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:
High Efficiency Luminescent Solar Concentrator based on Organo-metal Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots with Plasmon Enhancement.  Adv. Optical Mater. 2021, 2100754. 
Low temperature energy transfer via self-trapped excitons in Mn-doped 2D organic halide perovskites. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2020)
From Earth to Space and Back Again: NASA sent up lab member William Delmas' perovskite samples on the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 13 flight. Now they are back at UC Merced for post-flight characterization .
UC Merced, NASA working to develop spray-on solar cells to be used in space (reported on KFSN-TV)