6/7/2014 Boettcher lab Joins Twitter! Follow us @Boettcherlab
6/1/2014 Congratulations to Richard Cramer and Mahkah Wu for successful Undergraduate Honors College Theses. Excellent work! We wish you the best of luck in the next phase of your careers.
4/28/2014 Boettcher wins UO RIGE Early Career Faculty Award thanks to excellent work by all group members.
4/17/2014 Boettcher lab members on tab for 7 talks and 3 posters at Materials Research Society Meeting in San Francisco next week. Good luck!
4/11/2014 Shannon returns from whirlwind tour of Michigan Universities – visits and gives invited talks at Michigan State, University of Michigan, and Wayne State.
4/1/2014 Richard Cramer receives an Honorable Mention for his application to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Congratulations Richard on this impressive distinction!
3/17/2014 Lena defends her thesis; does OUTSTANDING JOB. Congratulations Dr. Trotochaud!
3/10/2014 TJ’s paper is accepted in Physical Review Letters! Congratulations to TJ on this outstanding achievement.
2/25/2014 Lena Trotochaud accepts postdoctoral position at Berkeley working with Prof. Alexis Bell as part of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis after her highly successful PhD work in the Boettcher lab. Her thesis defense is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on Monday, March 17th in Klamath 107. We will miss Lena tremendously!
2/18/2014 Shannon wins 2014 Cottrell Scholar Award for work in solar water splitting materials and proposed undergraduate research program! link
1/8/14 Shannon gives invited talk at Electrochemistry Gordon Conference in Ventura, CA.
12/31/13 Athavan’s work featured on the cover of Chemistry of Materials.
12/21/13 Fuding Lin’s research listed as “most read” on Nature Materials Website.
12/3/13 News story on Fuding’s Nature Materials paper.
11/21/13 Adam Smith’s paper on tungsten oxide nanowire growth mechanisms is accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry! Congratulations Adam!
10/11/13 Fuding’s paper is accepted in Nature Materials!!! Congratulations to Fuding on this impressive achievement.
10/8/13 New papers accepted in Chem. Mat. (congratulations to Athavan) and in PNAS (collaborative work within CSMC).
6/18/13 Boettcher group moves into BRAND NEW lab space in LISB. Picture to follow once move is done!!
6/15/13 Ann Greenaway and Michaela Burke join the Boettcher Lab. Welcome!!!
6/13/13 Shannon presents invited talk at The International Conference on Materials for Solar fuels in Granada Spain: http://www.nanoge.org/SolarFuel13/
5/30/13 Shannon presents GaAs work at UCLA in Electrical Engineering Dept.
5/1/13 Shannon gives invited talk on CSVT GaAs work at SPIE conference in Baltimore.
4/22/13 Story on “Mad Duck” outreach program in C&EN..
4/11/13 Shannon gives invited talk on the groups catalysis and interfaces research at the Spring ACS meeting in New Orleans.
4/5/13 Adam Smith gives an oral presentation on his tungsten oxide nanowire growth mechanism research at the Spring MRS in San Francisco.
4/4/13 Lena Trotochaud’s talk (listen to the preview here: http://www.prolibraries.com/player/?libname=mrs&sessionID=595 or make an account for full access) and Richard Cramer’s poster featured in MRS National Meeting Scene newsletters. Great job guys! Links below:
http://www.mrs.org/spring-2013-meeting-scene-day-3/
http://www.mrs.org/s13-meetingscene-d2/
3/30/13 Annie Greenaway wins prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Annie! Well deserved!
3/14/13 NSF Catalysis grant selected for funding! Thanks to Lena for assistance in preparation of the grant application.
3/7/13 Congratulations to Lena on the acceptance of her manuscript to Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
2/24/13 “Meet a Scientist Day” at The Science Factory in Eugene featured in the Register-Guard. Read the article here.
2/22/13 Boettcher Lab welcomes new post-doctoral researcher Sangeun Chun. Welcome to Oregon, Sangeun!!! Sangeun will be leading the UO team in collaboration with OSU and UCSB on the newly funded arpa-e project to study and develop new classes of redox supercapacitors for electrical energy storage.
2/8/13 Outreach collaboration featured in Register-Guard article, the major Eugene-Springfield newspaper (MadDuck2013.pdf).
12/17/12 Shannon gives lecture at the NSF-sponsored Materials Research School held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as part of JUAMI – the Joint US Africa Materials Institute.
11/27/12 Shannon gives talks at Boston Fall MRS and DuPont, and visits Proton Energy Systems – manufacturers of advanced electrolysis equipment.
11/16/12 Dreyfus foundation selects “Mad Duck Science Friday” outreach program for three years of funding. Many thanks to our collaborator Prof. Mike Pluth (http://pages.uoregon.edu/pluth/index.html) for leading the grant application process and to all the other student and faculty volunteers, and to our fantastic partners in the Springfield School District!
10/31/12 Happy Halloween from Elena Boettcher (costume provided by the Boettcher group!)
10/24/12 GaAs vapor transport project selected for funding negotiation through DOE Sunshot program with Molecular Foundry collaborator Dr. Shaul Aloni. Thanks to Andy Ritenour for assistance in preparing the grant application.
9/24/12 Shannon is the first ever invited speaker in the up-and-coming Materials Science Department of University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
9/19/12 Lena’s paper on thin film oxygen evolution electrocatalysts is accepted for publication as an article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
9/13/12 Shannon organizes and chairs the annual Materials Science Institute Conference. Lena Trotochaud wins first place in the poster competition, judged by the invited outside speakers and industry attendees!
9/4/12 Adam Smith wins NSF GK-12 fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year. Congratulations Adam!!!
8/30/12 Shannon presents invited 3-hr Tutorial Lecture on “Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry and Photocatalysis” at the International Center for Materials Research Summer School on Inorganic Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage at UC Santa Barbara (link). Tutorial slides are available here.
8/28/12 Welcome Athavan Nadarjah, a new postdoc joining the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry and the Boettcher group. Athavan did is PhD work at Portland State University in Physics and will work with the Electronic and Ionic Thin Films sub-group of the CSMC.
8/15/12 We are pleased to announce the arrival of the Boettcher Baby – Elena Marie! Congratulations Shannon and Mel!!!
6/13/12 Department of Energy, Basic Energy Science grant entitled “Semiconductor-Electrocatalyst Contacts: Theory, Experiment, and Applications to Solar Water Photoelectrolysis” is selected for funding! Thanks to Fuding for his help in preparing the grant application.
6/6/12 Andy Ritenour presents his GaAs research at the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists conference in Austin Texas and is nominated for a poster award. Good job Andy! IEEE paper forthcoming.
5/25/12 “Mad Duck Science Friday” outreach program family night finale was a great success! Thanks to all involved.
5/3/12 Shannon gives invited talk at Oregon State University in Materials Science .
3/10/12 Shannon gives invited talk at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Labs.
3/8/12 Beckman Scholars proposal to the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is selected for funding. The program will provide research scholarships to top undergraduate researchers in chemistry at the University of Oregon! Application: http://pages.uoregon.edu/swb/Beckman.html
3/7/12 Boettcher on the Cover of Oregon Quarterly. link
1/24/12 Boettcher research mentioned in Nature Materials – News and Views discussion of MRS Fall 2011 Solar Fuels Symposium. http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v11/n2/full/nmat3233.html?WT.ec_id=NMAT-201202
12/16/11 Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Fuding Lin joins the Boettcher group. Fuding received his PhD in Physics from the University of Oregon in 2009 working with Prof. Mark Lonergan studying charge transport in mixed ionic-electronic systems. Since then he has been the technical director for the new SuNRISE Photovoltaic Lab at University of Oregon. Fuding will be leading the project “Semiconductor-electrocatalyst contacts: theory, experiment, and applications to solar water photoelectrolysis“. Welcome Fuding!
12/2/11 Andy’s first paper on CSVT GaAs photoelectrochemistry is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations Andy!!!
11/29/11 Shannon presents at MRS Fall Conference in Advanced Materials for Solar-Fuel Generation session.
10/11/11 Boettcher group / UO outreach partnership with the Springfield School district “Mad Duck Science Friday’s” that provides middle and high school students with hands-on science education on district furlough days is covered in the local paper, Springfield Times. (Article here) Outreach activities also highlighted on local public radio station during NPR morning news! (see outreach page for more details on outreach activities)
10/10/11 Lena’s first (the Boettcher group’s first) manuscript is accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials. Congratulations Lena!!!
9/16/11 Boettcher group undergraduate researcher Ben Nail wins 1st place (and $250!) in the poster competition at the PNW American Vacuum Society Meeting with his poster on tungsten oxide nanostructures. James Ranney takes 2nd place for his research on electrocatalysis. Congratulations to Ben and James for winning the top two awards!
9/16/11 Shannon gives invited lecture at the Pacific Northwest American Vacuum Society Conference.
9/8/11 Phase II Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry is funded at 20M over 5 years! The Boettcher group is heavily involved in CSMC research. http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2011/9/center-sustainable-materials-chemistry-going-phase-2
9/7/11 Lena is elected Funding Chair of the University of Oregon Women in Graduate Sciences.
8/12/11 Andy Ritenour wins Best Poster for his thin film GaAs growth/photoelectrochemistry work at the ICMR Workshop on Emerging Materials for Thin Film Solar Cells at UC Santa Barbara.
6/28/11 Lena gives first formal student talk at the ACS NORM on her work on oxide nanoparticle synthesis.
6/28/11 Shannon organizes session with fellow photoelectrochemist, Erik Johansson (Portland State University) on Renewable Energy at the ACS NORM meeting. Shannon presents Andy’s work on GaAs photoelectrodes.
6/27/11 UCORE student Kerisha Williams joins James Ranney and mentor Lena Trotochaud in electrocatalyst research for the summer. Welcome!
6/21/11 Undergraduates Tre Buchanan (physics, UO) and Solly Levinrad (ChemE, OSU) join the group for the summer! Welcome! Tre is working with graduate student mentor Adam Smith and fellow undergraduate Ben Nail (McNair Scholar) to design and understand nanostructured oxides for water splitting. Solly is teaming with fellow undergrad Richard Cramer (Chemistry/Physics UO) and mentor Andy Ritenour to design new types of III-V photoelectrodes.
6/16/11 Shannon is named Dupont Young Professor! http://onlinepressroom.net/DuPont/NewsReleases/
6/13/11 Graduate student Adam Smith officially joins the group. Welcome Adam!
6/11/11 Boettcher Group volunteers in the 14th annual Solar Challenge with local middle school students
3/17/11 Shannon is invited to present at NSF-sponsored meeting focusing on “materials by design”
3/7/11 Graduate Student visitation weekend. Photos from Oregon Coast trip.
2/15/11 Shannon awarded seed grant from Office of Naval Research through the Oregon Nano and Microscience Institute to study carrier collection in oxide photoanodes.
12/15/10 Lena presents groups’ first poster at the Materials Science Institute Conference
6/15/10 First students join the group – Lena Trotochaud and Andy Ritenour!