The Group

Current group members

Graduate Students

Kyle Czech	Lianna Dang
Kyle studies the relation between physical and electronic structures of nanomaterials.	Lianna works on screw dislocation-driven nanostructured material growth.
Wenjie Li	Yuzhou Zhao
Wenjie works on materials for energy conversion and storage.	Yuzhou works on 2D transition metal chalcogenides Materials.
Nitish Mathur	Matthew Hautzinger
Nitish works on Magnetic Skyrmions Project.	Matt works on the synthesis and characterization of novel materials for photovoltaic applications.
Dongxu Pan	Hongyuan Sheng
Dongxu works on the synthesis and application of perovskite materials.	Hongyuan is working on LDHs for electrocatalytic water splitting.
Tim Tiambeng	Natalia Spitha
Tim is a joint student with the Ge group working on the nanoproteomics project.	Natalia is a joint student with the Wright group, studying the excited-state dynamics of perovskites through photoluminescence and multidimensional spectroscopy.
David Roberts	Chris Roy
David is a joint student with the Ge group working on the nanoproteomics project.	Chris works in collaboration with the Wright group to study the photophysical properties of perovskite materials.
Dominic Ross
Dominic works on the synthesis and characterization of non-precious metal electrocatalysts

Postdocs
Hui-Chun Fu


Visiting Graduate Students
Ming-Yu Kuo	Jing Li
Ming-Yu focuses on perovskite project.	Jing cooperates with Wright group on the perovskite spectral study.
Jinzhen Huang
Jinzhen's research is focused on developing nanocomposite for electrocatalytic reaction.
Visiting Scholars
Fengmei Wang	Tianqi Guo
My major research interests include synthesis and development of novel 2D materials, such as transition metal chalcogenides, meal phosphorous trichalcogenides, etc., for electrocatalysis or photocatalysis.	Tianqi focuses on electrocatalysis.