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January 2024
The MIMC lab will be relocating to Washington State University in Fall 2024. Kevin is looking forward to moving back to his home state and recruiting students to join the group!
August 2023
The group celebrated Enes Buz’s successful thesis defense! Enes is the group’s 9th doctoral degree recipient and his next adventure will be in the group of Dr. Fabian Menges at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
April 2020
It’s been a long time since the last update although we’ve been very active on Twitter! Some highlights over the past year include Haneen Mansoor winning a P&G Graduate Student Fellowship; new group members Gaurav Mitra and Hyunggu Kim (grads), and Jake Collins (undergrad); and an eventful sabbatical leave for Kevin and his family in Seattle.
May 2019
The group celebrated the successful Final Defenses of Dr. Fumi Kato and Dr. William Harrigan in March and the successful examinations by Haneen (Original Research Proposal) and Enes (Prospectus)! Haneen also saw her first paper published in Frontiers in Chemistry (view here, open access!).
We also welcomed 4 new undergrads for summer research stints in the lab! Welcome Sam, Jacob, Sarah, and Ruby!
September 2018
Kevin is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure! This couldn’t have been possible without great students and the support of Raina, Charlotte, and Samantha.
August 2018
Kevin, AB, and William gave talks at the 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in Boston! AB talked about his work on resolving the role of hydrazine during the synthesis of SrTiO3 nanocrystals and William presented his recent work on spin dynamics in Cr-doped SrTiO3 nanocrystals. Kevin ended the talks by the group on Fumi’s results of Mn2+-doping in decameric CdS nanoclusters.
The group is also enjoying the new labs in the Physical Sciences Building, which we moved into at the end of July.
June 2018
We welcome summer undergraduate research students Anand Ode and Ekeoma Ibe. Anand is an undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Ekeoma just finished her Associates degree from Holyoke Community College and is headed to UMass Lowell in the Fall to start her degree in Biotechnology. Welcome to the MIMC lab!
Congratulations to Fumi for his paper on site-specific doping of Mn2+ ions into CdS-based semiconductor nanoclusters. The paper was accepted in Chemistry of Materials.
March 2018
Winter is still alive and well in New England. On the bright side, Kevin will be giving a talk at the National ACS Meeting in New Orleans on Fumi’s research on controlling the speciation of dopants in metal thiophenolate clusters!
January 2018
The group welcomes new first year student Enes Buz who will be working on colloidal aliovalent ZnO nanocrystals. Enes received his Master’s degree in Chemistry from Koç University in Turkey. Welcome Enes!