Designer Ligands for Functional Nanocrystals.

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June 2022: Ariel Estava from Ithaca College joins us for the summer as part of the UoU's Chemistry REU program.
May 2022: We attend the Spring MRS meeting in Hawai'i, presenting 2 posters and 2 talks. Ming Lee gives an invited talk in symposium EQ08. Thanks to Shinae Jun, Byungha Shin, Robert Hoye and Laura Schelhas for the organization!
April 2022: Tsumugi's J. Phys. Chem. Lett. paper makes the cover!
Mar. 2022: Congratulations to Tingting for winning a Graduate travel award for the ACS Spring 2022 National Meeting, courtesy of the Florida State Univ. GSSPC, "Illuminating the Field of Photophysics: 101 Years of Michael Kasha".
Mar. 2022: Ming Lee gives two invited talks at the ACS meeting in San Diego. It was particularly meaningful to be part of Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee's, GSSPC, "Illuminating the Field of Photophysics: 101 Years of Michael Kasha" line up, to look back and reflect on Kasha's seminal contributions to photochemistry.
Jan. 2022: Two first years, Saad and Vanessa join the group :)
Dec. 2021: Ming Lee presents at the Silicon Containing Polymers and Composites workshop in San Diego; and virtually at the Next Generation Solar Energy conference (NGSE6). Thanks to Joe Furgal and Claire Hartmann-Thompson for organizing the former; Christoph, Dirk, Garry, Jens, Jose, Katherine and Ning for the latter! To close out the year, Nobu Yanai (Kyushu), Mark Wilson (Toronto), Jianzhang Zhao (Dalian) and Ming Lee co-organized the Pacifichem 2021 Symposium on Excitonic Materials for Photon Upconversion and Singlet Fission.
Sept. 2021: Ming Lee attends METANANO 21 virtually as a Keynote Speaker. Thanks to Ivan Mukhin and Vladimir Fedorov for the opportunity to share our work!
May 2022: We attend the Spring MRS meeting in Hawai'i, presenting 2 posters and 2 talks. Ming Lee gives an invited talk in symposium EQ08. Thanks to Shinae Jun, Byungha Shin, Robert Hoye and Laura Schelhas for the organization!
April 2022: Tsumugi's J. Phys. Chem. Lett. paper makes the cover!
Mar. 2022: Congratulations to Tingting for winning a Graduate travel award for the ACS Spring 2022 National Meeting, courtesy of the Florida State Univ. GSSPC, "Illuminating the Field of Photophysics: 101 Years of Michael Kasha".
Mar. 2022: Ming Lee gives two invited talks at the ACS meeting in San Diego. It was particularly meaningful to be part of Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee's, GSSPC, "Illuminating the Field of Photophysics: 101 Years of Michael Kasha" line up, to look back and reflect on Kasha's seminal contributions to photochemistry.
Jan. 2022: Two first years, Saad and Vanessa join the group :)
Dec. 2021: Ming Lee presents at the Silicon Containing Polymers and Composites workshop in San Diego; and virtually at the Next Generation Solar Energy conference (NGSE6). Thanks to Joe Furgal and Claire Hartmann-Thompson for organizing the former; Christoph, Dirk, Garry, Jens, Jose, Katherine and Ning for the latter! To close out the year, Nobu Yanai (Kyushu), Mark Wilson (Toronto), Jianzhang Zhao (Dalian) and Ming Lee co-organized the Pacifichem 2021 Symposium on Excitonic Materials for Photon Upconversion and Singlet Fission.
Sept. 2021: Ming Lee attends METANANO 21 virtually as a Keynote Speaker. Thanks to Ivan Mukhin and Vladimir Fedorov for the opportunity to share our work!
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International Research Experiences for Students (IRES): Prof. Nobuhiro Yanai's & Prof. Nobuo Kimuzuka's group at Kyushu University |
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.