Speaker Series: Composite Gel Materials for Concurrent Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage in Wearable Electronics with Dr. Arash Takshi.

Name: Speaker Series: Composite Gel Materials for Concurrent Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage in Wearable Electronics with Dr. Arash Takshi.
Start: 2026-02-20T11:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-20T12:30:00-05:00
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Fri, Feb 20, 2026

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EST (GMT-5)

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This talk highlights advances at USF’s Bio-Organic Electronics Lab in creating self-charging electrochemical devices that unite solar energy harvesting and storage. By leveraging conducting polymer–dye composites and PANI-based redox/photoactive gels, we demonstrate photoactive supercapacitors and hybrid thread-shaped devices with strong potential for improved conversion efficiency and capacitance.

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Arash Takshi

Professor

University of South Florida

Dr. Arash Takshi is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and a faculty at the Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) at the University of South Florida. Before joining USF, Dr. Takshi was working as a Research Assistant at the University of Maryland, where he collaborated with a research group to develop an energy harvesting system for wireless sensors. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoc at the University of British Columbia, working on the development of Organic/Bio photovoltaic devices. Dr. Takshi’s PhD project at UBC was on low voltage organic transistors. He has more than ninety publications in scientific journals.

Dr. Takshi’s research group at USF (Organic-Bio Electronics Lab- http://eng.usf.edu/bio-organic-electronics/index.html) was established in fall 2010. His group is active in the field of advanced energy materials, using conducting polymers, perovskite, and nanomaterials (Ag NW, ZnO NW, TiO₂ nanoparticle, graphene, MoS₂) for energy conversion and storage in electrical devices. His research activities cover materials synthesis/process, device fabrication, characterization, and optimization. He has more than 120 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, 12 patents, and supervised 30 graduate students.

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