Group news
- October 2015
- Shannon's paper -- Compositionally-Tunable Mechanochemical Synthesis of ZnxCo3-xO4 Nanoparticles for Mesoporous p-Type Photocathodes -- is published in J. Mater. Chem. A!
- Jim co-organizes the 2015 Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) conference "Building the Dye-Sensitized Solar Fuel Device" in Chapel Hill, NC.
- Jim gives a talk on new advances in NiO solar photocathodes at the NC Photochem 2015 Symposium 2015 held in Charlotte, NC.
- September 2015
The RTNN (Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network) is selected as a 5-year $5.5 million site in the NSF's National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) network. Joint between Duke, NCSU, and UNC, Jim is co-PI and UNC site director, working closely with Carrie Donley, director of CHANL. Click here to read the UNC press release.
- The group participates in the 3rd Annual Triangle Student Research Competition, organized by the UNC-CH, Duke, and NCSU Materials Research Society chapters and the Triangle Electrochemical Society. The group wins the prize for top participating research group!
- Jim gives a talk at the 27th Annual Packard Fellows Meeting in Monterey, CA.
- July 2015
The group has the first annual cookout at Jim's house!
- Jim gives a talk at the Cottrell Scholars Conference in Tucson, AZ.
- May 2015
- Jim gives a talk at the 9th International Conference on Silicon Epitaxy and Heterostructures in Montreal, Canada
- April 2015
The group participates in the annual UNC Science Expo, demonstrating smart-phone based light microscopy of materials. As part of the event, CHANL makes a "nano-portrait" of the group. Thanks CHANL!- Shannon passes her prelim exam. Congrats Shannon!
- March 2015
- Shannon and David H. are BOTH awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships! Congratulations!
- David H. passes his prelim exam. Congrats David!
- February 2015
- Robert and David H. give poster presentations at the GRC conference "Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Technology" in Ventura, CA.
Jim is awarded a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship. Many thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for this support! The fellowships "seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise." Click here to read the Sloan Foundation announcement or click here to read the UNC press release.
Jim is awarded a 2015 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. This program "develops outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills." Many thanks for this generous support of our research and teaching initiatives! Click here to read the official announcement
- January 2015
- Esther gives a poster presentation at the Young Generation Technical and Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida
- Cory gives a poster presentation at the Inter-American Photochemical Society Conference in Sarasota, Florida
- December 2014
- Robert and David's collaborative work on enhancing absorption in nanowire solar cells is published in Nano Letters -- Doubling Absorption in Nanowire Solar Cells with Dielectric Shell Optical Antennas.
- November 2014
- Joe's paper -- Encoding Abrupt and Uniform Dopant Profiles in Vapor-Liquid-Solid Nanowires by Suppressing the Reservoir Effect of the Liquid Catalyst -- is published in ACS Nano.
- October 2014
- We've added another group member. Welcome Seokhyoung!
- Jim is awarded a 2014 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, which provides $875,000 in flexible funding over 5 years. Many thanks to the Foundation for this generous support! Click here to read the Packard Foundation announcement or click here to read the UNC press release.
- Our collaborative EFRC project to develop new p-type photoelectrode materials, led by Candy Mercado and Art Nozik at NREL, is published in J. Phys. Chem. C.
- September 2014
- August 2014
- Jim gives an invited talk at the "Nanowires 2014" and "Nanowire Growth Workshop" joint conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Our paper on waveguide scattering microscopy is highlighted on the cover of ACS Photonics, showing dark-field images of a UNC "Old Well" gold microstructure illuminated by light in a glass waveguide.
- David Hill wins a Venable Fellowship and a UNC teaching award. Congrats David!
- July 2014
- June 2014
- The UNC Energy Frontier Research Center: Center for Solar Fuels is renewed by DOE for an additional four years. Congrats!
- Cory, Esther, and Shannon's paper -- Hierarchically-Structured NiO Nanoplatelets as Mesoscale p-Type Photocathodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells -- is published in J. Phys. Chem. C.
- May 2014
- Our collaborative paper with the Papanikolas group -- Imaging Charge Separation and Carrier Recombination in Nanowire p-i-n Junctions Using Ultrafast Microscopy -- is published in Nano Letters.
- Our paper -- Identifying Crystallization and Incorporation Limited Regimes During VLS Growth of Si Nanowires -- is published in ACS Nano.
- April 2014
- Chris gives a talk on the photonic applications of ENGRAVE at the MRS National Meeting in San Francisco
- Chris is awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship -- Congrats Chris!
- March 2014
- Our collaborative work with the Papanikolas group to study ultrafast dynamics in Si nanowire ensembles by transient absorption and ultrafast microscopy is published in dual papers in J. Phys. Chem. C.
- Joe gives a talk on the development and applications of ENGRAVE at the ACS National Meeting in Dallas.
- February 2014
- Jim gives an invited talk on nanomaterials for solar energy at the Materials Challenges In Alternative & Renewable Energy (MCARE) 2014 conference.
- January 2014
- We have a new website! -- Thanks Joe! Nice work!
- Our paper describing the ENGRAVE process to control nanowire morphology is featured in Nature Nanotechnology Research Highlights: "Engraving Nanowires"
- December 2013
- Chris passes his prelim oral exam -- Congrats!
- November 2013
- Joe and Chris' paper -- "Synthetically Encoding 10-nm Morphology in Silicon Nanowires" -- appears in Nano Letters. This paper describes a process termed ENGRAVE (Encoded Nanowire GRowth and Appearance through VLS and Etching) to encode high-resolution morphology along the growth axis of semiconductor nanowires.
- October 2013
- Robert passes his prelim oral exam -- Congrats!
- September 2013
- The group receives a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation -- Thanks for the support, NSF!
- August 2013
- July 2013
- Jim gives an invited talk at Nano Korea in Seoul, South Korea on morphology-controlled nanowires for nanophotonics.
- May 2013
- April 2013
- Tom and Joe pass their prelim exams -- Congrats!
- Our paper on Si nanowire ultrafast microscopy with the Papanikolas group is featured in Nature Nanotechnology Research Highlights: "Charge Carriers Caught on Camera"
- March 2013
- February 2013
- October 2012
- June 2012
- Lab renovations finished, and we grew our first Si nanowires!
- May 2012
- Welcome Chris!
- Fall 2011
- July 2011
- The group officially starts at UNC-Chapel Hill
