Group Members

Graduate Students

Tao Yuwen

Tao is currently developing synthetic methods of 2D Van der Waals heterostructures and investigating interface effects in 2D heterostructures during phase transition.

Jiahui Liu

Jiahui is studying layered materials and using them as hosts in intercalation reactions. She focuses on the solvent effect during intercalation reactions.

Junyan Liu

Junyan is currently developing methods to place a 2D monolayer material on a spin crossover crystal and exploring if the solid-solid phase transition associated with spin-crossover will induce strain at the interface and change the properties of the 2D material.

Krittin Poottafai

Krittin is currently working on studying two-dimensional materials and their properties related to surface stress and investigating solvent effect on layered materials.

Tanzina Akter

Tanzina is currently working with two-dimensional hybrid layered perovskites to investigate their properties and the effects of solvent-induced phase transition within these materials.

Undergraduate Students

Camille is currently working on the complexation of fluoride into hybrid polyion complexes for PET imaging.

Abigail Dudinsky

Abigail is currently working on the surface modification of gadolinium phosphate nanoparticles for CEST contrast.

Jackson Powell

Jackson is currently working on developing a physical model of volume displacement during spin crossover transitions.

Hannah Abreu

Hannah is working on synthesizing and characterizing VOPO4•H2O with hopes of studying the impact of particle size on solvent intercalation.

Helen Brockett

 Helen is working on synthesizing Prussian Blue Analogues and growing shells on those particles.

David Siddons

David is currently working on synthesis and characterization of two-dimensional layered materials to investigate the solvent effect on intercalation.