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04/16/2013: Amira presented her poster, "Selective Patterning of Bi2Te3 Nanoplatelets via Microcontact Printing," in the 2013 UA's Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference.

02/01/2013: Lingling received the Outstanding Poster Award (2012 Review Meeting).

12/13/2012: Our paper "Vapor Phase Growth of Bismuth Telluride Nanoplatelets on Flexible Polyimide Films" has been published on ECS Solid State Lett.

12/06/12: Lingling Guo presented "Exfoliating V-VI Group Chalcogenides in Ionic Liquids" in the ChBE Department Seminar.

11/01/2012: Lingling gave the poster presentation, "Vapor Phase Growth of Bismuth Telluride Nanoplatelets on Flexible Polyimide films," in the 2012 MINT review.

10/29/2012: Ben's poster presentation won the 2nd place of the Materials Engineering division in AIChE 2012 Undergraduate Research Poster session. Read more here and here.

10/29/2012: Ben gave the poster presentation, "Vapor Phase Growth of Bismuth Tellurides Nanoplatelets on Flexible Polyimide films," in the AIChE 2012 meeting - Pittsburg.

09/13/2012: Haiyu Quan joins the group as graduate researcher.

07/30/2012: Amira gave the poster presentation, "Synthesis and Evaluation of Vertically Aligned Silicon Nanowires," in the REU Poster Session for "National Academy of Engineering."


07/30/2012: Trey gave the poster presentation, "The Growth of Vertically-Aligned Silicon Nanowires," in the REU Poster Session for "National Academy of Engineering."


07/30/2012: Ben gave the oral presentation, "Chemical Vapor Transport Synthesis of Bismuth Telluride Nanoplates," in the REU Oral Session for "Engineering Solutions for Clean Energy Generation, Storage, and Consumption".


07/22/2012: Hung-Ta gave the poster presentation, "The Case Studies of Mass and Energy Balances", in the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division - 2012 summer school (U. of Maine, Orono).


06/20/2012: Hung-Ta's postdoc work (Multinozzle Emitter Array, with Pan Mao, Daojing Wang, and Peidong Yang) wins the prestigious 2012 R&D 100 Awards. Read more here.

06/13/2012: Si nanowires were first synthesized by Trey and Amira using our CVT system.

05/30/2012: George Carpenter, Amira Aglan, and Benjamin Ivey join the group as summer REU researchers.

04/09/2012: Robby gave the poster presentation, "Large-scale solvothermal synthesis of Bi2Te3 nanoplates for thermoelectric power generation", in the UA's Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference.

04/09/2012: Tyler gave the poster presentation, "Chemical vapor transport synthesis of Bi2Te3 nanoplates for thermoelectric applications", in the UA's Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference.

03/06/2012: Tyler Evans joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.

02/25/2012: The group's 1st sample (Bi2Te3 nanoplates) was synthesized by Lingling.

01/27/2012: Hung-Ta gave the oral presentation, "Nanostructuring V-VI Based Chalcogenides for Thermoelectric Applications," in MINT seminar.

01/15/2012: Snapshots of our laboratory during the set-up.

Note: (a) The MTI vacuum oven is the first system up for operation
(b) Three Lindberg/Blue M Mini-Mite tube furnace systems are under construction.
(c) The marble table is waiting for Janis CCS-400H cryostat.

12/20/2011: Robert (Robby) Anderson joins the group as our 1st undergraduate researcher.

10/15/2011: Lingling Guo joins the group as our 1st graduate researcher.

09/14/2011: Bevill 0032 is assigned by the Dean Office as our group laboratory.