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Our group is dedicated to design, synthesis and characterization of emerging inorganic functional materials for energy and health applications. We are particularly interested in, but not limited to, solid state cooling materials, nonlinear optical materials, photocatalytic degradation catalysts, and thermoelectric materials. The successful design of functional materials requires comprehensive knowledge of chemical bonds, crystal and electronic structures, microstructures, interfaces, defect chemistry, crystal growth, and properties characterization. We always welcome talented undergraduate and graduate students to be engaged in our lab and address fundamentally essential problems at the interface of inorganic chemistry, condensed matter physics, and materials science. Students in our lab will become experts in designing functional materials through learning various synthetic methods, crystal growth techniques, characterization techniques (X-ray and neutron crystallography, thermal analysis and spectroscopy, etc.), physical property measurements, as well as theory simulations.

News

9/30/2024 Our invited review paper about "Chemical Perspectives of Heteroanionic Compounds and a Potential Playground for Multiferroics" was accepted to Materials Chemistry Frontiers. Are Heteroanionic Compounds are a Potential Playground for Multiferroics?

9/11/2024 Karishma's paper about new bismuthides NdZn0.6Bi2 and (La0.5RE0.5)Zn0.6Bi2 (RE=Nd, Pr) was accepted to Inorganic Chemistry. We are trying to understand why RETBi2(RE= La-Lu, T=transition metals) system does not have similar properties as AETBi2 (AE= Ca, Sr, Ba, T=transition metals), even though they all have Bi square nets and other comparable structure features? https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c02713

8/17/2024 Undergraduate Students David Rich , Mrittika Sarkar, Joshua Brooks, started undergraduate research in our lab. Welcome!

6/17/2024 Delfin visiting students José Alejandro Espinoza Partida and Aisha Danae Merlos Alcaraz form Mexico joined our lab to do summer research, Welcome!

6/1/2024 Watkins Summer Fellows Prof. James Titah from Tabor College joined our lab to do summer research, Welcome!

5/25/2024 Undergraduate students Zane Hubble and Timothy Johnson started undergraduate research in our lab. Welcome!

4/23/2024 Our papers published in ZAAC were recognized as most-cited papers.

1/15/2024 First year undergraduate students (through First Year Research Experience program) Kyra Bergman and Kathryn Villegas joined our lab. Welcome!

12/14/2023 Zixian Jiao and Jasmine Quah's paper about "Synthesis, Crystal and Electronic Structures, Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties, and Photocurrent Response of Oxyhalides CeHaVIO4 (Ha=Cl, Br; VI=Mo, W)" was accepted to Dalton Transactions. Now heteroanionic compounds interact with other effects will bring in more intriguing properties. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DT03640E

10/23/2023 Andrea's paper about "Visualizing the Alignment of Lone Pair Electrons in La3AsS5Br2 and La5As2S9Cl3 to Form an Acentric or Centrosymmetric Structure" was accepted to CrystEngComm,

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CE00834G, Heteroanionic compounds have so much fun!

8/1/2023 Zixian Jiao's paper about Heteroanionic LaBrVIO4(VI=Mo, W) was accepted to Chem. Mater. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01273

5/27/2023 Undergraduate students Jasmine Quah and Danielle Goodwin joined our lab to do research, welcome!

3/17/2023 Gary's work about facile synthesis of 2D violet-P11, a new large bandgap phosphorus allotrope was accepted to J. Am. Chem. Soc.! https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c01766

1/17/2023 Craig Cropek and Bingheng Ji's work about thiophosphates HfP2S6 and α-Ag4P2S6 was accepted to CrystEngComm. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CE01576E

1/12/20223 Undergraduate student: Andrew Goodwin joined our lab to do research. Welcome!

12/14/2022 Bingheng Ji's paper about K2CdGe3S8 and K2CdGe3Se8 was accepted to Inorganic Chemistry. This is a following-up work related to K2CoGe3S8 and K2FeGe3S8 (Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 570, 10603-10613). The importance of distortion degree of tetrahedra were verified in these two papers. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03852

10/19/2012 Craig Cropek and Vivian Nguyen's work about thiophosphates KInP2S7 and KCrP2S7 was accepted to Crystals. This work demonstrates the chemical flexibility of thiophosphates (such as bandgap can be <1 eV for KCrP2S7, while the bandgap for KInP2S7 is 2.4 eV) and promising magnetic and optical properties. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst12111505

10/3/2022 Jian Wang's contributed book chapter: Thermoelectric Materials was accepted. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823144-9.00109-6 (led by Dr. Kirill Kovnir @ ISU).

9/2/20222 Undergraduate student: Rachel Cahail joined our lab to do research. Welcome!

6/1/2022 Undergraduate students: Julie Tran, Daniel Ulichnie, and Ruby Hernandez joined our lab to do summer research. Welcome!

4/22/2022 Jian Wang's contributed work on Ba-Cu-Ga-P clathrates is accepted to Appl. Phys. Lett. (led by Dr. Kirill Kovnir @ ISU).

4/4/2022 Jian Wang's contributed work (led by Dr. Jin Hu @ University of Arkansas) was accepted to Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter.

3/22/2022 Stefano Bardelli's paper about Y4Si3S12 was accepted to Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202100388.

2/11/2022 Bing's paper about "A2P2S6 (A=Ba, Pb): A Good Platform to Study Polymorph Effect and Lone Pairs Effect to Form Acentric Structure" was accepted to Dalton Transactions! https://doi.org/10.1039/D1DT04317J

2/1/2022 Vivian's paper about crystal structure engineering to achieve extraordinary middle infrared nonlinear optical materials based on thiophosphate KXP2S6(X=Ba, Sb, Bi) was accepted to Chemical Science! https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC06849K

1/22/2022 Jian contributed work was accepted to Journal of Alloys and Compounds. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.163944

1/17/2022 Undergraduate student Julie, Tran has joined our Group from FYRE program (The First Year Research Experience). Undergraduate students Damilola Oshakuade and Osvaldo Medina Mireles have joined our group. Welcome ALL!

1/13/2022 Bing's paper about chemical flexibility to enhance nonlinear optical properties was accepted to Inorganic Chemistry.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03773

1/3/2022 Graduate student Rahin Karimi has joined our Group, Welcome!

12/6/2021 Zhengyang Ye and Stefano Bardelli's work about Y6IV2.5S14 was accepted to Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202100271

11/30/2021 Jian's work finished at ISU was accepted to Inorganic Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03217

11/8/2021 Jian contributed work was accepted to Chin. Chem. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2021.11.089

10/1/2021 Gary won the 2021 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research, recognizing the collaborative research of an outstanding undergraduate student/preceptor team in the field of inorganic chemistry, as broadly defined. Big congratulations to Gary. Gary and Jian will attend 2022 ACS Spring meeting in San Diego (Mar 20-24, 2022) where the award will be presented to Gary and Jian. https://acsdic.org/awards/acs-division-of-inorganic-chemistry-award-for-undergraduate-research/

9/30/2021 Bingheng Ji's paper about "Thiophosphate Pb3P2S8: A Multifunctional Material Combining a Nonlinear Optical Response and Photocurrent Response" was accepted to Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.,https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP03624F. Undergraduate student Elizabeth Guderjahn contributed to this work, who is listed as the second author.

9/27/2021 Zheyang Ye's paper about Quasi-layered n-type Cu2.83Bi10Se16 was accepted to ACS Appl. Energy Mater. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c02154

9/10/2021 Gary Cicirello's paper about Applying Band Gap Engineering to Tune Linear Optical and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Noncentrosymmetric Chalcogenides was accepted to Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1QI00879J

8/24/2021 A very collaborative work (led by Dr. Jin Hu @ University of Arkansas) was accepted to advanced quantum technologies. https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.202100063

8/15/2021 Undergraduate students Taylor, Grimmett; Michael, Turkali; Osvaldo, Medina Mireles have joined our group, Welcome.

6/15/2021 Bingheng Ji's paper about forming NCS compounds in K2TeGe3S8(T=Co, Fe) was accepted to Inorganic Chemistry, more details here: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01149

5/11/2021 Congratulations to Vivian Nguyen - Wichita State Chemistry Department's recipient of this years ACS Undergraduate award in Inorganic Chemistry.

4/25/2021 Gary Cicirello's paper about quaternary sulfides Ba6(Cu2X)Ge4S16 (X=Mg, Mn, Cd) was published to Journal of Solid State Chemistry, chemical flexibility was found here, more details here: : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2021.122226

1/29/2021 Gary Cicirello's paper about a new ternary compound BaCu5P3 was published to Journal of Solid State Chemistry, BaCu5P3 is the only compound in Ba-Cu-P system which combines Cu-Cu bonds and P-P bonds, more details here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2021.122017.

2/2021 Undergraduate student Ibrahim Touffaha has joined our Group from FYRE program (The First Year Research Experience), Welcome! Now, we have a very big family!

1/2021 Undergraduate students Vivian Nguyen, Stefano Bardelli, Nathan Bretton, and Elizabeth Guderjahn have joined our Group, Welcome!

1/2021 Graduate student Md Barkat Acce has joined our Group, Welcome!

12/2020 Graduate student Elaheh Shahryari has joined our Group, Welcome!

6/2020 Betsey Goering joined our group as Watkins Fellowships recipient to do summer research! Betsey is a chemistry teacher at Wichita High School South, Outreach, never too much!

3/2020 Our paper (collaborated with Prof. Kovnir @ISU) about "Flux Growth of Phosphide and Arsenide Crystals" was published. Check here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00186.

12/2019 Undergraduate student Gary Cicirello has joined our Group, Welcome!

9/2019 Graduate student Craig Cropek (B.A. Fort Hays State University 2018) joins our Group, Welcome!

8/2019 Graduate student ZhengYang Ye (B.S. in Chemistry, Iowa State 2019) joins our Group, Welcome!

8/2019 Graduate student Bingheng Ji (B.S. in Chemistry, Iowa State 2019) joins our Group, Welcome, Bing!

8/2019 New journey starts!

5/2019 Jian's work @ ISU received Postdoctoral Scholar Research Excellence Award!