Recent News
Graduate research opportunities available for exceptional students with background in natural sciences or engineering. Please, email Dr. Ignatova: t_ignato@uncg.edu
February 6, 2023
Congrats to Anthony on Sandia National Laboratory Internship!
January 23, 2023
Sajedeh in UNCG news:
https://www.uncg.edu/for-the-love-of-the-lab/
November 21, 2022
Grand Opening of ICONS:
https://www.uncg.edu/new-partnership-accelerates-innovative-materials-to-protect-soldiers/
June28, 2022
Swapna received an extremely competitive IPiE / GCS tutoring graduate assistantship award. Congrats to Swapna!!!
June 24, 2022
Ignatova Lab welcomes summer high school student, Draelos Scholar Ajay
June 20, 2022
Nanowerk Spotlight
https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=60901.php
April 20, 2022
Congrats to Jared, PhD Proposal Defense is done.
April 19, 2022
Congratulations to Adeyinka on successfully defending her PhD thesis "Study of Delivery Systems Utilizing Functionalized Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes"!
April 5, 2022
UNCG NEWS. NANOTECHNOLOGY IN TEXTILES
https://news.uncg.edu/good-idea-jeans-nanotechnology-in-textiles/
March 14–18, 2022 at the APS March Meeting 2022
Jared presented a poster: Averitt, J., Pourianejad, S., Ayodele, O., Ignatova, T. "DFT simulation of polymer (s) on graphene: Polymer conformation and adhesion energy considerations".
Anthony presented a poster: Trofe, A., Schmidt, K., Pourianejad, S., Ayodele, O., Ignatova, T. "Raman Mapping Analysis of Graphene Transferred by Multiple Techniques".
February 11, 2022
Anthony successfully passed his PhD Proposal Defense. Congrats!
January 22, 2022
Nanowerk Spotlight https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=59605.php
December 14, 2021
Congratulations to Sajedeh on successfully defending her PhD thesis "Studying of Two-Dimensional Interfacial Interactions"!
August 2021
Research group accepted two new PhD students Arif and Swapna. Welcome to the board!
July 26, 2021
Dr. Ignatova gave an invited talk "Probing Optical Response of 2D Heterostructures across Interface" at the Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA) Conference, part of the OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2021.
June 14, 2021
The ECS committee selected our B06-0646 Poster and Kirby got the 3rd prize. Congrats to Kirby and co-authors!
June 2, 2021
Our manuscript "Bandgap Recovery of Monolayer MoS2 using Defect Engineering and Chemical Doping " is accepted to publication in the RSC Advances journal. 2021, 11, 20893-20898, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1RA02888J Congrats!
May 30 - June 3, 2021 at 239th ECS Meeting:
Kirby presented a poster "B06-0646 - Intrinsic Shear Strain in Graphene Heterostructures Detected Via Raman Spectroscopy "
Dr. Ignatova gave an invited talk "(Invited) Integration of 2D Materials in Van Der Waals Photonic Heterostructures "
June 2, 2021
Our article "Recent Advances in Nanomaterial-Based Aptasensors in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy" has been published in Nanomaterials as part of the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Nanomaterials—Recent Advances in Biology and Medicines and is available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/4/932/pdf Congrats!
March 24, 2021
Jared has been selected to receive a NSF Graduate Fellowship. Congrats to Jared!!!!
April 28, 2021
Congrats to Jared, ORP is passed.
April 27, 2021
Kirby successfully passed his Proposal Defense.
April 26, 2021
Congrats to Anthony, ORP is passed.
August 1st, 2020
The Ignatova Research group welcomes new PhD students Anthony and Jared!