“Perovskites offer a promising solution to meet the growing demand for clean energy as the world recognizes the urgent need to transition to net-zero emissions. If you look at the AI revolution, what do you think is going to power all those NVIDIA chips? They’re going to need a lot of energy. What we’re doing with perovskites is at the core of solving climate change.”

"The development and fielding of directed-energy weapons like lasers has taken on such new urgency among world governments in recent years due to the rapid proliferation of relatively cheap one-way attack drones among both professional militaries (see: the 2020 conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine) and irregular forces like Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea, ISIS cells in Iraq and Syria, and Iran-backed militias across the Middle East. In 2021, then-Central Command chief Marine General Frank McKenzie Jr. warned US lawmakers that weaponized commercial off-the-shelf drones have become the greatest threat to US forces in the region since the advent of the improvised explosive device during the early years of the Global War on Terror." (Wired)