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June 10th, 2009

Congratulations to Goki Eda for winning the Graduate Student Award at the E-MRS spring meeting in Strasbourg, France. He presented an invited talk titled "Graphene-based large-area thin films as flexible and transparent electronic materials" in session F - Advances in transparent electronics: from materials to devices.

June 4th, 2009

Congratulations to Goki Eda for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled "Solution-processed thin films for electronics from single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene." The committee members were: Prof. Chhowalla (Chair), Prof. Birnie, Prof. Klein, Prof. Mann, and Prof. Sigel from the Materials Science and Engineering department, and Prof. Garfunkel from the Chemisty deparment at Rutgers University.

June 1st, 2009

Congratulations to Goki Eda for winning the Newton International Fellowship sponsored by The Royal Society. Goki will proceed to work as a Newton Fellow at the Imperial College London after his completion of doctoral studies.

May 1st, 2009

Our paper entitled "ZnO nanowire networks for macroelectronic devices"(Unalan et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 163501 (2009)) was featured in the Research Highlights of Nature Nanotechnology. For details, please visit: www.nature.com/nnano/reshigh/2009/0509/full/nnano.2009.120.html

April 29th, 2009

Congratulations to Goki Eda for recieving Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research.

Jan 21st, 2009

Prof. Chhowalla has been awarded the the Donald H. Jacobs Chair in Applied Physics. The award recognizes senior faculty who have made distinguished accomplishments in applied physics, the branch of physics that forms the basis for modern technology. See http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2009-01-20.2858251382/article.2009-01-20.3555027942 for more details.

Jan 6th, 2009

Congratulations to Varun Gupta! The organizers of Symposium EE at the 2008 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston have identified Varun’s Paper, as an Outstanding Symposium Paper for the 2008 MRS Fall Meeting. The paper is invited to be published in the Journal of Materials Research and will be highlighted in the table of contents and on the journal page as an “Outstanding Symposium Paper” from the 2008 MRS Fall Meeting.

Congratulations to Varun Gupta on his poster award during Symposium EE at the 2008 Fall MRS Meeting, Boston. To acknowledge Varun’s excellent contributions to the symposium, the organizers and MRS have sent a congratulatory letter as well as a check for $150.

Oct 16th, 2008

Congratulations to Bhavin Parekh for successfully defending his Masters Thesis on transparent and conducting single-walled carbon nanotube thin films.

Sept 2008

We have a new group member HoKwon Kim from Toronto. Welcome to our group, HoKwon!!

June, 2008

Congratulations to Varun Gupta for winning a travel grant for TNT2008 in Oviedo, Spain.

May, 2008

Our article published in Nature Nanotechnology has been featured in News and Views in the May issue of Nature Nanotechnology - a review by Prof. John Rogers - "Electronic materials: Making graphene for macroelectronics"

Apr 14th, 2008

Our article published in Nature Nanotechnology has been featured in MIT Technology Review - "How to Make Graphene"

Mar, 2008

Congratulations to Varun Gupta for winning Grants-in-Aid of research from Sigma Xi.

Jan 31st, 2008

Congratulations to Alokik Kanwal for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on All Organic Memory DevicesUtilizing C60 Molecules and Insulating Polymers.
Click here for his abstract.

Jan 25th, 2008

Congratulations to Steve Miller for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on Organic Photovoltaics.
Click here for his abstract.

Oct, 2007

Prof. Chhowalla is a co-organizer of the 2007 NANO Forum on Carbon Nanotubes-Based Transparent Conducting Films/Thin Film Transistors See their website: http://nanoforum.skku.ac.kr/ for more details.

Oct, 2007

Prof. Chhowalla delivered a Plenary Talk at the MATERIA 2007 (October 7 - 12) Conference on SWNT Thin Films. Link

Jul 2007

Prof. Chhowalla has been promoted early to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2007. He also received the Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence from President McCormick as a part of the promotion.

Mar 29th, 2007

Alokik Kanwal and his team have been short listed for the MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge. They will present their plan with the other two finalists at the MRS Spring 07 Meeting in San Francisco.

Prof. Chhowalla has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award for his proposal on organic memory devices (CAREER: Organic Memory Devices Based on Insulating Polymers and C60 Fullerene Molecules)

Prof. Chhowalla was recently named the Sigma Xi’s Outstanding Young Investigator for the Mid-Atlantic Region

Husnu Emrah Unalan has been chosen for the MRS Fall 2005 Graduate Student Award for his work on deposition of cubic Zr3N4 thin films