Crystal Engineering Laboratory

Group News

29 Jan 2021 - Welcome to Masters student, St. John Whittaker, who will brings to our group small molecule synthesis expertise!

05 Jan 2021 - US Patent 10,883,003, "Methods for Producing Polymer Gels, and Uses Thereof," has been issued to Steph and co-inventors Prof. Dilhan Kalyon and Dr. Jing He!

26 Dec 2020 - Aida's first 1st author publication with our group, "Orienting and Shaping Organic Semiconductor Crystals through Selective Nanoconfinement," has been accepted to Soft Matter as part of the 2021 Emerging Investigator Series!

22 Dec 2020 - Steph has accepted an associate professor position in NYU Chemistry, where she did her postdoc! Looking forward to this next adventure!

14 Dec 2020 - Congratulations to 2nd year students Yihang Yuan and Yuze Zhang for passing their PhD oral qualifying exam and officially becoming PhD candidates!

11 Dec 2020 - Congratulations to Aida for passing her Masters thesis defense!

16 Nov 2020 - Our open access review article, "Polymorphism in Metal Halide Perovskites," has been accepted to Materials Advances and has been selected for the 2020 HOT Article Collection! Great job Aida, Abby, Yihang and Yi who spearheaded this effort!

24 Jul 2020 - Yi is awarded the prestigious Stevens Excellence Doctoral Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. Congrats, Yi!

26 Mar 2020 - Steph is promoted to associate professor with tenure, effective September 1

27 Feb 2020 - Steph is awarded $297,175 from the NSF Solid State Materials Chemistry program for her and NYU Prof. Bart Kahr's collaborative proposal on studying charge transport in twisted organic semiconductor crystals. Read about it here!


Our research group is focuses on controlling the solution phase assembly of functional materials for emerging optoelectronic applications

Check our new review article, "Polymorphism in Metal Halide Perovskites," just published as a HOT article in Materials Advances!