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:
Making nanomaterial-enabled nitrate sensors useful for real water systems: user-centric design perspectives. Front Sens. 6. 1, 2025.
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Elucidating Early Proton Irradiation Effects in Metal Halide Perovskites via Photoluminescence Spectroscopy. 
iScience, 28, 11586, 2025.

NSF Grant to Help Grad Students Find Solutions to Environmental Challenges.  We have a brand new NRT (NSF) award, titled CONDESA. 

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First flight of perovskites on ISS pictured on the cover of Advanced Energy Materials