OSU’s NSF-sponsored MRSEC center has been renewed to $17.9 million! One of the three major research groups is co-led by Prof. Goldberger and Prof. Kawakami and explores the control of 2D and 1D Electronic Structure by Surface Functionalization of Group-IV Graphane Analogues.

https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/179-million-nsf-grant-renewal-funds-center-for-emergent-materials-broad-impact-science

Josh presents the Goldberger group’s research on 2D Materials at the 2014 Science Writer’s Workshop in Columbus.

Congratulations to Mike Nicholl for winning the first prize poster award in Materials Chemistry at the Midwestern Symposium for Undergraduate Research at Michigan State University.

http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/MSUR/

Here is a story on our new collaborative center on the thermal, electronic, and thermoelectric properties of Ge/Sn graphane analogues.

http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/2-million-nsf-grant-funds-new-materials-research-collaboration

$18-million NSF investment aims to take flat materials to new heights

Prof. Goldberger describes the emerging field of 2D materials beyond graphene in an interview with the Kavli Foundation along with Prof. Tony Heinz at Columbia and Prof. David Muller at Cornell.

Kavli Foundation Interview

Arijit Ghosh earns his PhD! Congratulations!

Congratulations to Fan Fan and Aaron for winning Undergraduate Research Scholar Awards!

Congratulations to Maxx, who won first prize at the 2014 IMR Week poster session for his work on Germanium/Tin graphane alloys!

Congratulations to Elisabeth Bianco who won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award for Graduate School at Rice University, and for Yi-Hsin Liu who will begin as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at National Taiwan Normal University  in August.

Congratulations to Arijit for winning first prize in the poster competition in the Hayes Graduate Research Forum, for his poster on “Probing pH-Triggered Self-Assembling Peptide-based Tumor Imaging Agents in Serum.”