Graduate student Devin Grabner’s work on characterizing and optimizing microfluidic flow cell geometry for in situ resonant soft X-ray characterization of molecular nanostructures has been published in the RSC Journal: Lab on a Chip. This work directly characterizes the deformation of silicon nitride (SiN) membranes used as windows under experimental conditions for various cell configurations. […]
The WSU Insider has highlighted Tammanna Khan’s recent work in Advanced Materials. Commissioned artwork for the publication shown above depicts a new Fastlane for the red ions that can be opened or closed at the molecular level. The artwork was done by Ryan Allen at Second Bay Studios. Other news media has picked up the […]
Graduate student Harlan Heilman won the Neville B. Smith Award for 1st Place in the ALS Student Poster Competition. “Combining DFT-based optical models with resonant x-ray reflectivity to measure orientation at buried interfaces.” As part of the award, Harlan gave a plenary talk the next day to over 200 people at the main morning session […]
Current graduate student Devin Grabner and former student Dr. Thomas Ferron (2019) were invited to speak on the Early Career Panel at the 2024 Advanced Light Source (ALS) Users Meeting. Devin Grabner was recently hired part-time by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division while finishing his last year of graduate school. Dr. Ferron is […]
Devin Grabner, a member of our group, has dedicated the past few academic years to developing an “Academia to Industry” colloquium series for the physics department, which has since expanded to become a university-wide speaking event. As a result of his efforts to bring these resources to our department and university, Dr. David Giltner, the Founder/CEO […]
Graduate students Harlan Heilman, Acacia Patterson, and Tanner Melody presented their current research at the 78th Annual Northwest Regional Meeting (NORM) of the American Chemical Society, held this year at WSU. Our summer REU student Sydney Pfleiger was also able to attend, providing her with a unique opportunity to learn about other fields of research […]
Gradstudents Acacia Patterson and Tanner Melody presented their work at the Spring MRS meeting in Seattle. Alumnus REU student Ally Hurd also joined the group to present her project, extended at her home institution Macalester College, MN with her mentor Prof. James Doyle. Prof. Collins also presented an invited talk in the Symposium “Beond 20% […]
Graduate student Devin Grabner’s work on characterizing in-situ nanostructure and loading of novel polysoap micelles has been published in Langmuir. The work reveals the impressive capture and loading of aromatic cargo for therapeutics and water purification. In-situ characterization shows this is due to an open corona structure likely controlled through macroion charging. The work titled […]
Graduate student Acacia Patterson has successfully defended her Master’s Thesis Project titled “Morphology-driven comprehensive charge loss analysis of organic photovoltaics processed with non-halogenated solvents.” Her project focused on quantifying all fundamental losses in the model system PCDTBT:PCBM and correlating these to morphological changes from replacing the traditional toxic halogenated solvent processing with non-halogen processing. She […]
New work on a better processing additive for OPVs lead by gradstudent Obaid Alqahtani has been published in ACS Energy Letters. The highest OPV efficiencies, now reaching 20% solar power conversion efficiency, are obtained by solvent additives that enhance nanodomain/crystallinity formation, but often result in runnaway crystallization with small processing fluctuations. the new work shows […]