Designer Ligands for Functional Nanocrystals.

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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.
Jan. 2025: We welcome 3 new first years to the group!
Dec. 2024: We wish Kefu well as he starts his new job at Micron, Boise, ID.
Aug. 2024: Ming Lee gives invited talks at the Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions GRC in Newport, RI; and the ACS Meeting in Denver.
July 2024: With Luis Campos from Columbia, Matt Sfeir from CUNY, Ming Lee co-organizes the 4th ISPF2 conference. Our group presents posters
May 2024: Ming Lee gives invited talks at the ISOS-20 conference in Hiroshima, Japan; and the 245th ECS conference in San Francisco. Many thanks to the organizers Joji Oshita and Takaeki Iwamoto, co-chairs of ISOS-20; as well as symposium organizers for D04 at the ECS: Andrew Greytak, Danielle Hickey, Qiliang Li, Ivan Marri, Preston Snee, Soong Ju Oh, Vladimir Svrcek and Dong-Kyun Ko.
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.
Jan. 2025: We welcome 3 new first years to the group!
Dec. 2024: We wish Kefu well as he starts his new job at Micron, Boise, ID.
Aug. 2024: Ming Lee gives invited talks at the Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions GRC in Newport, RI; and the ACS Meeting in Denver.
July 2024: With Luis Campos from Columbia, Matt Sfeir from CUNY, Ming Lee co-organizes the 4th ISPF2 conference. Our group presents posters
May 2024: Ming Lee gives invited talks at the ISOS-20 conference in Hiroshima, Japan; and the 245th ECS conference in San Francisco. Many thanks to the organizers Joji Oshita and Takaeki Iwamoto, co-chairs of ISOS-20; as well as symposium organizers for D04 at the ECS: Andrew Greytak, Danielle Hickey, Qiliang Li, Ivan Marri, Preston Snee, Soong Ju Oh, Vladimir Svrcek and Dong-Kyun Ko.
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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.