, Amber and Beyond.”

Zhao arrived at Ohio State in 2017 as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

According to DOE, buildings use 75 percent of the nation’s electricity and account for 40 percent of its overall energy use.

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Olivia Smith is a student communications assistant at the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State.