Designer Ligands for Functional Nanocrystals.
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Dec. 2025: Ming Lee gives an invited talk at the "Silicon-Containing Polymers And Oligomers: Synthesis, Structural Control, Functions, Hybridization, And Applications" symposium at the Pacifichem 2025. Many thanks to Prof. Tim Su (UCR), Prof. Atsushi Shimojima (Waseda Univ.), Prof. Kazuo Tanaka (Kyoto Univ.), Prof. Chang-Sik Ha (Pusan Natl. Univ.) and Prof. Yoshiro Kaneko (Kagoshima Univ.) for the great time.
Dec. 2025: Ming Lee gives the Physical Chemistry seminar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Oct. 2025: Ming Lee visits the University of Florida and Florida State University to present our research.
Jul./ Aug. 2025: Ming Lee presented at the ICMAT in Singapore. Thanks to Natalie Stingelin and Gang Li for the invitation to present at the SPIE in San Diego "Organic, Hybrid, and Perovskite Photovoltaics XXVI".
Jun. 2025: The group attends the 2025 Conference on Excited State Processes in Santa Fe, NM! Many thanks to Sergei Tretiak and Tammie Gibson for bringing us altogether! Ming Lee gave an invited talk, but the highlight was both Sanoop and Shadi winning the Best Poster Awards, congratulations!
Apr. 2025: Kefu's review is featured by AIP Media Services as a Scilight article!
Mar. 2025: Tian leaves for her own position at UNLV! We wish her all the best; Ming Lee gives an invited talk at the ACS in San Diego. Many thanks to Lea Nienhaus, Dan Congreve and Sascha Feldmann for organizing a great symposium.
Dec. 2025: Ming Lee gives the Physical Chemistry seminar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Oct. 2025: Ming Lee visits the University of Florida and Florida State University to present our research.
Jul./ Aug. 2025: Ming Lee presented at the ICMAT in Singapore. Thanks to Natalie Stingelin and Gang Li for the invitation to present at the SPIE in San Diego "Organic, Hybrid, and Perovskite Photovoltaics XXVI".
Jun. 2025: The group attends the 2025 Conference on Excited State Processes in Santa Fe, NM! Many thanks to Sergei Tretiak and Tammie Gibson for bringing us altogether! Ming Lee gave an invited talk, but the highlight was both Sanoop and Shadi winning the Best Poster Awards, congratulations!
Apr. 2025: Kefu's review is featured by AIP Media Services as a Scilight article!
Mar. 2025: Tian leaves for her own position at UNLV! We wish her all the best; Ming Lee gives an invited talk at the ACS in San Diego. Many thanks to Lea Nienhaus, Dan Congreve and Sascha Feldmann for organizing a great symposium.
Check out our work in this video presentation.
We can use sunlight to convert near-infrared light to yellow light efficiently!
The ACS is gratefully acknowledged for this professional recording at the ACS national meeting in Philadelphia in August 2016.
We can use sunlight to convert near-infrared light to yellow light efficiently!
The ACS is gratefully acknowledged for this professional recording at the ACS national meeting in Philadelphia in August 2016.