Group News
03/20/24: Dr. Akopov presented a talk at the 2024 Spring ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA on the “Luminescent Ln3(SiS4)I: Synthesis and Crystal Growth”.
02/26/24: A new article on the synthesis and the effects of the addition of C, Zr and Si on the mechanical properties of WB4 is published in Chemistry of Materials, titled “Hardening in Tungsten Tetraboride with the Addition of Carbon, Zirconium and Silicon: Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Effects“
02/05/24: Lesly Delgado joins the group as an undergraduate student researcher!
01/08/24: Rutva Joshi has joined the group as a Masters student!
12/12/23: A new review article on synthesis, properties and applications of non-linear optical materials together with our collaborators from the Yeung Lab at SUNY Albany is published in ACS Applied Optical Materials, titled Advances in Solid-State Nonlinear Optical Materials: From Fundamentals to Applications
11/06/23: Rahidul Hasan has joined the group as a Postdoctoral Associate!
09/21/23: Zohaib is attending a Diffuse Scattering workshop at ORNL in Oak Ridge, TN.
09/11/23: A new article on high-entropy sulfides is published in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, titled Synthesis of Chiral High-Entropy Sulfides for the Non-Linear Optical Applications
07/10/23: A new article on a Ni-Si-P catalyst is published in Inorganic Chemistry, titled Probing of the Noninnocent Role of P in Transition-Metal Phosphide Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts via Replacement with Electropositive Si
04/28/23: A new article on NLO arsenides is published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, titled IrSi3As3: a first transition metal arsenide non-linear optical material
03/28/23: Dr. Akopov presented a talk at the 2023 Spring ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN on the “Synthesis and crystal growth of luminescent lanthanide iodothiosilicates Ln3(SiS4)I”.
02/01/23: Francesca Mondestin joins the group as an undergraduate student researcher!
11/01/22: Hafiz Zohaib Aslam joins the group as the first Graduate student!
09/01/22: The Akopov Group begins at the Rutgers University-Newark!