Nanoscale Energy Research

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News

October 23, 2014

Don and Caldwell’s work on 2D Cu2S-ZnS published

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

A.H. Caldwell, D.-H. Ha, X. Ding, and R.D. Robinson, “Analytical Modeling of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance in Heterostructure Copper Sulfide Nanocrystals,” Journal of Chemical Physics 141, 164125-8 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4897635

September 29, 2014

Obafemi’s (et al.) highly conductive qdot films is published

O.O. Otelaja, D.-H. Ha, T. Ly, H. Zhang, and R.D. Robinson, “Highly Conductive Cu_2-xS Nanoparticle Films through Room Temperature Processing, and an Order of Magnitude Enhancement of Conductivity via Electrophoretic Deposition,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 6, 18911–18920 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/am504785f

August 8, 2014

Don-Hyung Ha defends his PhD thesis

Don-Hyung Ha defends his PhD thesis and heads to MIT for a postdoc

July 21, 2014

Richard gives the penultimate talk at Gordon conference

Richard gives a talk at the inaugural “Quantum Dot GRC” (Gordon Research Conference on Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals), Smithfield, RI, July 2014.

May 9, 2014

Phonon spectrometer paper selected as Highlight of 2013

“Design and operation of a microfabricated phonon spectrometer utilizing superconducting tunnel junctions as phonon transducers,” by O.O. Otelaja, J.B. Hertzberg, M. Aksit and R.D. Robinson, has been selected by the editors of New Journal of Physics for inclusion in the exclusive ‘Highlights of 2013’ collection. Papers are chosen on the basis of referee endorsement, novelty, scientific impact and broadness of appeal. This article was picked as one of the top five leading-edge articles in Nanophysics. May 9, 2014
http://therobinsongroup.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2013-New-J.-Phys.-15-043018.pdf
http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/page/highlights-of-2013
http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/15/4/043018/

April 11, 2014

Mahmut Aksit defends his PhD thesis

Mahmut Aksit defends his PhD thesis: INORGANIC THIN FILMS AND NANOSHEETS: FABRICATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND SIMULATION

March 21, 2014

Rich named “Emerging Investigator” by J. Mater. Chem. A

Richard Robinson named “Emerging Investigator” by the Journal of Materials Chemistry A Editorial and International Editorial Advisory Boards. The list includes 36 emerging top scientists at the early stages of their careers in Materials Chemistry. March 2014
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/ta/c4ta90043j
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/ta/c3ta13982d

March 16, 2014

Rich has been award a 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant again

February 1, 2014

Phonon spectrometer paper featured in Physics Today print

J.B. Hertzberg*, M. Aksit*, O.O. Otelaja*, D.A. Stewart, and R.D. Robinson, “Direct Measurements of Surface Scattering in Si Nanosheets using a Microscale Phonon Spectrometer: Implications for Casimir-Limit Predicted by Ziman Theory,” Nano Letters (Accepted 2013)

Featured by Physics Today, (website link)
Featured by Physics Today Online

January 22, 2014

Christians paper accepted into J. Phys. Chem. C

C.R. Ocier, K. Whitham, T. Hanrath, and R.D. Robinson, “Chalcogenidometallate Clusters as Surface Ligands for PbSe Nanocrystal Field-Effect Transistors,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C (Accepted 2014)