David’s current activities at the national Renewable Energy Laboratory are in the areas of the general class of defective transition metal oxides including high temperature superconductors, LiTMO2 rechargeable Li battery materials, ferroelectric materials, transparent conducting oxides and electrochromic materials. Another focus of his work is on the development of new nanomaterials for organic electronics and as biofilters etc.. David earned his B.S., at Colorado School of Mines (Mineral Engineering Chemistry) and his Ph.D. at MIT (Inorganic Chemistry).