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01/03/2023 _ Congratulation to Sheryl for the acceptance of her first paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems entitled “ entitled “Exploring the Evolution of Metal Halide Perovskites via Latent Representations of the Photoluminescent Spectra”: DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202200340

01/01/2023 _ Happy-New-Year! team celebration:

12/16/2022 _ Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Yang, for his recent publication in Advanced Energy Materials in collaboration with Prof. Correa’s team from Georgia Tech.: “Understanding the Role of Cesium on Chemical Complexity in Methylammonium-Free Metal Halide Perovskites”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aenm.202202880

12/01/2022 _ Dr. Ahmadi gave an invited talk at MRS Fall meetings in Boston, presenting our latest research on the use of imaging with spatial resolution to study hybrid perovskites.

11/2022 _ Holland was recognized as the runner-up for the 2022 Fall AVS Nanoscale Science & Technology Graduate Student Competition! She gave a 5 minute rapid-fire talk in front of a panel of judges and audience members for her work titled “The Role of SnO2 Processing on Ionic Distribution in Double Cation-Double Halide Perovskites”.

10/2022 _ Congrats to Holland for being the Student Poster Award winner at the 2022 Annual CNMS User Meeting for her work titled “The Role of SnO2 Processing on Ionic Distribution in Double Cation-Double Halide Perovskites”: https://www.ornl.gov/news/cnms-user-meeting-recognizes-students-and-staff

03/26/2022 _ Congrats to our former postdoc. Dr. Kim, for acceptance of his work on “Light–ferroelectric interaction in two-dimensional lead iodide perovskites” in the journal of Materials Chemistry A.

03/08/2022 _ Dr. Ahmadi was featured on celebrating MRS Women in Science on International Women’s Day _ https://www.mrs.org/careers-advancement/international-womens-day-2022

12/25/2021 _ Congratulations to Dr. Ahmadi and her collaborators at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Charles University (Czech Republic) and UTK on “Origin of Defects and Positron Annihilation in Hybrid and All-Inorganic Perovskites” in the journal of Materials Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03540

12/03/2021 _ Congratulations to Dr. Higgins for defending her Ph.D. thesis and becoming the first Ph.D. student to graduate from Dr. Ahmadi’s Laboratory:

11/19/2021 _ Congrats to Kate for her recent publication in the Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS) entitled “High-Throughput Study of Antisolvents on the Stability of Multicomponent Metal Halide Perovskites through Robotics-Based Synthesis and Machine Learning Approaches” https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c10045

11/01/2021 _ We’d like to welcome Dr. Yang to our group and appreciate his participation in our research endeavors.

10/25/2021 _ Congratulation to Dr. Ahmadi and her collaborators at UTK (Dr. Lass) and ORNL (Dr. Ziatdinov and Dr. Kalinin) and Hong Kong Baptist University (Dr. Zhou), for publication of a perspective in “Joule” on “Machine learning for high-throughput experimental exploration of metal halide perovskites” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435121004451?via%3Dihub

08/12/2021 _ Congratulation to Dr. Ahmadi’s team and her collaborators at ORNL and University of New South Wales, Australia for publication of “Unraveling the Hysteretic Behavior at Double Cations-Double Halides Perovskite – Electrode Interfaces” in the journal of Nano Energy! Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106428

07/13/2021 _ Congratulation to Dr. Kim for his publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Elucidating the Spatial Dynamics of Charge Carriers in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Perovskites

05/26/2021_Published, Journal: Chemistry of Materials, https://pubs.acs.org/articlesonrequest/AOR-CAYN7ZFCZHYUIQQHKA9Y, Title: Ferroelectric and Carrier Transport Properties in Strain-engineered Two-Dimensional Lead Iodide Perovskites.

05/20/2021 _ Dr. Kim had a talk at the 2021 ISAF-ISIF-PFM Joint Conference (May 16-20, 2021, Sydney, Australia), https://isaf-isif-pfm2021.org/, D3L-2: Processing: Thin Films I “Ferroelectric and Carrier Transport Properties in Strain-engineered Two-Dimensional Lead Iodide Perovskites“.

05/18/2021 _ Accepted, Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Title: Exploring Responses of contact-Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Triple Cation Double Halide Perovskites 

05/12/2021 _ Accepted, Journal: Chemistry of Materials, Title: Ferroelectric and Carrier Transport Properties in Strain-engineered Two-Dimensional Lead Iodide Perovskites.

05/06/2021 _ (Preview) Published, Journal: Matter, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590238521001673?dgcid=author, Title: Navigating grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells. 

04/20/2021 _ Dr. Ahmadi was invited to talk at the MRS Spring Meeting 2021 Symposium EN06.08: Take a Closer Look at Perovskite Semiconductors; Title of talk: Guiding Automated Synthesis of Metal Halide Perovskites towards Enhanced Stability:

 04/26/2021 _ Congratulations to Dohyung for acceptance of his paper in Advanced Science. Title: Exploring Transport Behavior in Hybrid Perovskites Solar Cells via Machine Learning Analysis of Environmental-dependent Impedance Spectroscopy

04/18/2021 _ Kate gave a talk at MRS Spring meeting 2021 SESSION CT05.02: Automation and High Throughput I Title: Robotics-Enabled Exploration of Multicomponent Lead Halide Perovskites via Machine Learning

3/12/21 _ Kate and Amanda published an invited paper in Nanophotonics on “Exploring the physics of cesium lead halide perovskites quantum dots via Bayesian inference of the photoluminescence spectra in automated experiment”. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0662/html

2/2021 _ Dr. Ahmadi secured the second-year continuation of joint UTK-ORNL science alliance (StART) funding for further development of “Machine Learning Driven Experimental Approach for the Discovery of New Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronic Applications

12/30/2020 _ Dr. Ahmadi is the recipient of prestigious 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Award “Guiding Automated Synthesis of Hybrid Perovskites Towards Stability via Knowledge of Nanoscale Ionic Mechanisms

12/29/2020 _ Dr. Ahmadi’s and ORNL’s collaborative study on “Giant isotope effect on phonon dispersion and thermal conductivity in methylammonium lead iodide” was highlighted in Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Department of Energy (DOE) website: https://www.energy.gov/science/bes/articles/some-it-hot-boosting-efficiency-solar-cells

12/28/2020 _ Kate’s paper in collaboration with ORNL was highlighted on ORNL website: https://www.ornl.gov/news/automated-chemistry-sets-new-pace-materials-discovery

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