CUNY Ph.D student Illya Nayshevsky won the Best Student Paper in Area 9: Soiling at the IEEE PVSC conference in Washington DC for "Anti-reflective and anti-soiling properties of a KleanBoost™, a superhydrophobic nano-textured coating for solar glass". Co-authors on this paper include: Gil Barahman (CUNY undergraduate at the College of Staten Island, Dr. QianFeng Xu of ARLD and Professor Alan Lyons. The research was done in collaboration with ARLD and funded in part by the NSF I/UCRC Center for MetaMaterials.
