RECENT NEWS
08.04.2017 - New publication for the Korgel Group in Nano Letters! Jackson Stolle et al study multiexciton generation in silicon nanorods & effect of aspect ratio on MEG QY. here is the link to the paper.
08.04.2017 - Last day in lab for summer student Yuki Nakashima.After this summer, Yuki will be returning to Kyushu University to complete his masters degree.
07.14.2017 - Vikas wins the chemical engineering paper of the year award for the paper "Flexible CuInSe2 Nanocrystal Solar Cells on Paper."
06.22.2017 - Vikas wins third prize in the poster presentation coompetition at the FLEX conference.
06.03.2017 - Korgel group welcomes the summer students Yuki Nakashima from Kyushu University in Japan and Zachary Boring from Austin Community College.
05.01.2017 - Korgel Group member Emily Adkins gets "published in Science" by winning one of the 6 Word Competitions on Science March posters! Check out her sign here!
03.27.2017 - Emily Adkins is featured in UT Energy week's video. Check it out to know her research within a minute!
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.
