RECENT NEWS
06.01.2025 - Congratulations to former group member Yangning Zhang for their appointment as Associate Professor at Tianjin University!
01.01.2025 - Congratulations to former group member Xiaotang Lu for their appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!
04.01.2024 - Congratulations to Dr. Ben Stacy for successfully defending his thesis: Silicon nanocrystal functionalization and interactions in dispersion.
12.05.2023 - Congratulations to Ben Stacy, Seja; Shah, Anastacia De Gorostiza, and Loc Ngo for their recent publication: Size-Dependent Room-Temperature Hydrosilylation of Silicon Nanocrystals without UV Light Excitation. Read more here
10.11.2023 - The Center for a Solar Powered Future by 2050 had a successful meeting in Fort Collins, CO! 11 Projects were funded thanks to the NSF and industrial partners.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
A "Tips and Tricks" Practical Guide to the Synthesis of Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals
Metal halide perovskite nanocrystals offer a range of interesting properties and are being studied extensively for applications in solar cells, photodetectors and light-emitting devices. In a recent perspectives paper, Yangning Zhang, Timothy Siegler, Cherrelle Thomas, Michael Abney, Tushti Shah, Anastacia De Gorostiza, and Randalynn Greene provide a number of best practices for the synthesis, purification and characterization of metal halide perovskite nanocrystals, with detailed discussion of CsPbI3, CsPbBr3, CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPI), and Cs2AgBiBr6 as examples. This Perspective helps explain and resolve some of the known troubles when working with metal halide perovskite nanocrystals, and hopefully will provide helpful guidance, especially for researchers relatively new to the field. It was one of the most downloaded papers published in Chemistry of Materials in 2020! Find the paper and watch the ACS LiveSlides presentation here.
