Our research focuses on understanding and manipulating fundamental interactions at the nanoscale. Our expertise includes synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials, including:
  • Nano-assembled actuable materials
  • Nano-plasmonics 
  • Nano-structured photovoltaics 

Recent papers:
Enhancing Charge Carrier Delocalization in Perovskite Quantum Dot Solids with Energetically Aligned Conjugated Capping Ligands.  ACS Energy Lett. 5,  817 (2020).
Directed assembly of magnetic and semiconducting nanoparticles with tunable and synergistic functionality. Scientific Reports, 9,  15784 2019.
Boe Mendewala is the campus GladSlam winner!  
​Her presentation is titled “The Solar Solution: Upgrading Energy" Technology”

UC Merced, NASA working to develop spray-on solar cells to be used in space (reported on KFSN-TV)