Dr. David M. Bartels will be traveling to the Miller Conference held in Manchester, U.K. during September. While there, he will giving a talk at University of Leeds on September 16th, and the University of Manchester on September 17th. His talk is titled, "Partial Molar Volume of the Hydrated Electron…
Professor Prashant Kamat will present at the 2019 American Chemical Society National Meeting in August. His presentation is titled, "Intricacies of Halide Ion Mobility in Metal Halide Perovskites."
Dr. Jay LaVerne of the Radiation Laboratory will be giving a lecture at the American Chemical Society fall meeting in San Diego, California, this August. His presentation is titled, "Radiation Effects in Molten Salts."
Professor Sylwia Ptasinska will be traveling to Belgrade to attend the International Workshop on Low-Energy Positron and Positronium Physics, and the International Symposium on Electron-Molecule Collisions and Swarms. While there, she will be presenting a paper titled "Electron-Induced Fragmentation…
Professor Prashant Kamat from the Radiation Laboratory will be presenting at several conferences in June. He will be presenting "Quantum Dots to Perovskites. Tuning Semiconductor Nanostructures for Light Energy Conversion" at the Nankai International Conference on Solar Energy Conversion in China.…
Professor Ireneusz Janik from the Radiation Laboratory will be attending the 74th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He will present his paper titled, "Vibrational Spectroscopy of CS2- Radical Anion in Water."
Sylwia Ptasinska of the Radiation Laboratory and Physics departments is among the twenty University of Notre Dame faculty members that have received the Rev. Edmund P.Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
The Joyce Awards, established in 2007, are supported by a gift…
Patricia Huestis has won an award from the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. This supplemental award is given to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory. Patricia will spend the summer of 2019 working at…
Professor Kamat will be doing several presentations during the month of February. He is traveling to New Delhi, India, to be the keynote speaker for the Conference of Hybrid and Perovskite Cells, being held from February 4th through the 6th at the Indian Institute of Technology. While in India, Professor…
Amal Sebastian has received the Forgash Fellowship Award. The Forgash fellowship provides a $5,000 award to an undergraduate or graduate student who is interested in solar energy collection/conversion technologies through research and development. His project, entitled Atmospheric Pressure Plasma:…
Professor Prashant Kamat of the Radiation Laboratory will be traveling overseas this December to lecture. He will be presenting the plenary talk at the Frontiers in Chemical Sciences Conference being held December 6th through the 8th, organized by the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology…
Professor Kamat has been invited to talk at the annual Materials Research Society Meeting in November of 2018. His talk is titled, "Charge Injection from Excited CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals into TiO2 in Perovskite and its Role in the Degradation of Perovskite Layer in Visible Light."
Professor Sylwia Ptasinska will be traveling to Portland, Oregon the November for the 71st Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2018). She has been invited to present "Dissociative Electron Attachment to Gas-Phase Molecules" and "In situ Measurements of Total Yield of Species Originating from…
Professor Kamat will be traveling to Brookhaven National Laboratory to present a seminar in November 2018. His talk is titled, "Intricacies of Halide Ion Movement in Mixed Halide Lead Perovskites."
Dr. Jay LaVerne will be presenting at the Condensed and Phase Interfacial Molecular Science Meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland, this October. He talk is titled, "Radiation Stability of Aromatic Compounds."
Professor Carmichael will be attending the Condensed Phase and Interfacial Molecular Science meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland, this October. He will be presenting on "Fundamental Advances in Radiation Chemistry."
Congratulations to Dr. Dave Bartels and Dr. Jay LaVerne for being rewarded a grant by the Department of Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). They will be receiving $400,000 over the next three years to study Radiolytic Dissolution Rate of Silicon Carbide.
Sylwia Ptasinska will be traveling to Germany to attend the Fifth International Conference of Dynamics of Systems on the Nanoscale this October where she has been invited to talk. Her presentation is titled, "Effects of Plasma Reactive Species on Biomolecular Systems."
Professor Kamat has been invited to the Universidad de Cordba in Argentina to attend the Conference on Photovoltaics and Optoelectronic Devices (CELFI) this September. He will be speaking on "Nanostructures for Energy Conversion - Quantum Dot Solar Cells and Perovskite Solar Cells," and "How to Make…
Professor Ptasinska will be presenting at the Radiation Research Society Meeting on September 26, 2018, in Chicago. Her talk is titled, "Plasma Radiation-induced Chemistry in Molecular Systems."