UW Chemical Engineering, Clean Energy Institute, Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute
Soohyung Lee prepared a wonderful talk on the “theoretical and experimental investigations of resonant light-matter interactions in ternary metal chalcogenide nanocrystals”, and successfully defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Soohyung Lee for all of his hard work!
Brittany Bishop prepared a wonderful talk on the “synthesis, surface functionalization, and strain engineering of luminescent inorganic nanomaterials”, and successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Bishop for all of her hard work!
Elena Pandres and Matthew Crane publish a paper in ACS Nano that builds upon our recent Nature Communications work. The paper, titled “Laser-Driven Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires from Colloidal Nanocrystals”, describes how light can be used to grow semiconductor nanowires via the photothermal excitation of colloidal nanocrystal seeds!
You can read more about the work here: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c00683
Soohyung Lee publishes a paper on “Iron-Content-Dependent, Quasi-Static Dielectric Resonances and Oxidative Transitions in Bornite and Chalcopyrite Copper Iron Sulfide Nanocrystals” in Chemistry of Materials!
You can read more about this work here: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04798
At UW Chemical Engineering’s Fall Graduate Student Awards Day, Brittany Bishop received the 2020 Outstanding Service Award. This is a new award that honors a graduate student every year for their impactful dedication and service to the field of Chemical Engineering. Brittany received the award for her dedication to department organizations, as well as her service in science education, communication, and policy. Congratulations, Brittany!
Ge Gu prepared a wonderful talk on the synthesis of silicon-germanium nanowires, and Chih-Wei Hsu prepared a fantastic talk on data science approaches for analyzing battery technologies. Both of them did a great job and successfully defended their master’s thesis. Congratulations to Ge and Chih-Wei for all of their hard work!
Elena Pandres prepared a wonderful talk on the “synthesis, assembly, and integration of semiconductor nanowires”, and successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Pandres for all of her hard work!
Recently, Martin Affandy accepted a job offer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. When he begins his job in February, he will be focusing on the research and development of catalyst systems under the division of Energy Processes and Materials. Congratulations, Martin!
At UW Chemical Engineering’s Fall Graduate Student Awards Day, Brittany Bishop received the 2019 Jane and Joseph McCarthy Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Teaching. This award honors a graduate student every year who shows excellence in teaching, and Brittany was honored for her work as a graduate student instructor in Material and Energy Balances this past Spring. Congratulations, Brittany!
Ryan Kastilani and Brittany Bishop publish the results of a collaborative effort between the Pozzo lab (http://depts.washington.edu/pozzorg/) and the Holmberg group, titled “On-Demand Sonochemical Synthesis of Ultrasmall and Magic-Size CdSe Quantum Dots in Single-Phase and Emulsion Systems”.
You can read more about this work here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02891