Nanoscale Energy Research

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News

September 18, 2018

Cindy Chen wins SRC award!

Cindy Chen awarded the “Undergraduate Research Opportunities Best Poster Award” at the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Techcon 2018 in Austin, TX. Poster title: "Controlling Charge Transport in Spinel Oxides through Manipulation of Cation Site Occupation”. Congratulations Cindy! .

September 15, 2018

Anuj and Cindy’s work published as a PCCP cover article

Anuj and Cindy’s paper on characterizing cation site occupation is a published cover article. Bhargava, C.Y. Chen, K.D. Finkelstein, M.J. Ward, R.D. Robinson, “X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: An Effective Route to Extract Site Occupation of Cations,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 28990 (2018). DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04628j

Front Cover article
Included in themed collection: 2018 PCCP HOT Articles

March 15, 2018

Doug and Curtis’ paper on magic sized clusters in published in JACS

Doug and Curtis’ paper on magic sized clusters and the relationship to organic-inorganic mesophase formation now published, with a cover, in JACS. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/03/new-technique-simplifies-creation-nanoparticle-magic-sized-clusters https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.7b12175

June 2, 2016

Richard gives three talks at ECS conference

Rich gives three talks about our work at the Electrochemical Society meeting in San Diego.

May 24, 2016

Rich speaks at Natural History Museum about nanoscience

Rich speaks at Natural History Museum about nanoscience Podcast of the event: http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/podcasts/secret-life-of-scientists-live Event webpage: http://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/adults/lectures-and-special-events/secret-life-of-scientists-live?utm_source=social-media&utm_medium=facebook&utm_term=20160509-mon&utm_campaign=event NOVA secret life of scientists: https://www.facebook.com/NOVASecretLife/ .

March 8, 2016

Scientific American Israel features our work on the nano-hamburgers

Read the article HERE.

D.-H. Ha, A.H. Caldwell, M.J. Ward, S. Honrao, K. Mathew, R. Hovden, M.K.A. Koker, D.A. Muller, R.G. Hennig, and R.D. Robinson, “Solid-Solid Phase Transformations Induced through Cation Exchange and Strain, in 2D Heterostructured Copper Sulfide Nanocrystals,” Nano Letters 14, 7090–7099 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl5035607

January 3, 2016

Anionic substitution paper for catalysis is published online

Andrew Nelson*, Kevin E. Fritz*, Shreyas Honrao, Richard G. Hennig, Richard D. Robinson^†, and Jin Suntivich^†, “Increased Activity in Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis for Partial Anionic Substitution in Cobalt Oxysulfide Nanoparticles,” J. Mater. Chem. A (accepted 2016) DOI: 10.1039/c5ta08706f

January 1, 2016

Supercapacitor paper is top downloaded for month of December!

Our supercapacitor paper is one of the top ten downloaded from Chemistry of Materials for the month of December. S.D. Perera, X. Ding, A. Bhargava, R. Hovden, A. Nelson, L.F. Kourkoutis, R.D. Robinson, “Enhanced supercapacitor performance for equal Co-Mn stoichiometry in colloidal Co_3-xMn_xO₄ nanoparticles, in additive-free electrodes,” Chem. Mater. 27, 7861 (2015) 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02106

November 4, 2015

Our additive-free batteries featuring Ge, is published

D.-H. Ha*, T. Ly*, J.M. Caron, H. Zhang and R.D. Robinson, “A General Method for High-Performance, Additive-Free Li-ion Battery Electrodes from Colloidal Nanoparticles: The Case of MnS, Cu_2-xS, and Ge,” accepted ACS Appl. Mater. Inter. (2015) DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03398

October 26, 2015

Obafemi’s paper on phonon enhancers in APL

O.O. Otelaja and R.D. Robinson, “Enhancement of Phonon Backscattering due to Confinement of Ballistic Phonon Pathways in Silicon as Studied with a Microfabricated Phonon Spectrometer,” Applied Physics Letters 107, 173102 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4934534

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