A warm welcome to Evan Stern and Dario Nunez, new graduate students who will be joining our group for the rest of the summer through the Early Start program and continue on with us through Fall quarter. Stern will be working on understanding copper phthalocynanine aggregation into nanoribbons and their interaction with electron acceptors, while Dario will be doing some experiments to gain insight into how perovskite nanocrystals nucleate and grow. We’re so glad we get a few extra weeks with you this summer – welcome!

Many thanks to the Cinvestav Physics and Nanoscience departments for hosting my visit to the Cinvestav Research Institute in Mexico City. It was great fun to give a lecture to your Advanced Summer School in Physics, and share my research with your Nanoscience department. We are looking forward to fruitful collaborations on perovskite film formation! Afterwards, I bumped into some of the summer school students in front of Mexico City’s center for fine arts, pictured.