On 4/12/2017, Letian will give an invited talk @Ohio State Univ., Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues there.
Letian’s talk @Groningen
On 3/29/2017, Letian will give an invited talk @University of Groningen, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry. Looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues there.
Fan’s paper published on JACS
Fan’s paper on Cu nanowire synthesis using organic free radicals has been published on JACS. In this work, we report a new, general synthetic approach that uses heat driven benzoin radicals to grow ultrathin copper nanowires with tunable diameters. In-situ temperature dependent electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopic studies show that the active reducing agent is the free radicals produced by benzoins under elevated temperature. The nice thing is that the reducing power of benzoin can be readily tuned by symmetrically decorating functional groups on the two benzene rings. The controllable reactivity gives the carbon organic radical great potential as a versatile reducing agent that can be generalized in other metallic nanowire syntheses.

Letian’s talk @Purdue University
On 2/28/2017, Letian will give an invited talk @Purdue University, Department of Chemical Engineering. Looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues there.
Letian’s talk @ UMass Amherst
On 2/21/2017, Letian will give an invited talk @UMass Amherst, Department of Chemical Engineering. Looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues there.
Letian’s talk @Yale MechE/MSE
On 1/25/2017, Letian will give an invited talk @Yale University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues there.
Yi’s paper on Nano Lett.
Yi’s paper on atomic resolution TEM imaging of halide perovskite nanosheets has been published on Nano Lett. This is the first report of the high quality atomic structures of halide perovskites using TEM. A quantitative structure determination was achieved atom column by atom column using the phase information of the reconstructed exit-wave function without causing electron beam-induced sample alterations.

Letian’s talk @UCLA MSE
On 10/28/2016, Letian will give an invited talk @UCLA MSE. Looking forward to see Prof. Yang and many friends there.
Letian’s Poster @AIChE
On 11/03/2016, in the “meet the candidate section”Letian will give a poster presentation in the 2016 AIChE annual meeting @San Francisco. This is related to job applications. Looking forward to meeting with the department chairs and search committees.
Letian’s talk @ ECS Meeting
Letian will give an invited talk in the 229th ECS Meeting @San Diego to introduce the 2D hybrid halide perovskites. The symposium is mainly for 2D materials. We will try to convince others that halide perovksites are very interesting new 2D materials.
Looking forward to the conference and seeing many friends there!