Current Members
Graduate Students
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.
Iqra Riaz
Iqra is currently working on investigating the effect of different solvents on the surface properties of anthracene-based nanomaterials.
Sean P. Cooper
Sean is currently working on 2D arrays of spin-crossover materials to map their individual spin transitions on a surface.
Aravinda B. Jayathilaka
Aravinda studies intercalation in layered transition-metal materials and investigates intercalation mechanisms using density functional theory (DFT).
Undergraduate Students
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.
Katerina Afanasiev
Katerina is currently working on developing a physical model of volume displacement during spin crossover transitions.
Sydney A. Polkabla
Sydney is currently synthesizing and characterizing solid-state materials to study the effects of solvent on layered materials.
Kole N. Killough
Kole is currently working on the synthesis and characterization of layered, basic, copper alkyl sulfonates with the goal of finding a suitable system to investigate solvent-mediated pressure effects.
Recent Alumni
Tao Yuwen
PhD (Graduated 2025)
Jiahui Liu
PhD (Graduated 2025)
Camille Green
Undergraduate (Graduated 2024)
Abigail Dudinsky
Undergraduate (Graduated 2025)
Jackson Powell
Undergraduate (Graduated 2025)