Author Archives: Ed

Congratulations to Eduardo, who passed his qualifier in the department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering! Eduardo successfully presented his research proposal about structural dependence of light-matter interactions via correlated optical-electron microscopy, where he studies and evaluates metal nanoparticles and transition metal dichalcogenides. … Continue reading →

After more members joining the Ringe Group, lab areas needed to be redistributed… and places needed to be cleaned. For this reason, all the members of the group got together last Saturday to clean and organize the lab. As a … Continue reading →

Houston is know to have a hot and humid weather most of the year. However, an amazing weather  showed up for Houstonians. Prof. Ringe and Prof. Biggins took a break & worked outside at Rice graduate student bar, Valhalla!

The Ringe Group is proud to welcome two NSF graduate students fellows pursuing a PhD in Chemistry: Lauren McCarthy and Sarah Rehn! Sarah Rehn did her undergraduate studies at Boise State University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in … Continue reading →

The Ringe group has been heavily involved in creating science modules and organizing events to help individuals with visual impairments (see here and here). Find more information about “Communicating Science Concepts to Individuals with Visual impairments Using Short Learning Modules” here.

Dr Sadegh Yazdi collaborated with members from both Jae-Hwang Lee and Edwin L. Thomas groups to study the dynamic creation and subsequent static evolution of extreme gradient nanograined structures in initially near–defect-free single-crystal silver microcubes. The findings were published in Science … Continue reading →

Emilie Ringe was one of the 58 scientist and engineers from 41 research institutions and small business who received the Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP). The selected people will receive the grant over a 3 year period. 230 … Continue reading →

Dayne Swearer collaborated with members from both Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander groups to study the photocatalytic activity of Al-Pd nanodisk heterodimers. To find more about the article, click here.

Anthony has accepted a tenure track faculty position in the chemistry department at Ohio University.  He will be teaching courses in forensic chemistry and microscopy.  For his research projects, Anthony will focus on applying single particle methodologies to the study … Continue reading →

The Scientific Exchange (SciX) conference is presented by the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS). Where leading scientists gather to present research updates and network. Emilie Ringe presented a talk entitled “Active Control of Near-Field Distribution in Plasmonic … Continue reading →