2024
November 15, 2024
Congratulations to Boxin Zhang for his paper “Transient plasma enhanced combustion of ultra-lean H2 in an internal combustion engine for reduced NOx emission” being accepted to Fuel.
November 14, 2024
Big thanks to Rajay, my very first PhD student, for returning to the lab after 15 years to help us get this massive CVD furnace up and running!
November 4, 2024
Congratulations to Boxin Zhang for his paper “Stable combustion of ammonia in an internal combustion engine: A single fuel approach enabled by multi-pulse transient plasma ignition” being accepted to Fuel.
September 2, 2024
Congratulations to Sizhe Weng for his paper “Simultaneous Characterization of In-Plane and Cross-Plane Resistivities in Highly Anisotropic 2D Layered Heterostructures” being accepted to ACS Nano.
July 15, 2024
Congratulations to Indu Aravind for her paper “Voltage-induced modulation of interfacial ionic liquids measured using surface plasmon resonant grating nanostructures” being accepted to The Journal of Chemical Physics.
August 21, 2024
Congratulations to Rifat Shahriar for his paper “Low Reducing Potentials Enabled by CaF2 Supported Graphene Electrodes in High Impedance Solutions” being accepted to ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
July 10, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Zhi Cai for completing their Ph.D.
July 10, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Indu Aravind for completing their Ph.D.
June 20, 2024
Congratulations to Ruoxi Li for her paper “Achieving Low Voltage Plasma Discharge in Aqueous Solution Using Lithographically Defined Electrodes and Metal/Dielectric Nanoparticles” being accepted to ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
April 28, 2024
Congratulations to Caleb Medchill for his paper “Transient plasma enhanced combustion of solid rocket propellants” being accepted to Aerospace Science and Technology.
April 2, 2024
Congratulations to Indu Aravind for her paper “Photoexcited Hot Electron Catalysis in Plasmon-Resonant Grating Structures with Platinum, Nickel, and Ruthenium Coatings” being accepted to ACS Applied Material and Interfaces.
January 31, 2024
Congratulations to Ruoxi Li for her paper “Voltage-Induced Inversion of Band Bending and Photovoltages at Semiconductor/Liquid Interfaces” being accepted to ACS Applied Material and Interfaces.
2023
October 30, 2023
Congratulations to Yu Yun Wang for her first paper “Measuring Local pKa and pH Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of 4‑Mercaptobenzoic Acid” being accepted to ACS Langmuir.
September 30, 2023
Congratulations to Boxin Zhang for his paper “Ion density-enhanced electrostatic precipitation using high voltage nanosecond pulses” being accepted to The Journal of Environmental Science: Advances.
August 8, 2023
Congratulations to Zhi Cai for his second first author paper “Dynamic Study of Intercalation/Deintercalation of Ionic Liquids in Multilayer Graphene Using an Alternating Current Raman Spectroscopy Technique” being accepted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
July 14, 2023
Congratulations to Ruoxi Li for her paper “SERS Detection of Charge Transfer at Electrochemical Interfaces Using Surface-Bound Ferrocene” being accepted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
May 13, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Bofan Zhao on completing his Ph.D.!
Mar 5, 2023
Congratulations to Bofan Zhao for his successful Ph.D. defense.
Jan 5, 2023
Congratulations to Tate McAluney for winning the 2023 Provost’s Research Fellowship.
2022
Nov 30, 2022
Congratulations to Haley Weinstein on her paper “Harvesting Planck radiation for free-space optical communications in the long-wave infrared band” being published in Optics Letters.
Nov 17, 2022
Congratulations to A. Montenegro, A. Vaughn, M. Mammetkuliyev, B. Zhao, B. Zhang, H. Shi, D. Bhattacharyya, and A. Benderskii for their paper “Field-Dependent Orientation and Free Energy of D2O at an Electrode Surface Observed via SFG Spectroscopy” being published in JPC.
Sep 12, 2022
Welcome to our new lab members Haley Weinstein, and Caleb Medchill who joined us last year, and Rifat Shahriar, Mariano Rubio, and Yu Yun Wang who joined us this year.
Sep 8, 2022
Congratulations to Zhi Cai for his paper “Gate-tunable modulation of the optical properties of multilayer graphene by the reversible intercalation of ionic liquid anions“ being accepted to JAP.
May 13, 2022
Congratulations to Yu Wang on completing his Ph.D. and best wishes for your future endeavors!
Feb 24, 2022
Congratulations to Yu Wang for publishing his paper on “In Situ Investigation of Ultrafast Dynamics of Hot Electron-Driven Photocatalysis in Plasmon-Resonant Grating Structures” in JACS!
2021
Oct 21, 2021
Congratulations to Sisi for publishing her paper on “CO2 Reduction to Higher Hydrocarbons by Plasma Discharge in Carbonated Water” in ACS Energy Letters, and for being featured on the journal cover.
Jun 4, 2021
Our paper “Asymmetric response of interfacial water to applied electric fields” has finally been published on Nature!
Apr 16, 2021
Congratulate Shujin Li and Bofan Zhao on publishing the paper “Monitoring Reaction Intermediates in Plasma-Driven SO2, NO, and NO2 Remediation Chemistry Using In Situ SERS Spectroscopy” on Analytical Chemistry! Keep up the good work!
2020
Dec 16, 2020
Congratulate Bofan Zhao on publishing the paper “Au Nanoparticle Enhancement of Plasma-Driven Methane Conversion into Higher Order Hydrocarbons via Hot Electrons” on ACS Applied Nano Materials! Keep up the good work! Way to go!
Oct 24, 2020
Congratulate Yu Wang on publishing the paper “Enhanced Low-Temperature Thermoelectric Performance in (PbSe)1+δ(VSe2)1 Heterostructures due to Highly Correlated Electrons in Charge Density Waves” on Nano Letters! Keep up the good work!
Aug 12, 2020
Congratulations to Sisi Yang on a successful Ph.D. thesis defense! Best wishes for your future endeavor! Our group’s 3rd Ph.D. this year!
Jul 24, 2020
Congratulate Haotian Shi on publishing the paper “Monitoring Local Electric Fields using Stark Shifts on Napthyl Nitrile-Functionalized Silicon Photoelectrodes” on J. Phys. Chem. C!
Jul 24, 2020
Congratulations on Bo Wang’s new paper “Broadband electroluminescence from reverse breakdown in individual suspended carbon nanotube pn-junctions” published on Nano Research!
Mar 11, 2020
Congratulations to Bo Wang on the thesis defense and best wishes for your continuing success!
Feb 8, 2020
Congratulations to Jihan Chen on publishing the paper “Stacking Independence and Resonant Interlayer Excitation of Monolayer WSe2/MoSe2 Heterostructures for Photocatalytic Energy Conversion.” on ACS Applied Nano Materials!
Feb 8, 2020
Congratulations to Jihan Chen being selected as the Chinese government’s excellent overseas PhD student award!
Feb 8, 2020
Congratulations to Haotian Shi on the successful thesis defense and best wishes on your next adventure!
2019
Jun 11, 2019
Our “Solid State Properties” book is among the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in Springer with a total of 31391 chapter downloads.
May 8, 2019
Congratulations to Jihan for successfully defending his thesis!
Apr 16, 2019
Congratulations to Zhi for being accepted into the Ph.D. program at USC!
Mar 3, 2019
Congratulations to Bingya for publishing her paper “Resonant and Selective Excitation of Photocatalytically Active Defect Sites in TiO2” at ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Feb 26, 2019
Congratulations to Jihan for publishing his paper “Plasmon-Resonant Enhancement of Photocatalysis on Monolayer WSe2” on ACS Photonics!
Jan 12, 2019
Congratulations to Bingya for defending her thesis at light speed!
2018
Sep 12, 2018
Congratulations to Bo for passing his qualifying exam. Keep up the good work!
Jun 26, 2018
Congratulations Nirakar on a successful thesis defense. Best of luck in your future endeavors!
Jun 20, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Shen for successfully defending his thesis!
May 10, 2018
Congratulations to Jihan, Bingya, Nirakar, and Lang for graduation from our group! We are so happy to share in the excitement of your graduation day and very proud of you! Best wishes for your next adventure!
Apr 29, 2018
Congratulations to Nirakar for getting his paper into the Top 100 Scientific Reports of 2017!
Apr 4, 2018
Congratulations to Bofan and Indu for getting accepted into the Ph.D. program here at USC! We’re looking forward to working with you over the next few years.
Mar 13, 2018
We congratulate Bo Wang for publishing the paper “Defect-induced photoluminescence enhancement and corresponding transport degradation in individual suspended carbon nanotubes” in Physical Review Applied journal!
Feb 20, 2018
We’d like to welcome Bofan, Zhi, and Indu to the group! Fight On!
Feb 1, 2018
Congrats to Rohan for getting his patent awarded! (US Patent Application No. 15/536,628, Bulk Direct Bandgap MoS2 By Plasma Induced Layer Decoupling)
Jan 26, 2018
Congratulations to Haotian for publishing his paper in Nanoscale! “Sensing Local pH and Ion Concentration at Graphene Electrode Surfaces using in Situ Raman Spectroscopy”
Jan 21, 2018
A graduate textbook co-authored by Professor Cronin is published and out in the market. We would like to congratulate Professor Cronin on his publication of this book. Solid State Properties: From Bulk to Nano (Graduate Texts in Physics)
