A warm welcome to our new first year students, Ankita Saha and Leo Derr.

Congratulations to Andy Ochs who was awarded a Presidential Fellowship from OSU!

Congratulations to Kelsey Hodge, who has defended her PhD Dissertation!

Kelsey’s has two new papers on her work discovering Zintl Phase Catalysts for Alkyne Semi-/Full- Hydrogenation

In Inorganic Chemistry, Lucky Number 13: A 13-Layer Polytype of the Alkyne Hydrogenation Catalyst CaGaGe

In ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Alkyne Hydrogenation Catalysis across a Family of Ga/In Layered Zintl Phases

Congratulations to Mike Scudder, who graduated with a PhD.

6/12/2021 – On account of his leadership and service to the Department and University, especially as the President of the Joint Safety Task Force, Mike is awarded the 2021 Individual Excellence in Safety Award from OSU’s University Laboratory Safety Committee. Congratulations!

NSF put together an NSF Science Nation video on our discovery of axis-dependent conduction polarity, and our use of the amazing NSF-PARADIM crystal growth facility at Johns Hopkins University to help us grow Re4Si7 crystals.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=187313

The PARADIM user facility is an amazing, one of a kind user facility. We highly recommend it to all researchers interested in crystal and thin film growth.

Mike’s paper on Re4Si7, which shows the viability of transverse thermoelectrics is finally published in Energy and Environmental Sciences.

Lots of Press on Re4Si7 including;

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-gold-standard-compound-electricity.html

https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/tt/0baf2ebe-b566-4170-98ba-a326c10d0e2b

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/31399/20210527/new-layered-crystal-steps-up-future-thermoelectric-devices.htm

https://news.osu.edu/a-new-gold-standard-compound-for-generating-electricity-from-heat/?utm_source=html&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_post&utm_content=heat-thermo-power

Congratulations to Sammy for completing his Honors Thesis, and graduating with Distinction in Biochemistry!

Karl’s paper on the creation and properties of Pb_xSn_4-xAs₃ is out in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C. In our search for new gonipolar materials we discovered a new family of layered Pb-Sn alloy compounds.