Group News
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March 2025
Two more papers!
We are extremely glad to announce that we have two papers accepted this March! Please stay tuned for the link on the Publications page.
If you are interested in learning how to model ligand binding on quantum dots and understand their roles, you must check out our newest perspective on "Opportunities and challenges in modelling ligand adsorption on semiconductor nanocrystals" published with Communications Chemistry.
We also provided theoretical insights into the order-to-disorder transition of Au nanocrystals on hematite in "In-situ study of heterogeneous crystal growth of gold nanoparticles on hematite facets," accepted by Chemistry of Materials.
February 2025
Our new paper!
We are excited to share that our recent paper titled "Towards Computation-Guided Design of Tunable Organic-Inorganic CdS Quantum Dot Binary Superlattices" just got accepted by Nano Letters! In this paper, we reported a novel binary peptoid-quantum dot coassembly and showed the power of theoretical work in understanding the underlying mechanism and guiding further experiment directions. Congratulations to all involved!
October 2024
Halloween Extravaganza 2024 🎃
We made an electric Corgi!
September 2024
New members!
We welcome Jianming Cui to join the group as the first postdoc! Jianming graduated from Penn State Chemical Engineering with an extensive background in advanced molecular dynamics algorithms. He will lead several projects in the group, including machine learning force field development for solid-state systems.
We also welcome Nakyeong Ahn to rotate in our group in September and October 2024. Nakyeong will work on advancing the computational toolkit to study heterogeneous catalysis. We look forward to having her formally in November!
June 2024
Gazzaniga Family Science Award
Congratulations to Mary Ma on being the co-winner of the 2024 Gazzaniga Family Science Award! The Gazzaniga Family Science Award is a highly competitive and prestigious award from Dartmouth Arts and Sciences to recognize students with the highest achievement in research. Mary is a stellar researcher, and she very well deserves the award. In addition, Mary also received the Haseltine Chemistry and Physics Award, class of 2024. Well done, Mary!
