“Quantitative and bond-traceable resonant X-ray optical tensors of organic molecules” V. Murcia, O. Alqahtani, H. Heilman, B. A. Collins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 158001 (2026).[2509.01734] Quantitative and bond-traceable resonant X-ray optical tensors of organic moleculesNow published in PRL!
“Performance of oxygen scavengers incorporated ethylene vinyl alcohol and polypropylene trays for microwave-assisted thermal sterilization”, S. Al-Ghamdi, C.R Sonar, Z. Albahr, O. Alqahtani, M.N. Ibrahim, B. A. Collins, S. S. Sablani, W. M. Elamin Submitted (2025).
“Characterizing nanoscale origins of fibrous texture in high moisture extruded texturized pea protein and chicken breast meat using X-ray scattering”, Sahil Nain, Brian A. Collins, Girish Ganjyal, Submitted (2026).
“Errors in reconstruction of dichroic X-ray orientation tomography due to polarization rotation of the incident beam” M. Marcus, H. Heilman, K. Andrle, J. Plumb, J. Synchrotron Rad. (2026) DOI: 10.1107/S1600577525011051. Dichroic X-ray tomography is a technique in which the crystal orientation or magnetization of a sample is resolved in three dimensions. The best-known uses of […]
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. […]
Semitransparent organic photovoltaics (ST-OPVs) hold promise for agrivoltaics and building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) due to the ability to engineer device absorption profiles. While average visible transmittance (AVT) has been used to address BIPV applications, nothing similar has been defined for agrivoltaics. We introduce Average Chlorophyll Transmittance (ACT) to target agrivoltaics applications whose absorbance anticorrelates with photopic […]
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 […]
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 […]