RECENT NEWS
08.19.2016 - Wei Liu, visiting scholar from Nanking University in China who spent a year in our group is heading back home. We wish her good luck!
08.19.2016 - Korgel group welcomes new graduate student researcher, Kai Nalipinski , a first year material science student.
07.21.2016 - Dr. Brian Korgel is ranked in top 300 most cited researchers in the world for MSE according to Elsevier Scopus.
07.08.2016 - Dr. Damon Smith, Korgel Group class of 2009, accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of New Orleans!
06.14.2016 - Vikas Reddy wins the Eastman Summer Scholarship that is awarded to one student from the Chemical Engineering department. Great job Vikas!
06.03.2016 - Emily Adkins wins the best presenter award for the first/third year seminar series in chemical engineering. Great job Emily!
06.01.2016 - Dr. Korgel joined the folks at the Nanovation Podcast for a talk about Nanotechnology, Nanocrystal solar, and starting companies. Check out "Even the Easy Things are Hard" at the web link below, or follow Nanovation on the Apple Store or on Soundcloud to get the lastest podcast.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Role of Halides in the Ordered Structure Transitions of Heated Gold Nanocrystal Superlattices
It is known that Dodecanethiol-capped gold (Au) nanocrystal superlattices can undergo a surprisingly diverse series of ordered structure transitions when heated. In this paper Yixuan Yu, Brian Goodfellow, Michael R. Rasch and Christian Bosoy showed that in the presence of halide-containing surfactants the nanocrystals ripen at much lower temperature and superlattices undergo various ordered structure transitions upon heating. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Smilgies at Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) and was recently published in Langmuir and selected as an ACS Editors' Choice article.
