Decemeber 2023:
- The group welcomes Varsha, Connor, Rukshanthan, and Romesh
- Nabojit is recognized with an MRS silver medal and the MRS Arthur Nowick Grad Student Award
- Nabojit receives a Science as Art competition at MRS
- Nabojit wins a Powerpoint Karaoke best slide at MRS
- Maha receives a Leadership Development Award from ACS
- members of the group participate in outreach at Wonderlab!
November 2023:
- Undergrad Claire Fissel joins the group
- Max Perkins is selected for Phi Beta Kappa
- Emily, Nayana, and Megan present at Pindu
October 2023:
- Congrats to Megan and Ekta on their Travel Awards from the Executive Dean
- Congrats to Sarah on passing her qual
- Congrats to Kaustav, Jared and collaborators on paper in APL
- Nabojit, Max, Josh, Sandra, and Ibrahim publish in Nature Synthesis
September 2023:
- Megan passes her qualifying exam
- Nil joins the group
August 2023:
- Nabojit receives a Research Development and Travel Grant from the RSC
July 2023:
- Anne and Sara publish a Chem Ed paper
- Matt defends his PhD thesis
- Nabojit receives the Felix Haurowitz award
- Maha receives a Mann fellowship and the Trinosky Award
- Nayana receives the Carroll Family Fellowship and Merritt Award
- Nayana attends the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainability
- Chaeeun Ma from Ewha joins the group for a summer research experience
June 2023:
- Nayana and Sara participate in JUAMI, Nairobi Kenya
- Kaustav defends his PhD thesis! Congrats!
- Matt's paper is published in Inorganic Chemistry
May 2023:
- Nabojit begins an internship at Corteva
- Max Perkins receives a Chemistry Summer Research Fellowship for undergraduates
- Kaustav presents in the end of the year symposium
- Nayana is accepted into the ACS Green Chemistry Summer School
April 2023:
- Congrats to Emily Ward. She will be attending the Thermal Energy Management on Multiple Scales Research Experience for Undergraduates.
- Nabojit receives a first place prize for his Science as Art submission at MRS
- Nabojit receives a travel award from the College of Arts and Sciences to support his participation at the Spring MRS Conference.
- Nabojit is recognized with the best oral presentation award of the SF01 Symposium at MRS
- Emily Ward has received the Drs. Sidney and Becca Fleischer Research Scholarship!
- Ekta passes her qualifying exam
- Anne finishes her sabbatical with us
March 2023:
- Congrats to Nabojit on being selected for a Kindig Fellowship
- Hongxiao Xiang spends a month as visiting student!
- Megan Knobeloch wins a best poster award from the colloid division at ACS Indy
- The group rocks ACS Indy!
- Yuda passes his candidacy exam!
- Nabojit completes in the regional 3-minute thesis contest
February 2023:
- Congrats to Nabojit on his paper in Nanoscale
- Congrats to Nabojit on completing his qualifying exam
- Congrats to Nabojit on winning IU's 3-minute thesis competition
January 2023:
- Congrats to Jack on his paper in ACS Physical Chemistry Au
- Congrats to Nabojit on his paper in Nanoscale
Decemeber 2022:
- Ibrahim completes his MS. Congrats!
- Aditi joins the group!
November 2022:
- Matt, Nayana, and Kaustav publish a perspective in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
- Nayana wins best poster at PINDU
- Nayana, Ekta, Matt, Nabojit, Jack, Kaustav, and Anne present at PINDU
- Zach and collaborators publish in Nanoscale
- Matt presents at Ohio Inorganic Weekend
- Congrats to Kaustav on being named an MRS future leader
October 2022:
- Congrats to Kaustav and collaborators on their paper in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
- Sara speaks at SHIFT 2022
- Congrats to Sandra and collaborators on their paper in ACS Nano
September 2022:
- Congrats to Sara on establishing the Center for Single Entity Nanochemistry and Nanocrystal Design
- Congrats to Jack on his paper in Chemical Communications
June 2022:
- Congrats to Zach on completion of his PhD
- Megan, Maha, and Jack present at the Noble Metal Nanoparticles GRC
May 2022:
- Congrats to Josh Wolfe on completion of his undergraduate degree
- Congrats to Kelly on completing her PhD
- Kaustav and Zach present at MRS Hawaii
- Congrats to Kaustav on his MRS Silver Award
- Congrats to Maha on being selected for a Paget Travel Award
- Congrats to Kaustav on receiving the Lynne Merritt Award
- Kaustav presents at ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
April 2022:
- Congrats Kelly on her paper in Nanoscale!
- Congrats to Kaustav on his 2nd place finish at the 3-Minute Thesis Pitch
- Congrats to Kaustav on his Travel Award from the College of Arts & Sciences
- Congrats to Nayana on being selected for the 24th National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering
- Congrats to Maha on her Provost's Travel Award
- Congrats to Kaustav on receiving the Carroll Family Fellowship
March 2022:
- Jack and Nayana present at the ACS Spring Conference
- Youngtae completes his stay in the research group - way to go!
- Congrats to Maha on her co-authorship in Chem Comm
- Congrats to Matt on his paper in Acta Crystallographica C!
February 2022:
- Congrats to Nayana and Jack on their Paget Travel Grants!
- We welcome Emily Ward back to the research group!
- Kaustav presents at Indiana Science Communication Day
January 2022:
- We welcome Megan and Sarah to the group
December 2021:
- Megan and Sarah join the group
- Hannah's paper is published in ACS Materials Au
- Matt and Kaustav present at MRS Boston
November 2021:
- Hannah becomes Dr!
- Nayana passes her qualifying exam
- Hannah's paper is published in ACS Applied Nano Materials
- Matt, Maha, Kaustav, and Nayana present posters at PINDU
October 2021:
- Maha completes her qualifying exam
- Zach publishes a perspective in JPC-C!
- Youngtae Park joins the group as a visiting student
September 2021:
- Kaustav Chatterjee receives the 1st place lightning research talk at ACS Predicts
- Sandra defends her PhD!
- Max McCoy joins the group as an undergrad researcher
August 2021:
- Kaustav and Nayana present their work at Microscopy and Microanalysis!
July 2021:
- Emily Ward completes her summer research opportunity!
- Nayana and Matt present their reasearch at the North American Solid State Conference
- Congrats to Kaustav on his Perspective in Applied Materials and Interfaces!
- Congrats to Kaustav on his selection to participate in the ACS Leads Conference.
June 2021:
- Congrats to Maha on her Perspective in Small Structures!
June 2021:
- We welcome Emily Ward to the group!
- Sara is named a Blavatnik National Awards Finalist
- We welcome Megan Knobeloch to the group
- Alex Chen defends his PhD! Congrats!
May 2021:
- Kaustav speaks at the Midwest Materials Symposium sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich
- Congrats to Matt on being selected as a participant for ARPA-E's 2021 summit
- Congrats to Zach and Alex on their paper in JPC-C
- Congrats to Sandra, Xun, Josh, and Kaustav on their paper in ACS AMI!
April 2021:
- Congrats to Emma and Jared on their acceptances into graduate school
- Sandra, Kaustav, Matt, and Sara present at ACS!
- Sara presents at MRS!
February 2021:
- Congrats to Josh, Reza, Nate, Jerry, and Maha on their paper in ACS Nano
- Congrats to Alex, Emma, and collaborators on their paper in Nanoscale
January 2021:
- Congrats to Mattea on her lecturer position at Ball State University
- Congrats to Yifan and collaborators on their paper in Nanoscale Horizons
December 2020:
- Congrats to Sandra, Hannah, and Ibrahim on their Accounts of Chemical Research
- Congrats to Kaustav on his paper in Chemistry of Materials
- Congrats to Matt on his paper in Inorganic Chemistry
November 2020:
- Congrats to Sara on her appointment as EIC for Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters
- Congrats to Sara on being named a fellow of AAAS
October 2020:
- Congrats to graduate students Josh Smith and Mattea Scanlan on their manuscript in ACS Nano!
September 2020:
- Congrats to graduate student Josh Smith on completing his PhD!
- Congrats to graduate student Kaustav Chatterjee on completing his qualifying exam
May 2020:
- Congrats to graduate student Alex Chen on his paper in Dalton Transactions
- Congrats to graduate student Kelly Rudman on receiving the Kratz fellowship
- Congrats to undergraduate researchers Emma, Josh, and Jared on their summer research fellowships
April 2020:
- Congrats to Josie Gamler and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Collaborators on their paper in ACS Catalysis!
- Congrats to graduate student Kaustav Chatterjee who has been selected for a 2020 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Scholar Award!
March 2020:
- Congrats to former undergraduate researcher Sophie McClain who was selected for a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation!
- Congrats to graduate student Kaustav Chatterjee who was selected for a spring travel award from the IU Graduate and Professional Student Government
- Graduate students Matt Gordon and Sandra Bueno present their research at the Indiana Science Communication Day 2020
- Sara serves as subject chair for #RSCNano of the 202 #RSCPoster Twitter Conference
- Sara joins the editorial advisory boards of Small Structures (Wiley) and NS Applied Sciences (Nature-Springer)
Feb 2020:
- Congrats to Sandra on her paper in ChemNanoMat
- Congrats to Josie and collaborators on their HOT paper in Nanoscale Advances
- Congrats to Matt Gordon on being selected as a finalist in the 3 minute thesis competition
- Congrats to Sandra on being selected for a Carl Storm Underrepresnted Minority Fellowship to attend the 2020 Noble Metal Nanoparticle GRC
Jan 2020:
- Professor Skrabalak is named a Mercator Fellow at the Collaborative Research Center "Design of Particulate Products" at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
- Congrats to Yifan on her paper in Small
- Welcome to undergraduate researchers Jared and Josh!
- Congrats to Josie on her paper in Nanoscale
August 2019:
- Congrats to Josh Sanatana on his paper in Advanced Energy Materials
July-August 2019:
- Congrats to Hannah Ashberry on her paper in Nano Letters
- Congrats to Josh Sanatana on his paper in Particle
June 2019:
- Congrats to Josie Gamler and Hannah Ashberry on their paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials along with our collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory!
- Congrats to Josh Smith and our collaborators in the Bals group at the University of Antwerp on their paper in ACS Nano!
May 2019:
- Congrats to Josh Smith and Zach Woessner on their manuscript in JPC-C!
- Congrats to Josh Smith who is the recipient of a fellowship from the Indiana Space Grant Consortium
- Congrats to Nick Daanen on completion of his Masters Degree
- We welcome visiting graduate student Jette Katja Mathiesen for the summer
April 2019:
- Zach and Alex present at MRS!
- Congrats to Alex on receiving the Haurowitz Award!
- Congrats to Josie on receiving a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship
- Josie, Dileka, and former REU student Sarah present at ACS
- Josh Smith competes in the Clapp IDEA competition sponsored by the IU Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Kaustav Chatterjee is accepted into the 21st National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering by Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories
- Josie Gamler's manuscript is accepted in ACS Nano
Feb 2019:
- Welcome undergraduate researcher Nate Smith to the group!
- Professor Skrabalak joins the editorial advisory board at Nanoscale Horizons
January 2019:
- Alex Chen and Sophia McClain publish a paper in Chemistry of Materials!
December 2018:
- Josh Santana and Sara participate in the Joint Undertaking for an African Materials Institute (JUAMI) in Uganda
- Josh Smith, Connor Bunch, Yuda Li, and Kallum Koczkur publish a paper in Nanoscale!
- Sandra passes her qualifying exam!
- Matt Gordon helps publish a paper with the Bronstein group!
November 2018:
- Hannah, Josie, and Josh Santana present at MRS Boston! Way to go!
- The lab welcomes graduate students Jack Googasian, Mattea Scanlan, and Kaustav Chatterjee to the group!
- Hannah Ashberry passes her qualifying exam!
October 2018:
- Nick Daanen helps publish a paper with IU alum Elisa Fatila in Dalton Transactions
- Alison Smith, Skrablab PhD alum, receives a Service to America Medal and Sara joins her in DC to celebrate!
September 2018:
- Kallum Koczkur accepts a research assistant professor position at Louisiana Tech University
- We welcome Yifan Chen to the group as a visiting PhD student from Nanjing Normal
- Josh Smith passes his qualifying exam!
August 2018:
- Sara speaks at both the National ACS Meeting in Boston and the IMRC in Cancun
- Matt Gordon attends the US School on Total Scattering and receives a best poster award!
July 2018:
- Welcome visiting student Minjoo Kim for the summer!
June 2018:
- Welcome REU student Sarah Severson for the summer!
Jan-May 2018:
- Sara was on sabbatical in Spain and forgot to update the news - check our Facebook page for information from that time!
December 2017:
- Congrats to Alex Chen on completing his candidacy exam!
- Congrats to Kallum and Priyanka on their collaborative paper in Langmuir!
November 2017:
- Congrats to Alex Chen and Mattea on their paper in ACS Nano!
- Congrats to Josie on her successful candidacy exam!
October 2017:
- Congrats to Dennis Chen on his paper in JPC-C!
- Congrats to Jie Fu on her paper in Angew. Chem.!
September 2017:
- Congrats to Josh Santana on the successful candidacy exam
- Welcome to postdoc Dileka Abeysinghe
August 2017:
- Congrats to Ethan, Kallum, and Dale on their paper in ChemNanoMat
- Congrats to Chenyu on his paper in Nano Letters!
- Congrats to Dennis on his paper in Chemistry of Materials and completion of his PhD
- Congrats to Yuda Li on completing his summer program and presenting his results in the closing ceremony
- Professor Skrabalak is named an adjunct professor in the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering
- Graduate Student Josh Santana presents his results at the National ACS Conference
July 2017:
- Mattea Scanlan presents her REU results in the Materials Symposium and Josh Santana gives an oral presentation
- Congrats to Evan on his paper in Dalton Transactions
May 2017:
- Congrats graduate student Josh Santana and postdoc Kallum Koczkur on the acceptance of their manuscript in Langmuir! A new direction for the group and Josh's first first author paper!
- Welcome REU student Mattea Scanlan. We are excited to work with you this summer!
April 2017:
- Congrats to Professor Skrabalak on being named a Guggenheim Fellow!
- Congrats to graduate students Nick Daanen and Josh Santana on their acceptances into the US School on Total Scattering Analysis!
March 2017:
- Congrats to Postdoc Chenyu Wang on his professorship at Nanjing University of Technology (Institute of Advanced Materials)
- Congrats to Graduate Student Jie Fu on her successful thesis defense! Skrablab PhD #7!
- Congrats to Graduate Student Sandra Atehortua Bueno on being selected for a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- Check out Professor Skrabalak's interview for "People behind the Science"
- Congrats to undergraduate researcher Sophie McClain on being selected for Phi Beta Kappa honor society!
- Alison Smith presents at at conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid Nanomaterials in Portugal
- Professor Skrabalak presents at Pittcon - a new adventure for her!
February 2017:
- Congrats to Professor Skrabalak on her Fulbright Fellowship
January 2017:
- Welcome Cari Rice to the Skrablab!
December 2016
- Congrats to Alison Smith on Completion of her PhD!
September 2016:
- Congrats to Jie, who is selected for a 2016 Provost's Travel Award for Women in Science
- The Chemistry Department recommends Professor Skrabalak for promotion to Full Professor!
August 2016:
- Congrats to graduate student Alison Smith on the successful defense of her thesis
- Congrats to postdoc Hamed on his acceptance of a new postdoc position at Georgetown University
- Congrats to all our excellent REU students on their excellent poster presentations
July 2016:
- Congrats to graduate student Jie Fu who was selected for the Chester Davis Inorganic Fellowship for 2016-17
- Congrats to former graduate student Rebecca Weiner on starting at the FDA in Chicago! Way to go
- We welcome Lena, Chenhao, and Jingyao to the Skrablab! They are international REU students!
June 2016:
- Prof. Skrabalak is elected vice chair for the next Noble Metal Nanoparticles GRC
- Welcome incoming graduate students Sandra and Josh!
- Welcome REU student Joseph!
- Sara and graduate student Dennis are off to JUAMI in Tanzania!
May 2016:
- Congrats to Becca Weiner on receiving a best poster award from the Catalysis Club of Chicago
- Congrats to Becca Weiner on completing her PhD!
- Congrats to Samantha Harvey on completion of her degree - off to Northwestern for Graduate Studies
- Congrats to Andjela Radmilovic on her acceptance into graduate school - off to Wisconsin!
March 2016:
- Congrats to graduate students Meredith Kunz and Josh Santana on being selected for teaching awards by the Chemistry Department
- Congrats to graduate student Dennis Chen on being selected for a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award!
- Congrats to graduate student Nick Daanen on being selected for a NSF-GRF! Way to go!
- Congrats to graduate student Becca Weiner on the successful defense of her thesis
- Congrats to graduate student Jie Fu on being selected for the David A. Rothrock Award by the Department of Chemistry
- Congrats to former Skrabalak group postdoc Ellen Steinmiller, our first, on her promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure from the University of Dallas (official August 17)! Way to go!
- Congrats to graduate student Dennis Chen on receiving the University Graduate School President's Diversity Dissertation Fellowship
- Professor Skrabalak visits the University of Minnesota and ACS San Diego
Feb 2016:
- Congrats to Dennis on the acceptance of his paper in Inorganic Chem
- Congrats to Becca, Dennis, and Oak Ridge Collaborator Ray on the acceptance on their paper in Small
- Congrats to Alison and Becca on our manuscript accepted in JPC-C! A special issue for Prof. Van Duyne!
Jan 2016:
- Moitree's paper is accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A - Congrats!
- Professor Skrabalak joins the Editorial Advisory Board for Nanoscale
- Graduate student Ethan Harak accepts a position at Cook! Congrats!
Nov/Dec 2015:
- Alison Smith's popularization is published in Future Force Magazine
- Professor Skrabalak and graduate students Meredith, Alison, and Becca all attend Pacifichem
- Professor Skrabalak receives the 2015 Baekeland Award from the North Jersey Section of the ACS at a symposium in her honor
- Congrats to former graduate student Chris DeSantis on the acceptance of a paper in Scientific Reports - our first paper from a collaboration with the Ringe Group at Rice University!
- See our press release
October 2015:
- The Skrablab welcomes four C500 students - Nick, Josh, Josie, and Alex!
September 2015:
- Congrats to Kallum on the acceptance of his paper in Daltons Transactions - a comprehensive review on PVP in nanoparticle synthesis.
- Sara visits Loyola University to give the Denkewalter Lecture!
- Congrats to Alison on the acceptance of her paper in JPC-C! A collaboration with the Dragnea group.
- Congrats to Becca and Meredith on the acceptance of their Accounts of Chemical Research manuscript on seeded syntheses from our lab!
August 2015:
- Undergraduate researcher Sophie McClain joins the Skrablab
- Sara gives two invited talks at the IMRC in Cancun Mexico
- Becca and Evan attend the National ACS Conference in Boston
- Congrats to Jie who received a best poster award at the Career Development Symposium in the Department of Chemistry. Also, nice job to all the student organizers!
July 2015:
- Congrats to graduate students Becca and Dennis on being selected for the Inorganic and Materials Siedle Fellowships
- Sara speaks at the ACS Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference
- Welcome graduate student Alex Chen to the Skrablab
June 2015:
- Both Dennis and Sara attend MRS-Singapore - fun times!
- Dennis Chen attends X-ray and Neutron Scattering School
- Congrats to former Skrablab postdoc Lin Xu who has been appointed as an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Nanjing Normal University
- Welcome gradaute student Josie Legere to the Skrablab
- Welcome graduate student Josh Santana and post doc Walter Wang to the Skrablab
May 2015:
- Hamed's invited review paper on attachment-based growth is accepted in RSC Advances
- Jie and Dennis attend the North American Solid State Chemistry Conference
- Welcome undergraduate researcher Connor Bunch
- Congrats to Andjela and Connor on completion of their undergraduate degrees!
- Congrats to graduate student Meredith Hartley who is a recipient of the C500 Proposal Award, selected by the Graduated Standards Committee
- Congrats to Moitree Laskar on completion of her PhD! #4 for the Skrablab!
Feb-April 2015:
- Congrats to Becca on the acceptance of her paper in ChemComm!
- Becca attends the Royal Society of Chemistry Nanoparticle Faraday discussion at Argonne National Lab
- Congrats to Dennis Chen who was selected to attend the 17th Annual National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering
- Congrats to Samantha Harvery who was on senior honor roll (as a junior) and recipient of the Hutton Honors College Award, Malcom A. Kochert Scholarship, and Raymond Siedle Scholarship
- Congrats to Andjela Radmilovic who was on senior honor roll and who was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and recipient of the Enola Rentschler Van Valer Trafford Scholarship
- Congrats to Becca Weiner who was selected for the Lynne L. Merritt Fellowship from the Department of Chemistry. This award is given to an outstanding graduate student with the principal criterion being excellence in doctoral research
- Jie and Hamed attend and present at MRS
- Congrats to Dennis Chen and Jie Fu on the acceptance of their review paper in ChemNanoMat
- Sara attends ACS Denver.
- Congrats to Sara who is named a Rudy Professor by the Provost at Indiana University
- Congrats to Sara who was selected to receive the 2015 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award from the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society
January 2015:
- Congrats to Jie Fu on the acceptance of her paper in Chemistry of Materials!
- Congrats to Nancy Ortiz on the acceptance of her final Skrablab paper in ChemNanoMat!
December 2014:
- Sara is selected as chair-elect of the Nanoscience sub-division for the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society
- Sara receives a Scialog Collaborative Grant with Vanessa Huxter from the University of Arizona for their proposal "Light-mediated strain as an adaptive tool toward efficient catalysis"!
- Congrats to Dennis and Bill on the acceptance of their paper in Chemistry of Materials
- Sara is selected to the International Advisory Board for Wiley's Journal ChemNanoMat
- Moitree Laskar completes her thesis defense!
- Sara is named a Rudy Professor by the Provost of Indiana University
- Congrats to Nancy and Becca on the acceptance of her paper in ACS Nano
- Congrats to Dennis on the passing of his qualifying exam!
November 2014:
- Congrats to Becca on the acceptance of her paper in Angew Chem
- Congrats to Jie on the passing of her qualifying exam!
- Congrats to Alison on the passing of her qualifying exam!
October 2014:
- Sara gives a plenary lecture at CERMACS
- Sara, Becca, and Jie travel to China for IUMRS! What a fun, interesting experience abroad
- Sara attends Scialog
- The Skrablab welcomes new graduate students Meredith Hartley and Evan Rugen
- Undergraduate researcher Andjela speaks at the Cox Scholar's Fall reception
- Former graduate student Chris DeSantis starts his postdoc position in Professor Halas' laboratory at Rice University. Good luck!
- Former graduate student Amanda Mann begins at Merck! Good luck!
August 2014:
- Visiting student Cheng Peng completes her research experience in the Skrabalak Laboratory
- Former graduate student Nancy Ortiz starts at Exxon Mobil. Good luck!
- Congrats to graduate student Chris DeSantis on the successful defense of his thesis!
- Congrats to Becca, Mariana, and Chris on the acceptance of their paper in ACS Nano!
- Congrats to grad student Becca Weiner who has been selected for an Academic Scholarship from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago to support her graduate studies.
July 2014:
- Congrats to former undergraduate Matthew Bower on the acceptance of his first author paper in JPC-C.
- Sara and Dennis attend the Solid State GRC and present a talk and poster, respectively
- Sara attends the DOE Contractors Meeting in Annapolis
- The Skrablab welcomes visiting student Cheng Peng from Tsinghua University
- The Skrablab welcomes visiting faculty Dale Harak from Rockhurst University
June 2014:
- Welcome undergraduate researchers Conner and Michael
- Sara, Becca, and Chris attend the Noble Metal Nanoparticle GRC - Great science!
- Congrats to graduate student Chris DeSantis and the undergraduate powerhouse of Aaron Sue, Andjela Radmilovic, Haoming Liu, as well as scientist Dr. Losovyj on the acceptance of their manuscript "Shaping the Synthesis and Assembly of Symmetrically Stellated Au/Pd Nanocrystals with Aromatic Additives" into Nano Letters!
- The Skrablab attends the UIUC Materials Characterization workshop!
May 2014:
- Congrats to graduate student Moitree Laskar and husband Debashis Adhikari on the birth of their beautiful daughter Roopkatha!
- Congrats to Nancy Ortiz on receiving the official title of Dr.!
- Congrats to undergraduate Matthew Bower on his acceptance into UC-Irvine Med. School!
April 2014:
- Congrats to graduate student Nancy Ortiz on the sucessful defense of her thesis. Welcome to the rank of Dr.!
- Postdoctoral Scholar Nate Motl accepts a position at Huber Engineered Materials as a Senior Scientist
- Professor Skrabalak is selected for a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- Congrats to graduate student Jie Fu who received a ChemGRC award to suppor her travel to China for the IUMRS International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials in Fall 2014
- Nancy, Becca, and Dennis attend and present at the spring MRS Conference in San Francisco
- Samantha Harvey presents her research at the Hutton Honors College Research Symposium! Congrats on a job well done!
- Congrats to all the Skrablab members recognized with awards at the Chemistry Honors Banquet: Arts & Science Travel Grant to Moitree Laskar, Crane PhD Fellowship Alison Smith, Chester E. Davis Inorganic Recruiting Fellowship Ethan Harak, Provost's Travel Awards to Jie Fu and Rebecca Weiner, Raymond Siedle Materials Fellowship to Christopher DeSantis, the E. Campaigne/C500 Award to Dennis Chen, and the William H. Nebergall Inorganic Award to Rebecca Weiner. It's great to work with such a talented group!
- The Board of Trustees at Indiana University vote in favor of tenure and promotion for Professor Skrabalak. Official July 1!
March 2014:
- Undergraduate researcher Samantha Harvey accepts a position in the REU held at UIUC! She will join the Murphy lab for a few months!
- Professor Skrabalak accepts the 2014 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry at the National Conference in Dallas! What fun!
Feb 2014:
- Congrats to graduate student Moitree whose paper on the geometric parameters of shape-controlled Pd nanocrystals was accepted in ACS Catalysis - a new direction for the Skrablab!
- Congrats to Jie and Becca who receive Provost Travel Award for Women in Science. They will use these funds to travel to China for the IUMRS International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials in Fall 2014
Jan 2014:
- The Skrablab welcomes postdoctoral scholar Hamed Ataee!
- Congrats to Nancy Ortiz! Her paper on the dual roles of ligands in metal nanomaterial synthsis is accepted in Langmuir as a Feature Article!
Oct-Dec 2013:
- Congrats to Nate, Alison, and Chris on the acceptance of their Tutorial Review for Chemical Society Reviews! What a nice collaborative writing job! We learned so much from each other putting this paper together!
- The College of Arts and Sciences Tenure Committee votes unanimously in favor of Professor Skrabalak's promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. There are many more steps along the way, but it's great to have one more step completed!
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz accepts a position at Exxon Mobil! Congrats!
- The Skrablab's Tutorial Review "Engineering Plasmonic Metal Colloids through Composition and Structural Design" is accepted in Chemical Society Reviews. Congrats Nate, Alison, and Chris!
- Graduate student Chris DeSantis's paper "Manipulating the Optical Properties of Symmetrically Branched Au/Pd Nanocrystals through Interior Design" is accepted in a special issue of ChemComm.
- Professor Skrabalak joins the Editorial Advisory Board for Chemistry of Materials
- Graduate Student Ethan Harak joins the Skrablab as a C500 student! Welcome!
- The Skrablab's perspective in JPC-Letters "Seeding Bimetallic Nanostructures as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids" is accepted. Way to go Chris, Becca, Matthew, and Andjela!
- Graduate student Moitree Laskar presents her catalysis work at the Fall National MRS Conference in Boston
- Graduate student Moitree Laskar receives a Travel Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University
- Professor Skrabalak travels to Mexico for the Zing Conference on Nanomaterials and gives an invited talk
Sept 2013:
- Professor Skrabalak is selected as the recipient of the 2014 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry sponsored by Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity. The award recognizes fundamental research in pure chemistry carried by an individual 35 years of age or younger. To be eligible, a nominee "must have accomplished research of unusual merit for an individual on the threshold of her or his career."
- The Skrabalak Laboratory participates in the National Fall ACS Conference in Indianapolis
- IU's SACNAS Chapter is Named Chapter of the Year! Congrats Nancy and the other student organizers for all their hard work!
- The department of chemistry votes unanimously in favor of Professor Skrabalak's promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. There are many more steps along the way, but it's great to have this stage of the process complete!
August 2013:
- Visiting student Lu Haung presents her summer research at the Tsinghua Visiting Student Closing Ceremony
- Congrats to Andjela and Dennis, recipients of travel awards form the SISACS to attend ACS Indianapolis
- Graduate student Rebecca Weiner receives a fellowship from the Jewish Vocational Services toward her graduate studies
June 2013:
- Graduate student Moitree Laskar has her manuscript on edge-selective overgrowth accepted in ChemSusChem's Special Issue on Shape-controlled Nanostructures for Energy and Sustainability Applications
- Graduate student Chris DeSantis is the recipient of the Siedle Materials Fellowship for Fall 2013
May 2013
- The Skrabalak Laboratory receives support from the NSF-CHE MSN program for their work on seed-mediated co-reduction
- Professor Skrabalak is selected for a 2013 Early Career Research Award by the DOE for work on architecturally-controlled bimetallic nanostructures for use as catalysts!
- Professor Skrabalak is selected as a Dean's Fellow
April 2013
- Graduate student Amanda Mann's manuscript on the aerosol-assisted synthesis of shape-controlled nanocrytals is accepted in Chemistry of Materials. Thanks Jie and Chris for helping with the revisions!
- Professor Skrabalak travels to ACS NOLA to celebrate Younan Xia's selection as the Chemistry of Materials Awardee
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz presents in the ACS GREET Symposium at ACS NOLA and undergraduate Andjela Radmilovic presents a poster on the local ACS student section's activities
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz is selected for the 2013 Distinguished Graduate Student Award sponsored by the Latino Faculty and Staff Council. This award is given to inviduduals whose efforts have contributed to a positive campus environment in tandem with helping support retention of Latinos at Indiana University. Congrats!
March 2013:
- Congrats to undergraduate Andjela Radmilovic who will receive the Raymond Siedle Scholarship to support her summer research
- Congrats to undergraduate Matthew Bower who is the recipient of the Lee J. Todd Chemistry Memorial Scholarship
February 2013:
- Congrats to graduate student Nancy Ortiz who was selected as a recipient for a Dissertation Year Research Fellowship by the College of Arts and Science for 2013-2014
- Professor Skrabalak is named in the NYTimes as a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz also receives a Provost Travel Award for Women in Science; these funds will allow her to attend a class on data analysis at Argonne National Laboratory's APS
- Professor Skrabalak visits midwestern universities to give departmental seminars, including a visit back to her alma mater, UIUC - it was great to visit with everybody again!
- Graduate student Rebecca Weiner and Professor Skrabalak receive Provost Travel Awards for Women in Science and will use these funds to attend the 2013 Fall and Spring ACS Conferences, respectively
- Professor Skrabalak and graduate student Chris DeSantis are voted Queen and King of the Inorganic Area's Mardi Gras Party
- Professor Skrabalak and graduate student Nancy Ortiz conduct their first experiments at the APS, Argonne
- Professor Skrabalak is selected as a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow!
- Post Doc Nate Motl and former graduate student Amanda Mann's Feature Article on Aerosol-Assisted Syntheses is accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A's special issue Rising Stars, Young Nanoarchitects in Material Science. Congrats
January 2013:
- The Skrablab welcomes visiting undergraduate researcher Mariana B. T. Cardoso from the University of Sao Paulo!"
- Professor Skrabalak gives five departmental seminars at various universities - including a visit to Georgia Tech, home of her postodoctoral mentor Younan Xia
- Graduate student Amanda Peterson Mann's collaborative paper with the Novotny Laboratory is accepted in Analytical Chemistry!
December 2012:
- Chris DeSantis's manuscript on the role of seed shape on the synthesis of symmetrically branched nanocrystals is accepted in JACS!
- Indiana University's OVPR sponsors "Synthesis and Optical Studies of Self-assembling Stellated Nanocrystals", a collaborative proposal with the Dragnea Laboratory
- Our beam time proposal at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory is accepted!
November 2012:
- Congrats to undergraduates Adam Richter and Matthew Bower on their selection to Phi Beta Kappa!
- Gradaute student Amanda Peterson Mann successfully defends her PhD thesis research! Congrats!
October 2012:
- Professor Skrabalak also speaks at the University of Auckland as part of the ACS GREET program
- Professor Skrabalak travels to New Zealand for 2 weeks as part of the ACS GREET program to visit graduate stduent Nancy Ortiz and Victoria University Professor Richard Tilley.
September 2012:
- Congrats to graduate student Moitree Laskar on completion of her qualifying examination!
August 2012:
- Visiting undergraduate Haoming Liu (aka Leo) presents on his summer research at the Tsinghua Visiting Student Closing Ceremony
- Undergraduate researcher Aaron Sue leaves the Skrablab to begin graduate studies at Northwestern University
- Indiana CTSI sponsors Phase 2 for the "Commercial Scale Synthesis of High Surface Area Macroporous Silica for Bioanalytical Chromotography: Phase II" through their Research Invention and Scientific Commercialization (RISC) Program
- Nancy Ortiz's manuscript on ligand-controlled nanoparticle formation is accepted in Angewandte Chemie!
- Professor Skrabalak co-organizes and moderates the special symposium "Advanced Metal Nanocrystals for Catalysis" for the Division of Inorganic Chemistry at the Fall National ACS Conference
- Graduate students Chris DeSantis, Nancy Ortiz, and Moitree Laskar attend and present at the Fall National ACS Conference in Philadelphia
- Amanda Mann and Susanne Wicker's manuscript on aerosol-assisted molten salt syntheses is accepted in Advanced Materials!
July 2012:
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement funds the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Proposal "Mobilizing the Forgotten Army: Equipping TAs with Inquiry-Based Teaching Methods" for which Professor Skrabalak is a Senior Personnel
- Graduate student Becca Weiner receives an academic scholarship from Jewish Vocational Services
- Professor Skrabalak attends the Solid State Chemistry Gordon Research Conference
- Professor Skrabalak attends the Cottrell Scholars Conference sponspored by Research Corporation which is highlighted in the Huffington Post
- Professor Skrabalak presents, serves as a session chair, and receives a best poster award at the IUMRS International Conference for Young Researchers on Advanced Materials
June 2012:
- Professor Skrabalak visits the National University of Singapore to give a talk on nanomaterials
- Graduate student Chris DeSantis is selected to serve as the co-vice chair for the 2014 Noble Metal Nanoparticle GRS
- Professor Skrabalak and graduate student attend and present at the Noble Metal Nanoparticle GRC
- Congrats to graduate student Chris DeSantis who was selected as this year's recipient of the Chester Davis Fellowship in Inorganic Chemistry
- Congrats to graduate student Chris DeSantis who was selected as a ChemGRC Travel Grant Awardee
- Welcome graduate students Jie Fu and Alison Smith and post doc Nate Motl to the Skrablab!
May 2012:
- Indiana CTSI sponsors Phase 1 for the "Commercial Scale Synthesis of High Surface Area Macroporous Silica for Bioanalytical Chromotography" through their Research Invention and Scientific Commercialization (RISC) Program
- Professor Skrabalak and graduate student Nancy Ortiz are selected as a mentor-mentee pair for the ACS Global Research Experiences, Exchanges and Training (GREET) Program. This award will allow them to travel to New Zealand to conduct research in Professor Tilley's Laboratory
- Congrats to graduate student Nancy Ortiz who was selected to receive a Women in Chemistry Travel Award to attend the National ACS Conference this fall
March 2012:
- Professor Skrabalak is selected as a Cottrell Scholar by Research Corporation for Science Advancement!
- Amanda Mann and Ellen Steinmiller's manuscript is accepted in Dalton Transaction's New Talent's America's issue
- Graduate Student Nancy Ortiz travels to Korea as part of the IU-AGEP-SKKU Professional Development Workshop
- Professor Skrabalak receives a travel grant from the International Materials Institute for Solar Energy and Environment (IMI-SEE) to attend the IUMRS International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials in Singapore
- Chris DeSantis' invited manuscript is accepted to Langmuir's special issue on Colloidal Plasmonics!
- Graduate student Rebecca Weiner presents a poster in IU's Women in Science Annual Conference
February 2012:
- Congrats to Matt Bower who is the recipient of both an academic scholarship from the Department of Chemistry and a Summer Research Scholarship!
- An NIH-R01 entitled "Sensitive Methods for Glycoconjugate Analysis" is funded for which Professor Skrabalak is a co-investigator. Thank you PI Milos Novotny and graduate students Amanda Peterson Mann and Ben Mann for the great collaboration!
- Chris DeSantis, Aaron Sue, and Matthew Bower's manuscript is accepted in ACS Nano
November 2011:
- Lin Xu and Ellen Steinmiller's manuscript is accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry C
October 2011:
- Congratulations to Chris DeSantis on completion of his 5th semester qualifying exam
August/September 2011:
- Skrablab member Aaron Sue presents a poster at the Annual Nanotechnology Symposium held at Sullivan University in Louisville, Kentucky
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz presents a poster at the IU NOBCChe conference and receives 2nd place in the poster competition. Congrats!
- Professor Skrabalak is awarded an NSF MRI grant to purchase an X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer for the Nanoscale Characterization Facility at Indiana University
- Professor Skrabalak and graduate student Amanda Peterson Mann present at the National ACS Conference in Denver
- Visiting undergraduate researcher Chen Ji completes his summer of research in the Skrablab
July 2011:
- Professor Skrabalak presents a poster at the Clusters, Nanoparticles, and Nanocrystals GRC
- Congrats to Amanda Peterson Mann who has been awarded the Chester Davis Inorganic Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year!
June 2011:
- Congrats to Amanda Peterson Mann on receiving a Travel Award from the Divsion of Inorganic Chemistry to attend the fall ACS conference
- Welcome graduate student Becca Weiner
- Welcome visiting undergraduate Chen Ji from Tsinghua University (China)
- Professor Skrabalak gives two talks at the ACS Colloids Conference in Montreal
- Congrats to Nancy Ortiz who was selected for a best poster prize at CERMACS - Colloids and Surfaces Division!
- Nancy Ortiz's manuscript is accepted in Crystal Growth & Design!
- Skrablab members Amanda Mann, Nancy Ortiz, Chris DeSantis, and Dr. Lin Xu present posters at CERMACS
- Professor Skrabalak gives an invited seminar at CERMACS
May 2011:
- Congrats to graduate student Amanda Peterson Mann on receiving a Women in Chemistry Travel Grant from Indiana University!
- Welcome graduate student Corinne Weinel!
- Welcome graduate student Bill Bowers!
- Undergraduate researcher Adam Richter visits his former high school to talk about his research as part of our Skrablab Energy Ambassadors Program.
- Professor Skrabalak talks to High School science teachers about skrablab research in the IU sponsored Molecules Matters Workshop.
- Welcome graduate student Craig Girten!
- Former skrablab post doc Ellen Steinmiller's chemical education book chapter "Introducing Global Climate Change and Renewable Energy with Media Sources and a Simple Demonstration" is accepted for publication in the ACS Book "Sustainability in the Chemistry Curriculum".
April 2011:
- Graduate student Chris DeSantis presents his research at the National MRS Conference in San Francisco CA
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz presents her research at the National NoBCChe Conference in Houston TX
- Chris DeSantis' manuscript is accepted in Nano Letters.
- Congrats to undergraduate researcher Adam Richter on receiving a Grim Scholarship from the Department of Chemistry!
March 2011:
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz presents her research at the National ACS Conference in Anaheim
- The Skrablab moves into bigger and better lab space!
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz presents her research at the Regional SACNAS Conference
- Welcome undergraduate researcher Aaron Sue!
February 2011:
- Congrats to graduate stduent Nancy Ortiz for receiving both an Advancing Science and Coach Workshop Award to travel to the Annual NoBCChe Conference
December 2010:
- Amanda Mann's manuscript is accepted in Chemistry of Materials.
- Professor Skrabalak presents recent results at MRS Boston and Pacifichem!
- Congrats to graduate stduent Nancy Ortiz for receiving a ACS-WCC travel grant sponsored by Eli Lilly to present her results at the Spring 2011 Conference
- An NSF-CRIF proposal for a new powder diffractometer is funded for which Professor Skrabalak is a co-PI. Thank you Maren Pink for your hard work - our research is happier now!
- Congratulations to graduate student Kun Ha Park on completion of his Masters Degree in Chemistry.
November 2010:
- Congrats to graduate student Nancy Ortiz on completion of her PhD qualifying exam!
October 2010:
- Skrablab members Moitree Laskar, Nancy Ortiz, and Amanda Peterson attend PINDU, presenting two posters and a talk.
- Professor Skrabalak visits Washington University in St. Louis, speaking in an award symposium for her undergraduate adviser Professor Bill Buhro
September 2010:
- Lin Xu joins the Skrablab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome!
August 2010:
- Visiting Undergraduate Researcher Long Sun completes study abroad program in the Skrablab!
July 2010:
- Graduate student Moitree Laskar joins the Skrablab
- Welcome visiting student Long Sun from Tsinghua University!
- Congrats to Graduate Student Amanda Peterson who has been selected for the Siedle Inorganic Fellowship for the 2010-2011 academic year! The award is in recognition for excellence in research, coursework, teaching, and departmental service. Way to go!
June 2010:
- Adam Richter joins the Skrablab as an undergraduate researcher
- The Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems designates the publication "Galvanic replacement reaction: a simple and powerful route to hollow and porous metal nanostructures" as the Best Paper published in the 2007. This manuscript was written by Professors Lu, Chen, Skrabalak, and Xia.
- Graduate students Amanda Peterson and Nancy Ortiz present posters at CERMACS
- Professor Skrabalak presents a poster at the Noble Metal Nanoparticle Gordon Conference
May 2010:
- Professor Skrabalak visits Wright State University to give a departmental seminar
- Chemistry students from Southwestern Jr./Sr. High School visit the Skrablab
- Susi Wicker completes her 1 year exchange in the Skrablab
April 2010:
- Skrablab member Ellen Steinmiller accepts a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Dallas! Congrats!
March 2010:
- Professor Skrabalak presents 2 talks at the Spring ACS meeting and chairs a session
- Graduate students Nancy Ortiz and Amanda Peterson present posters at the WISP Research Conference
- Professor Skrabalak visits Texas Tech University to give a departmental seminar
- Graduate students Chris DeSantis and Nancy Ortiz present a poster at the Heterogeneous Catalysis Workshop
- Professor Skrabalak speaks at the IU Heterogeneous Catalysis Workshop sponsored by the Nanoscience Center and organized by Professors Tait and Skrabalak
February 2010:
- Amanda Peterson's paper to Langmuir is accepted.
- Professor Skrabalak receives the NSF CAREER Award
December 2009:
- Skrablab is featured in "A Day in the Life of the College"
November 2009:
- Skrablab member Ellen Steinmiller presents a poster at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston
- Skrablab members Ellen Steinmiller and Amanda Peterson present posters at PINDU
- Congrats to graduate student Amanda Peterson for passing her PhD qualifying exam!
October 2009:
- Graduate students Susi Wicker and Chris DeSantis join the Skrablab
- Professor Skrabalak presents at FACSS in Louisville
August 2009:
- Graduate student Amanda Peterson presents her poster on the synthesis of porous silica at the Fall ACS Meeting
April 2009:
- Congrats to graduate student Amanda Peterson for receiving a WCC/Eli Lilly Travel Grant to attend the Fall ACS Meeting
March 2009:
- The manuscript "Ultrasound-assisted synthesis of carbon materials" is published online in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Post-doctoral researcher Ellen Steinmiller joins the Skrablab
February 2009:
- The Skrablab is featured on IU Homepages!
- Graduate student Amanda Peterson is the recipient of a College Professional Development Award!
- ACS Nano Paper “Pushing Nanocrystal Synthesis toward Nanomanufacturing” featured on Nanowerk!
- Graduate student Nancy Ortiz featured by the FBI and AGEP.
January 2009:
- Women in Science Program Laboratory Tour is a success!
- Undergraduate Rohit Patel joins the Skrablab
December 2008:
- Professor Skrabalak receives a ACS-PRF Grant
October 2008:
- Graduate students Kun Ha Park and Nancy Ortiz join the Skrablab
August 2008:
- Graduate student Amanda Peterson joins the Skrablab
- Undergraduate Patrick McChesney joins the Skrablab
