News
| 7/9/2024 Sabin successfully passed his qualifying exam. Congratulations! |
8/13/2023 Farewell party for Kiran (the 4th one from the left) who has completed his M.S. research here and will continue his Ph.D. research at the University of Toledo.  |
5/27/2023 Farewell party for Yiteng (the tallest one in the photo) who has completed his postdoctoral research here and will start his new position at the University of Central Florida.  |
| 9/25/2022 Zhoufeng's paper "Colloidal Nanoribbons: From Infrared to Visible" is published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Congratulations! |
| 8/19/2022 Tharaka's paper "Dielectrically Confined Stable Excitons in Few-Atom-Thick PbS Nanosheets" is published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Congratulations! |
| 8/8/2022 Our former group member Jordan has accepted the job offer from Intel. He will work as a process engineer in Hillsboro, Oregon. Congratulations! | 7/5/2022 Our former group member Tharaka has accepted the scholarship offer from the University of Manchester (UK) to continue his Ph.D. study. He will study photon physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Congratulations! |
2/7/2022 Conor received his 2022 CURS spring grant. Congratulations! |
1/28/2022 Congratulations to Shashini for her new job at Intel! She will work as a development engineer in Hillsboro, Oregon. |
9/27/2021 Yiteng's paper on branchless PbS nanorods is published on ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congratulations! |
6/3/2020 Tharaka successfully defended his M. S. thesis. Congratulations! |
3/30/2020 Tharaka received the J. Robert and Gretchen Overman Scholarship Award for his outstanding academic performance. Congratulations! |
8/25/2019 Farewell party for Shashini (the 5th from the left) who graduated with her Ph.D. degree in Photochemical Sciences. Congratulations!  |
8/17/2019 Shashini (middle), Asanga Ramanayaka (Shashini's husband), and Liangfeng (left) at the summer commencement of 2019.  |
7/1/2019 Liangfeng (the PI) received an NSF fund to support the research on exciton dynamics in colloidal PbS nanosheets. Congratulations! |
4/18/2019 Shashini received Outstanding Research Assistant Award. Congratulations! |
3/27/2019 Jordan Fox, our undergraduate researcher, received Bowman research award for his work on colloidal nanosheets. Congratulations! |
11/15/2018 Liangfeng delivered an oral presentation "Making the Colloidal 2D PbS Brighter" in the symposium "Beyond-Graphene 2D Materials-Synthesis, Properties and Device Applications" of MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. |
10/24/2018 Liangfeng delivered an invited talk "Synthesis and Optical Spectroscopy of Colloidal PbS Nanosheets" at the nanoGe Fall Meeting in Torremolinos, Spain. |
7/10/2018 Farewell party for Chandra (the third from the right) who will go to University of Rhode Island for his Ph.D. study. Chandra got offers from University of Dayton, University of Toledo and University of Alabama at Birmingham too, but he thought University of Rhode Island is the best.  |
5/8/2018 Antara's manuscript on bright PbS nanoribbons is accepted by Chemistry of Materials. Congratulations! |
3/22/2018 Zhoufeng successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations! |
3/5/2018 Joshua Hudak was awarded the Spring CURS Grant for his research on quantum-dot energy transfer. Congratulations! |
12/21/2017 Liangfeng Sun was awarded the SEA Change Ventures Grant (with Prof. Fei Gao) to incorporate innovative pedagogies in his undergraduate teaching. Congratulations! |
7/23/2017 Farewell party for Antara. Yiteng, Seth, Chandra, Asange, Shashini, Antara, Eric and Liangfeng (from left to right) enjoyed the authentic Chinese food in Chuancai Fang restaurant located in Toledo.  |
6/21/2017 Antara successfully defended her thesis, Congratulations! |
4/4/2017 Congratulations to Antara, she got two Ph.D. program offers: one from University of Dayton and the other from University of Cincinnati! |
1/16/2017 The physics-rich paper "Topological, Valleytronic, and Optical Properties of Monolayer PbS" is now published in Advance Materials. It is a collaborative paper by researchers in BIT, BGSU and UT Dallas. |
10/7/2016 OSAPS meeting was hosted by BGSU. Yiteng, Shashini, Antara, Liangfeng, Zhoufeng and Cody (left to right) stood in front of our posters.  |
10/04/2016 Shashini's paper "A robust method for the synthesis of colloidal PbS nanosheets" has been accepted for publishing on Phys. Status Solidi RRL. Congratulations to all coauthors! |
9/27/2016 Shreedhar's paper "One-dimensional growth of colloidal PbSe nanorods in chloroalkanes" has been accepted for publishing on Phys. Status Solidi RRL. Congratulations to all coauthors! |
7/10/2016 Farewell party for Shailendra who will go to Clemson University for his Ph.D. study.  |
6/19/2016 Zhoufeng and Simeen's paper on " Few-Atom-Thick Colloidal PbS/CdS Core/Shell Nanosheets" is accepted by Chemistry of Materials. Congratulations! |
5/4/2016 Dr. Attygalle from University of Sri Jayawardenepura in Sri Lanka visited our group. She will work with us on device simulation for about one month. Welcome! |
4/21/2016 Shailendra was awarded Overman Scholarship. Congratulations! |
4/6/2016 Dr. Wang arrived at BGSU from China. He will work with our group for one year, as a visiting scholar. Welcome! |
1/11/2016 Yiteng joined our group. Welcome! |
10/15/2015 Welcome Cody, Joey, Antara and Fangnan to our group!  |
10/5/2015 Former graduate Matthew Leopold got a job as an research associate at BASF. Congratulations! |
9/30/2015 Cody Stombaugh was awarded the CURS fall grant for his research on quantum-dot biolabling. Congratulations! |
8/24/2015 Zhoufeng's paper "Growth of Colloidal PbS Nanosheets and the Enhancement of Their Photoluminescence" was published in PCCP, congratulations! |
7/1/2015 The PI got an ACS PRF grant which will support two graduates and two undergraduates for two years. |
5/1/2015 Shreedhar got Overman award. Congratulations! |
3/22/2015 The PI got the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship. |
2/13/2015 Formal group member Nick Reilly got admitted to a PhD program in University of Rochester. Congratulations! |
12/17/2014 Zhoufeng passed his qualify exam. Congratulations! |
9/25/2014 Shailendra joined our group as a MS student. Welcome! |
9/18/2014 Ghadendra and Kamal's paper on colloidal PbS nanosheets has been published in Chemistry of Materials. Congratulations! |
8/7/2014 Farewell party for Ghadendra and Kamal.  |
4/18/2014 Shelby is awarded for the Summer 2014 CURS grant. Congratulations! |
4/16/2014 We have an opening of a research assistant position for a Ph.D. student in the photochemical sciences program (Fall, 2014). Talk to Dr. Sun if you had interest. |
4/15/2014 Nick Reilly's research work on "Ultrasmall Colloidal PbS Quantum Dots" has resulted in a manuscript accepted by Materials Chemistry and Physics. Michael Wehrung and Ryan O'Dell are also the coauthors of the paper. Congratulations! |
4/5/2014 Kamal Subedi and Ghadendra Bahadur Bhandari gave an oral presentation about colloidal semiconductor nanosheets at the 2014 Spring meeting of the Ohio-Section of the American Physical Society at the Youngstown State University, Ohio. |
4/5/2014 Matthew Leopold gave an oral presentation about FRET in quantum-dot films at the 2014 Spring meeting of the Ohio-Section of the American Physical Society at the Youngstown State University, Ohio. |
4/1/2014 Kamal Subedi was honored with the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations! |
3/15/2014 Ghadendra Bahadur Bhandari was admitted to the Ph.D. program in the department of physics, University of Pittsburgh. Congratulations! |
1/9/2014 Shreedhar Raj Kandel and Simeen Khan joined our group. |
5/9/2013 The X-ray diffractometer is up for running after a new computer is installed. |
5/4/2013 Congratulations to Kamal Subedi and Ghadendra Bahadur Bhandari! Their presentation on nanosheets to be given in the 44th ACS Central Regional Meeting is upgraded to a invited talk. |
4/29/2013 Congratulations to Ryan Andrew O'Dell! He got accepted to a Ph.D. program in the University of Toledo. |
8/7/2013 Farewell party for Ryan and Brandon.  |
9/10/2012 The research work on quantum-dot LEDs is reported on BGSU Zoom News and other website such as Nanowerk. |
8/3/2012 The X-ray diffractometer is up for running after maintenance. |
7/20/2012 Ryan was awarded BOSEF (Building Ohio's Sustainable Energy Future) graduate student scholarship. |
6/12/2012 SEM images of the colloidal PbS nanocrystals synthesized in our lab recently. The monodispersed nanocrystals show size of about 6nm in diameter.   |
5/7/2012 Liangfeng Sun's article "Bright infrared quantum-dot light-emitting diodes through inter-dot spacing control" was published in Nature Nanotechnology. |
4/26/2012 Paul Husband was enrolled into the SETGO summer program 2012. |
4/26/2012 Thomas John James Hopkins was enrolled into the SETGO summer program 2012. |
4/17/2012 Liangfeng Sun received FRC Major Research Grant from BGSU. |
12/12/2011 Liangfeng Sun joined the Center for Photochemical Sciences. |
12/5/2011 Tao Jiang joined the group. |
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