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 […]
Recent graduate, Tamanna Khan has had her PhD work published in in Advanced Materials. Her work titled “Local Chemical Enhancement and Gating of Organic Coordinated Ionic-Electronic Transport” reports on the discovery of how ion transport can be concentrated, accelerated, and gated inside a nanochannel ‘ion superhighway.’ This was achieved by lining the nanochannel with either […]
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 […]
Undergraduate physics majors Chris Lum and Elijah Allen presented posters of their thesis work in the Collins lab at the WSU Physics and Astronomy Fall 2023 Symposium. Chris’ thesis is titled “Charge mobility of organic semiconductors.” Chris measured the hole mobility in the OLED polymer F8BT using the space charge limited current technique on devices […]
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 […]
Obaid Alqahtani successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Structure-property correlations in heterojunction organic solar cells across material systems via synchrotron X-ray techniques”. He completed his candidacy with his PhD committee including advisor Assoc. Prof. Brian Collins (Chair), Prof. Katie Zhong, and Prof. Matthew McCluskey. Obaid will continue in the group this summer as a postdoc […]
Undergraduate Emma Speight was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Senior in Physics ceremony for all programs in the College. Here thesis work in the Collins Lab involved optical investigations of printed organic electronic active layers under different conditions. She is pictured with Collins and Prof. of Physics Fred Gittes. Emma will continue […]
Acacia Patterson has been awarded the William J. Shelton Scholarship from the College of Arts and Sciences. The competitive scholarship is awarded to promising graduate students in the sciences. Along with this honor Acacia will receive $3000. Congratulations!