Early Career Investigator Events
Friday, July 20, 2018 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Jinbo Pan, Ravneet Kaur Bhullar, and Hongwei Wang
Friday, July 6, 2018 - Journal Club
Paper: TBD
Friday, June 8, 2018 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Himanshu Chakraborty, Parisa Yasini, and Tim Marshall
Friday, April 27, 2018 at 1:30pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Akila Thenuwara, Melissandre Richard, Ruiyu Wang
Friday, April 6, 2018 at 11:00am - Meeting
Farbod Alimohammadi
Antimicrobial Mode-of-Action of 2D Nanomaterials
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Zhaoru Sun, Kanishka Wijesekara, Nuwan Attanayake
Friday, March 2, 2018 - Journal Club
Paper: Proton-Transfer Mechanisms at the Water−ZnO Interface: The Role of Presolvation
Friday, January 26, 2018 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Richard Remsing, Farbod Alimohammadi, and Parisa Yasini
1T Monolayer, Interlayer Expanded and (Photo)catalytic Applications: A MoS2 Story
Friday, December 15, 2017 at 12:00pm - Meeting
Matthaeus Wolak
Nanoporous-Carbon Based Anode Materials for High-Performance Li-Ion Energy Storage With Increased Specific Capacity
Friday, October 27, 2017 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Huta Banjade, Mark DelloStritto, Dan Trainer, Ran Ding
Friday, September 29, 2017 - Journal Club
Paper: High-Mobility Transport Anisotropy and Linear Dichroism in Few-Layer Black Phosphorus
Friday, September 1, 2017 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Mark DelloStritto
H-bond Structure and Spectroscopy at Interfaces from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Friday, August 4, 2017 - Journal Club
Paper: 1s-Intraexcitonic Dynamics in Monolayer MoS2 Probed by Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
Friday, June 9, 2017 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Zhaoru Sun
X-ray Absorption Spectra in Liquid Water by Advanced Modeling
Friday, June 1, 2017 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Joel Berry
Strain, Defects, and Composition in Bendable 2D Heterostructures: New Territory in Thermomechanics
Friday, March 31, 2017 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Samantha Shumlas
Investigations of the Birnessite Interlayer for Water Oxidation Chemistry
Friday, February 24, 2017 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Abhirup Patra and Nuwan Attanayake
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - Journal Club
Paper: Ti3C2 MXene Co-Catalyst on Metal Sulfide Photo-Absorbers for Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production
Friday, January 20, 2017 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Jinbo Pan
High-Throughput Computation of Novel Two-Dimensional Materials
Friday, January 13, 2017 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Ian McKendry
Modifying 2D Layered Manganese Oxide for Enhanced Water Oxidation
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - Journal Club
Paper: Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Enhanced Absorption in MoS2−Organic van der Waals Heterojunctions Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces
Paper: Flexible N-Type Thermoelectric Materials by Organic Intercalation of Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide TiS2
Friday, November 11, 2016 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Alika Thenuwara
Probing Phonons with Theory and Experiments
Friday, October 21, 2016 - Journal Club
Paper: Role of Structure and Defect Chemistry in High-Performance Thermoelectric Bismuth Strontium Cobalt Oxides
Friday, October 14, 2016 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Liping Yu
Phase Engineering of Bendable Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers
Friday, September 16, 2016 - Journal Club
Paper: How Doped MoS2 Breaks Transition-Metal Scaling Relations for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction
Friday, September 2, 2016 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Qiao Qiao
Study of the Atomic and Electronic Structures of 1T-TiSe2 Using Analytical TEM
Friday, August 5, 2016 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Bernardo Barbiellini & Christopher Lane
The Interaction of Atomic Hydrogen with Au under Optical Plasmonic Excitation
Friday, August 5, 2016 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Du Zhang
Part I: Efficient Calculation of Excitation Energies with the Particle-Particle Random Phase Approximation and Part II: Computational Study of Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Single-Layer MoS2
Friday, June 10, 2016 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Joel Berry
Exploring Crystal Structure Transformations in Strain-Engineered 2D TMDs
Friday, June 3, 2016 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Ravneet Bhullar, Abhirup Patra, and Songsong Zhou
Friday, May 6, 2016 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Aleksei Putilov, Himanshu Chakraborty, Tomas Polakovic, and Chandra Shahi
Friday, April 15, 2016 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Yaroslav Aulin, Nuwan Attanayake, Dino Sengupta
Friday, March 11, 2016 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk
Chalk Talkers: Richard Remsing
Friday, March 4, 2016 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Daniel Trainer
Fabrication and STM Characterization of Atomically Thin Molybdenum Disulfide Films
Friday, February 5, 2016 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk & Happy Hour
Chalk Talkers: Shuyang Dai, Sam Shumlas, Liping Yu, and Kanishka Wijesekara
Friday, January 15, 2016 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Bernardo Barbiellini & Christopher Lane
The Interaction of Atomic Hydrogen with Au under Optical Plasmonic Excitation
Friday, December 11, 2015 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Chau Nguyen
Adminstrative Q&A and Webex Tutorial
Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 4:00pm - Chalk Talk & Happy Hour
Chalk Talkers: Rick Remsing, Zhaoru Sun, Loranne Vernisse, and Akila Thenuwara
Friday, November 13, 2015 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Richard Remsing
A Role for Confined Water in Catalysis by Layered Transition Metal Oxide
Friday, September 11, 2015 at 12:30pm - Meeting
Haowei Peng
SCAN+rVV10: A Promising Density Functional for van der Waals Interaction in Layered Materials
Friday, July 24, 2015 at 12:00pm - Academic Faculty Job Search Round Table (Part 2)
Friday, July 17, 2015 at 2:00pm - Speed Collaboration
Friday, June 26, 2015 at 12:00pm - Academic Faculty Job Search Round Table (Part 1)