Prashant Kamat to Co-organize Upcoming Symposia.
The NDRL is pleased to announce that Prashant Kamat will be co-organizing two symposia in the upcoming year.
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Abigail Swint to Receive Fellowship
Congratulations to Abigail Swint for being selected to receive the 2015 Forgash Undergraduate Student Fellowhip in Solar Energy Research.
Success of Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductors Explained
Work by Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering graduate student Joe Manser has demonstrated, by pump-probe transient absorption spectroscopy, that photoexcited charges in a new class of semiconducting materials, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites, exist in an inherently unbound state.
Graduate Student Awarded Fellowships
NDRL Graduate Research Assistant and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering student Jeff Christians has been awarded two fellowships through programs at the University of Notre Dame.
NDRL Graduate Student passes PH.D. Candidacy
NDRL Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate student Yong-Siou Chen passed his oral candidacy exam on November 7, 2014, with his presentation titled
Notre Dame paper offers insights into a new class of semiconducting materials
A new paper by University of Notre Dame researchers describes their investigations of the fundamental optical properties of a new class of semiconducting materials known as organic-inorganic “hybrid” perovskites.
Prashant Kamat elected as Prevasi Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
As of January 1, 2015 Prashant Kamat will be one of only 94 Prevasi (India-born Foreign) Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
Radiation Chemistry Gordon Research Conference
NDRL faculty member Jay LaVerne chaired the 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Radiation Chemistry, this year subtitled “Radiation Driven Processes in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Industry”.
Congratulations to Sachi Krishnamurthy
Recent graduate Dr. Sachidananda Krishnamurthy has obtained a joint postdoctoral position between UT Dallas and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
James Radich
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering graduate student James Radich, working with Prashant Kamat, was a co-recipient of the Graduate Student Award of the Energy Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
Notre Dame Faculty Scholarship Research Grant Success
Congratulations to NDRL faculty member Sylwia Ptasinska on her award of a FY 2014 Faculty Scholarship Research Program Initiation Grant to study "Dosimetry of cold atmospheric plasmas for medical applications."
Jay LaVerne elected to RRS board
Congratulations to NDRL faculty member Jay LaVerne on his election to the position of Chemistry Councilor for the Radiation Research Society.
Supported graphene oxide is surprisingly unstable
Research by graduate student James Radich has revealed a previously unexpected sensitivity to UV light of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) on TiO2 nanoparticles in aqueous suspensions.
Sarah Reiff
Graduate student Sarah Reiff organized and co-chaired the outstandingly successful Gordon Research Seminar on Radiation Chemistry this Summer (July 13-18) at Proctor Academy.