June 2025, our research paper titled "Syntheses, crystal structures, and electronic structures of new barium fluoromolybdates" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2025.125502)
May 2025, Chloe received the Alabama Graduate Research Scholar Program (GRSP) for the year 2025-2026, Congratulations!
February 28, 2025, our two high school student researchers, Urvi Mysore (in picture) and Isabella Bao, won first and third places at the North Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair (NARSEF). Congratulations to them!
December 2024, our research paper titled "Syntheses and Crystal Structures of Four New d0 Transition Metal Tellurites." was accepted for publication in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2024.125143)
November 2024, our group was awarded $264,134 in funding from the NSF EPSCoR Track 4 program (Award number: 2429504) to conduct research on the growth of large crystals and the investigation of their optical properties.
August 2024, Chloe Jones joined the group as a Ph.D. student.
Summer 2024, RCEU student, Mary Douglas presented her work in the RCEU & HCR poster section.
July 2024, Dr. Ling is serving as the guest editor for the special issue of Molecules titled "Inorganic Nonlinear Optical Materials". For more information on this issue, please visit the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules/special_issues/GTYG608L46
June 2023, our research paper titled "Two pure inorganic cationic tellurite materials based on group IB metal tetrafluoroborates with similar lamellar cationic layers: [Cu2F(Te2O5)](BF4) and [Ag18O2(Te4O9)4(Te3O8)(BF4)2]ּ2HBF4” was accepted by Inorg. Chem. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00856 )
May 2023, Dr. Ling attended the Synchrotron XRD workshop at Argonne National Laboratory.
September 2022, Oluwasegun Raji joined the group as a Ph.D. student.