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David Mitzi quoted in an NBC News article on the future of perovskites

David Mitzi and other prominent researchers were quoted in a recent NBC News story on the prospects for perovskite solar cell technology.   Read original story

Akash's study on phase-change perovskites was highlighted on Perovskite-info!

Akash Singh and Manoj Jana recently reported on the crystalline-glass tranisition in a metal halide pervoskite and their work was featured on the site Perovskite-info.    Read the full story at Perovskite-info Link to the study in Advanced Materials

David Mitzi named among the "Most Highly Cited Researchers" for another year!

David Mitzi was once again included in the list of the world's "Most Highly Cited Researchers" by Clarivate for 2020.  Pratt news story Duke Research Blog story

Spotlight on Manoj's new Nature Communications article!

Congratulations to Manoj on publishing his paper on chirality transfer in 2D hybrid perovskites in Nature Communications! The Pratt School highlighted his intriguing work in a recent news article.     

Jiwoo is inducted into Tau Beta Pi!

Jiwoo Song, along with 14 other outstanding Duke undergraduate engineering students were virtually inducted in April into Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honors society.  Congratulations Jiwoo!

David Mitzi listed among world's Highly Cited Researchers

David Mitzi is one of six Duke engineering professors (and 54 total Duke Universitiy researchers) included in Clarivate Analytics annual list of Highly Cited Researchers.  Read the full news update Read the original story from Duke Today

Betul wins the 2019 FIP Chambers Scholarship

Betul is one of five Duke graduate students awarded the scholarships and fellowships from the Fitzpatrick Institute of Photonics for the 2019-2020 year.  READ THE FULL ANNOUNCMENT

David Mitzi wins 2020 ACS National Award for Chemistry of Materials

David Mitzi, the Simon Family Professor of Duke Engineering and a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, has won the 2020 American Chemical Society National Award in the Chemistry of Materials, sponsored by...

Wiley successfully defends his dissertation!

Wiley Dunlap-Shohl today defended his dissertation titled "Novel Fabrication Approaches for Optoelectronic Halide Semiconductor Thin Films and Devices." Wiley was Dr. Mitzi's first PhD student and will soon be joining the Hillhouse research group at the...

Dr. Mitzi named to 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list

David Mitzi is one of six Duke engineering professors named to Clarivate Analytics "Highly Cited Researchers" list. READ THE FULL STORY

Betul & Jiwoo present their solution processing work during Duke's Energy Week

As a part of Duke's Energy Week, Betul and Jiwoo presented their work on solution processing of CBTS absorbers for solar and photoelectrochemical cells at the Energy Technology Exhibition. 

Wiley publishes a comprehensive review on synthesis methods for halide perovskite thin-films!

Congratulations to Wiley, who recently published a review article entitled "Synthetic Approaches for Halide Perovskite Thin Films" in Chemical Reviews to be featured in an upcoming special issue on halide perovskites. 

Supercomputer Predicts Optical and Thermal Properties of Complex Hybrid Materials

Computational models of layered hybrid perovskites open new material design space for light-based applications such as LEDs and water purification   Materials scientists at Duke University computationally predicted the electrical and optical properties...

RTNN awards Maryam their 2018 Collaborative Research Award & Maxine the Student Outreach Awards

The RTNN is pleased to announce its outstanding 2018 award recipients. The awardees were all honored at a dinner reception. Collaborative Research Award Dr. Khara Grieger and Maryam Khazaee were co-recipients of the Collaborative Research Award. [...]...

Qiwei successfully defends his PhD thesis!

Qiwei Han, who is a joint student in the Jie Liu research group, successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Additive Engineering for High-Performance Perovskite Photovoltaics.” Congrats Qiwei! More information on Qiwei’s dissertation and...