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September 2009:

- Penny Carmichael, an exchange student from University of Bristol, UK, joined the group for one year of research. Welcome Penny!

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August 2009:

- The SEM images of PbS pine trees from Matt and Albert research won the photo contest at the 17th American Conference on Crystal Growth in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin . It was told that this image received twice as many votes as the runnerup image.

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July 2009:

- Matt Bierman and Andy Schmitt defended their theses in June 2006 and graduated in July 2009. Congratulations Matt and Andy! Matt is currently a postdoc at Caltech and Andy is currently a postdoc at UW-Madison.

- Chad Dooley joins the group. Welcome!

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April 2009:

- An image of the nanowire pine-trees was featured as the cover of nanotoday for April 2009 Vol. 4, Iss. 2.

- Matt Bierman won a MRS Gold Graduate Student Award at the 2009 MRS Spring meeting in San Francisco. Matt has also just accepted a NSF CCI Postdoc Fellowship from Caltech and will begin his postdoc fellowship in September 2009. Congratulations!

- Several of our nanowire pine-tree images debuted at an art exhibit "TINY: Art from Microscopes at UW-Madison" that openned at Madison airport on April 23, 2009. Enjoy these art works while they are still at display when you travel through the MSN airport!

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February 2009:

- Song Jin has been selected to receive the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship. This fellowship provides $50,000 over a 2-year period in recognition of his distinguished performance and his unique potential to make substantial contributions to his field.

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December 2008:

- Our nanowire pine tree images were featured as Portfolio story and shown as several centerfold images in SEED magazine.

- Song discussed solar energy conversion using nanomaterials with McClatchy newspaper group.

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November 2008:

- Matt Bierman's PbS Christmas tree image won Science As Art competition at
the 2008 Fall MRS meeting.

- Our nanowire pine tree images won the Nano Today Cover Competition. One
of them will be on the cover of the first issue of Nano Today in 2009.
Both this cover winner and the runner up images are in the Nano Today
2009 Calendar.

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- Jack DeGrave, Mark Lukowski, and Chris Sichmeller join the group.Welcome aboard!

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- Jeremy wins a Merck Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!

- Jeremy wins a poster award at the 2008 UW Energy Hub Conference.

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May 2008:

- Song won the 2008 Exxon Mobil Solid State Chemistry Fellowship from ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. See announcement in C&EN here.

- Matt and Albert's paper entitled "Dislocation Driven Nanowire Growth and Eshelby Twist" was published in Science. Congratulations!

- Selective Media Coverage on our paper in Science

UW-Madison Press Release and Wisconsin Week

NSF

C&EN

MRS Materials360 (e-Newsletters)

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Institute of Physics (IOP)

Physics World and Nanotechweb

Scientific American

Research Highlights in Nature Nanotechnology

Research Highlights in Nature Chemistry

PhysOrg.com

ScienceDaily

World Science

Technology Research News

ZDNet

Small Times

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April 2008:

- Andy won a silver award at the Spring MRS conference in the MRS Graduate Student Award competition for his talk Ferromagnetic Semiconducting Fe1-xCoxSi Alloy Nanowires−Building Blocks for Silicon-Based Spintronics. He also won a poster award for his poster Ferromagnetic Semiconducting Fe1-xCoxSi Alloy Nanowires: Building Blocks for Silicon Based Spintronics.

- Matt wins the Research Excellece in Materials Chemistry Award. Congratulations!

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January 2008:

- Fairland and Steve's JACS paper on aqueous growth of flexible electronics was highlighted in the January issue of Photonics Spectra magazine.

- The group hosts high school students from the Conserve School for Nanotech Boot Camp. The students enjoyed two days on the UW-Madison campus learning about nanotechnology by listening to lectures, performing hands on labs making ZnO nanocrystals and nickel nanorods, and taking tours of the instrumental, laboratory, and clean room facilities.

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October 2007:

- Matt wins an Air Products Fellowship for 2007-2008. This award comes with nine months of financial support and an on-site internship.

- Steve wins a 3M Fellowship. This award comes with three years of support. Congratulations!

- Julien Yang joins the group. Welcome!

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September 2007:

- Matt has two papers published this month. The first paper, on the role of hydrogen gas on the morphology control of PbS and PbSe nanowires is published in Nano Letters. The second paper published by Advanced Materials is the first demonstration of ferromagnetic semiconducting EuO nanowires and was done in collaboration with Prof. Thomas C. Brunold. Congratulations Matt!

- Our hyperbranched PbS nanowire clusters are featured as the IMAGEinFocus in the Sept. 2007, Vol. 7, Issue 17 MRS Materials360 newsletter. Congratulations Matt and Albert!

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June 2007:

- Song wins a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award for 2007.

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May 2007:

- Jeannine's first paper on chemical vapor transport synthesis of CrSi2 nanowires is published as an article in Chem. Mater. A paper on thermoelectric investigation of these CrSi2 nanowires in collaborating with Prof. Li Shi's group has also been recently published in Nano Lett. Congratulations Jeannine!

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April 2007:

- Song wins a DuPont Young Professor grant for 2007.

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March 2007:

-MRS Bulletin highlights Andy's Chem. Mater. paper on the patterning of silicide nanowires.

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December 2006:

- Andy's paper on the photopaterning of silicide nanowires is published by Chemistry of Materials. See the paper.

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November 2006:

- Andy's poster wins a best poster award at the Fall 2006 MRS National Meeting.

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November 2006:

- Albert Lau and Rachel Selinsky join the group. Welcome!

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September 2006:

- Song Jin is named by MIT's Techonology Review magazine as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35 (TR35 Award) for 2006. Please see the TR35 news release here. Congratulations, Song! Please also see the commentary on nanoelectronics Song wrote for Technology Review here.

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August 2006:

- Andy's paper on CoSi nanowires is published by J. Phys. Chem. B. Follow this link to see the text.

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June 2006:

- Andy's paper on FeSi nanowires is published by Nano Letters! Congratulations! Andy. This is our first paper!

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May 2006:

- Andy Schmitt wins Best Student Poster at the 2006 Argonne Users Meeting--Center for Nanoscale Materials poster session.

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January 2006: 

- Drs. Fairland Amos and Yipu Song join our research group.

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January 2006:

- Song Jin wins an NSF CAREER Award. This award comes with five years of funding (2006-2011). Congratulations to Song on this outstanding accomplishment!

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January 2006:

- Song Jin receives a Nontenured Faculty Award from the 3M Company to support his materials chemistry research.

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