In honor of his 65th birthday, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C is dedicating its June 28, 2018, issue to to Professor Prashant Kamat. The issue contains 111 articles in the area of energy conversion and storage by his colleagues and friends. It will also feature an article highlighting his scientific Journey. Congratulations to Professor Kamat on the well-deserved recognitiion!…
Professor Kamat of the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory will be attending the 7th Hsinchu Summer Course and Workshop at the National Chiao Tung Universitm in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and the 7th Sungkyun International Solar Form (SISF 2018) in Seoul, Korea. He will be giving 3 lectures at Hsinchu, and leading a talk at SISF called "Hype and Hope of Mixed Halide Lead Perovskite Solar Cells."…
Assistant Research Professor Irek Janik will be attending the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in June of 2018. He will be presenting a paper titled "Transient Raman spectra, structure and thermochemistry on the selenocyanate dimer radical anion in water."…
Professor Prashant Kamat wil be presenting several topics this spring. He will be speaking at the 233rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Seattle. He will also be organizing a symposium on Inorganic/Organic Nanohybrids for Energy Conversion. His papers are titled, "Effect of Iodide Treatment on the Photovoltaic Performance of Mixed Halide Perovskite Solar Cells" and "Photocatalytic Aspects of CsPb Br3…
NDRL Professor Prashant Kamat will be traveling to lecture at the American Chemical Society Editors' Meeting and attend the Atlantic Basin Conference at the end of January, 2018. He will be presenting "Unraveling the Mystique of Mixed Halide Lead Halide Perovskites."
In February, Professor Kamat will travel to lecture at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. There, he will be giving a seminar to the Chemistry Department titled "Lead Halide Perovskites. Looking Beyond the Hype." He will also travel to Minneapolis where he was invited to talk at the Symposium "Liquid Crystals, Metamaterial Transformation Optics, Photonic Crystals and Solar Cells."…
Congratulations to Sylwia Ptasinska. She has been reappointed to the board of editors for The European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics. Her term is a three-year term.…
Professor Prashant Kamat will be traveling throughout India this December. He will be the IISc-DST Centennial Chair (Visiting Professor) at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He will also be attending conferences and lecturing at the Electrochemical Society School.…
Three College of Science faculty members are among eight at Notre Dame to be awarded Luksburg Foundation Collaboration Grants for projects with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) faculty in Santiago, Chile.
Through a generous gift, the Luksburg Foundation began this grant program in 2013 with Notre Dame International and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies…
We are saddened to report that Zahm Professor Emeritus Robert H. Schuler, passed away the morning of November 13, 2017. Bob Schuler was Director of the NDRL from 1975 to 1995, a 20-year period of growth and productivity that helped build our strong national and international reputation. In addition to his significant research accomplishments and recruiting and development successes, he was instrumental in constructing bridges to radiation chemistry groups in many countries throughout the world, the benefits of which are still felt today. His legacy continues to inform and support us.…
Dr. Irek Janik from the NDRL was invited to present at BIT's 8th Annual Global Congress of Catalysis in Shanghai China in October of 2017. His paper is titled "Vibrational characterization of OH-adduct reaction intermediates in aqueous media."…
Researchers at the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory have devised a process to detect neutral radicals
Dr. David Bartels of the Radiation Laboratory has been invited to give a presentation at the Microscopy and Microanalysis Meeting
Professor Prashant Kamat is speaking at two events this August
Sylwia Ptasinska joined the Electron-Molecule Collisions and Swarms (EMS) Advisory committee
Dr. LaVerne of the Radiation Laboratory will be traveling this summer to give lectures.
Irek Janik of the Radiation Laboratory
Professor Kamat will once again be traveling after receiving invitations to lecture. He will be attending the Sungkyun International Solar Forum in Seoul, Korea and will be speaking on "Direct Charge Carrier Flow in Mixed Halide Perovskite Films." He then travels to Stowe, VT, to lecture at the 2017 Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference. His lecture there is titled "Making Sense of Smart Sensors. A Nanotechnology Perspective for Environmental Remediation."…
Professor Prashant Kamat will be traveling during the month of April to give several invited talks. He will be presenting at the ACS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA, where he'll be discussing Mapping of Photocatalytic Processes: Kinetics and surface chemistry dictate the interfacial charge transfer at semiconductor surface. …
NDRL's own Sylwia Ptasinska has been featured in an article by the Center for Sustainable Energy. The link is below.
http://energy.nd.edu/news/precious-joules-women-in-energy-at-notre-dame/…
Sylwia Ptasinska has joined the editorial board of Plasma – open access journal http://www.mdpi.com/journal/plasma/about, which is published quarterly online by MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute).