Apr. 2018: Emily wins a Poster Award at the Materials Research Society's Spring meeting.
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Apr. 2017: Xin Li won an Outstanding Student Poster Award at the 253rd National American Chemical Society Meeting in San Francisco!!!
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Archived News
Aug. 2023: Anne and Nick have been named Wilkes Scholars! We thank the Wilkes Center for their generous support
Jul. 2023: Kefu's Nature Chemistry paper is featured @THEU. Many thanks to science writer Brian Maffly and graphic designer Todd Anderson from University Marketing and Communications.
Jun. 2023: Ming Lee had a great visit to Kyushu University, thanks to support by the NSF IRES program. Many thanks to Prof. Nobuhiro Yanai for hosting and arranging enriching and meaningful discussions with other faculty members!
Apr. 2023: Ming Lee, Lorenzo, Xiaodong & Katerina co-organize "Symposium EL07: Group IV Nanostructures for Emerging Optoelectronics” at the Spring 2023 Materials Research Conference in San Francisco. It was great to see everyone there and get an in-person update on their science!
Jan. 2023: We welcome two new 1st year graduate students to the group!!!
Oct. 2022: Ming Lee gives a plenary talk at the International Symposium on Singlet Fission and Photon Fusion at the University Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Thanks to Angelo Monguzzi and Franco Meinardi for organizing this meeting!
Aug. 2022: Ming Lee gives an invited talk at the SPIE meeting in San Diego. Thanks to Derya Baran and Andrew Musser for the invite. Thanks also to Jenny Lockard and Libai Huang for the invitation to speak at the ACS National Meeting in Chicago!
July 2022: Paulina and Vanessa lead the inaugural 'Nutty about Nanoparticles' camp for 8-10 year old children over the course of a week, sharing nanosized nuggets of science in the form of plasmonic nanoparticles...
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.
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!
July 2021: We have moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. While we're grateful to have been part of the wonderful community of students, staff and faculty at the University of California, Riverside for the past 9 years, we are excited about the next chapter at the University of Utah!
May 2021: Postdoctoral fellows interested in the rational design of spin-active hybrid platforms that can harness multiexcitonic processes to improve the performance of photovoltaics, photocatalysts and bioimaging probes should apply. Graduate students should apply to the Graduate Program in the Dept. of Chemistry at the U.
Mar. 2021: Ming Lee is profiled as a Brandeis alumnae breaking new ground in STEM
Nov. 2020: Zed and Zhiyuan's Acc. Chem. Res. report makes the cover!
June 2020: Tiffany receives the CNAS Academic Excellence Award, given to one student from Chemistry "for achieving excellence in their academics, research or creative activity"
Feb. 2020: ACS Energy Letters features Ming Lee in a Virtual Issue on Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research.
Dec. 2019: Pan's Nature Chem. paper is online. We look forward to continuing working with Joe and Lorenzo here at UCR Mechanical Engineering, and Sean's group at UT Austin Chemistry! Look Behind the Paper
Oct. 2019: Pan's Nature Chemistry paper utilizing silicon QD light absorbers for photon upconversion has been accepted!
Sept. 2019: We welcome new graduate students Kefu and Zhongxiang
Aug. 2019: Farewell to Nathan and Jackie, our summer REU students. We also wish Zhiyuan all the best at NREL as a new postdoc there!
July 2019: Ming Lee gives a talk at the Cavendish Laboratory at the Univ. of Cambridge, UK. Thanks Akshay for the kind invitation!
Jun. 2019: Ming Lee gives an invited talk at the Fpi14 conference in Berlin, Germany. It was great to be able to share our work with the organic electronics community.
May 2019: Paulina and Anh receive the 2019 Undergraduate Awards in Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society for their work in the Tang lab.
Apr. 2019: Pan Xia wins the Best Poster Award Wed. evening at the Materials Research Society's Spring meeting, while Kevin (a senior) is nominated! Emily and Pan give talks.
Apr. 2019: With Joey Luther from NREL, Wanli Ma from SooChow Univ. and Nobu Yanai from Kyushu Univ., Ming Lee organized a symposium, ES 19 "Excitonic Materials and Quantum Dots for Energy Conversion". We thank everyone who participated for making it a success!
Nov. 2018: Our J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Perspective makes the cover!
Sept. 2018: Zhiyuan's Nano Lett. paper receives enough citations to place it in the top 1% in Physics (see Web of Science)
Aug. 2018: Emily presents her winning poster at the 2018 International Materials Research Congress in Cancun courtesy of the MRS and SMM (Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales)!
Aug. 2018: Carter wins the 2018 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry.
Jul. 2018: Ming Lee gave a talk at the Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals GRC; Pan and Melika presented posters. We thank Zeger and Daniel for organizing such a great meeting!
Jun. 2018: We welcome REU students Paulina and Jefferson!
Jun. 2018: Ming Lee receives 2018 Early Career Research Program funding. We thank the Department of Energy (DoE) for this support!
Apr. 2018: Ming Lee gives the opening keynote talk at the 2nd International Symposium on Singlet Fission and Photon Fusion at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Thanks to Maria and Kasper for a great conference!
Apr. 2018: Emily wins a Poster Award at the Materials Research Society's Spring meeting, while Carter (a junior) is nominated! Daryl and Pan give talks
Mar. 2018: Ming Lee gives an invited talk at the ACS in New Orleans. Thanks to Sean, Kallie and Libai for organizing dynamic Energy & Charge Transfer at Nanoscale Interfaces sessions in the Physical Chemistry division.
Dec. 2017: Ming Lee speaks at the 5th CMS International Symposium on Photofunctional Chemistry and Molecular Systems in Fukuoka, Japan. This wonderful symposium was hosted by Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka and Prof. Nobu Yanai from Kyushu University!
Nov. 2017: Ming Lee gives a talk at the MRS in Boston! Thanks to the symposium organizers Matt, Jen, Maksym and Sasha for the invitation!
Aug. 2017: Our Perspective is featured in Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications
July. 2017: Our Invited Perspective is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
May. 2017: Tony won the Best Poster Presentation at the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium and Danielle receives the Academic Excellence Award at the 31st Annual Honors Convocation at UCR!
Apr. 2017: Xin won an Outstanding Student Poster Award at the 253rd National American Chemical Society Meeting in San Francisco!!!
Feb. 2017: Ming Lee is one of the 2017 Sloan Research Fellows in Chemistry! See the announcement here: sloan.org/fellowships/2017-Fellows
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-faculty-win-2017-sloan-research-fellowships
Aug. 2016: The paper COLL 42 that Ming Lee presented at the 252nd ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia in August was identified as the “Best Presentation” of that session. Thanks, Rajesh!
Aug. 2016: Ming Lee gives a talk at the Electron Donor Acceptor Interactions Gordon Research Conference in Newport, RI. Thanks to Natia and Dirk for the invitation!
06/13/16: High school students Andrew and Jessica join the lab for the summer as part of the High School Apprenticeship Program (HSAP)
sponsored by the U.S. Army.
05/26/16: Jesse receives an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Dept. of Chemistry.
05/04/16: Ming Lee speaks at the UCR Chemistry Club- it was great fun to share our research.
04/27/16: Our lab hosts Val Verde district students as part of Project Connect! Check out the outreach section.
Apr. 2016: Jesse receives a Graduate Research Fellowship from the NSF!!! Thank you, NSF.
Mar. 2016: Ming Lee receives a Chinese American Faculty Association of Southern California (CAFA) Faculty Development Grant.
Aug. 2015: The Huffington Post gives us a nod:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/climate-change-this-week_b_7972634.html
Techno FAQ covers our photon upconversion research:
http://technofaq.org/posts/2015/08/to-soak-up-the-sun-change-its-frequency/
July 2015: Our work is featured as one of the Five Best Ideas of the Day by the Aspen Institute:
http://aspen.us/ideas/2015-07-28
It is also highlighted by the EE Times:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327310
July 2015: Zhiyuan's hybrid molecule-nanocrystal upconversion paper is published in Nano Lett. Read about it here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150727180231.htm
May 2015: Xin's paper is published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Apr. 2015: Group attended the MRS Spring Meeting in San Fransisco. Melika, Duane, Xin and Zhiyuan presented their work.
Aug. 2014: We attend the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, presenting posters and talks.
Jun. 2014: Ming Lee receives an Army Research Office YIP award.
May 2014: Xin's paper is published in Nano Letters; Alex's paper is in press in Langmuir.
Apr. 2014: Ming Lee receives a National Science Foundation CAREER award.
Jun. 2013: The group participates in the 87th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium.
May 2013: Monica receives a Bourns College of Engineering Academic Excellence Award at the 2013 Honors Convocation.
Apr. 2013: Ming Lee gives an invited talk at the 245th ACS National Meeting that in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Jan. 2013: Monica receives a California Space Grant Consortium (CaSGC) Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Thank you CaSGC!
Oct. 2012: The first experimental work has commenced in the new MSE building!