The Wong Lab

Marty, our intrepid recent graduate, is leaving the lab after many years of great work developing our white-light generation apparatus and doing a huge number of nanocrystal experiments. We will miss his awesome literature reviews at group meetings, his legendary dependability, and of course his friendship. We wish him well as he moves back to California to become an Optical Engineer at Maztech Industries. Keep in touch, Marty!

We say thanks and bid a fond farewell to Laura, who is leaving our lab to start her graduate career in Stanford’s Chemistry Department. Laura has played a leading role on Team Squaraines, working on building a kinetic model that can reproduce the SSTA data she helped measure during thermal annealing. We will miss both Laura and her famous ‘Cathy Aliens’! Best of luck at Stanford, and we look forward to seeing all the great work she’ll do as a graduate student.

A huge congratulations to Michael on the successful defense of his thesis, “Influencing Halide Segregation in Perovskite Nanocrystals via Surface Treatment”. Michael presented a wonderfully clear and fascinating seminar on his thesis work. We wish him luck as he starts his new position as faculty in the Chemistry Department at Truman State University! Congratulations, Michael!

A big welcome to Laila, who will be joining our lab as a graduate student! Laila will be taking over our projects on perovskite nanocrystals. Welcome Laila!

A big welcome to Carly, who joins our lab for 10 weeks this summer through the Research Experiences for Undergrads program! Carly joins us from Allegheny College, and will be working with Zach to measure some electron donor-acceptor samples using transient absorption. Welcome aboard, Carly!

A big congrats to Laura, who was selected to the Phi Beta Kappa Oregon Six, and also earned awards for her accomplishments: American Institute of Chemists Foundation Award to the Outstanding Senior and ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award! Well-deserved!

A big congratulations to our undergrads Marty and Laura on their graduation!

Thanks to Prof. Peter Mascher for the invitation to present our work at the ECS conference. It was a good opportunity to present some of Marty and Michael’s recent measurements using SSTA to measure nanocrystal syntheses. It was great to be in Canada again, and learn more about what’s happening in the electrochemistry community.

Thanks to Prof. Aditi Bhattacherjee for hosting my remote visit to the Univeristy of Iowa’s chemistry department. Some really exciting work going on in Iowa, and I can’t wait to see what comes out of Aditi’s lab in the next few years!

Many thanks to Prof. Gordana Dukovic and Prof. David Nesbitt for the invitation to give a seminar at CU Boulder. It was my first seminar travel since before the pandemic, and it was so nice to actually see people face-to-face. Great to hear about all the exciting things going on at Boulder and make some new connections!