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Lauren McCarthy joined the Ringe group for the summer! She graduated from the University of Florida, with a bachelors in science in chemistry. She received the prestigious NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and decided to come to Rice after being … Continue reading →

Dayne Swearer presented a poster at the Gordon Research conference – Noble metal Nanoparticles. His poster was entitled: “Heterometallic Antenna-Reactor Nanostructures for Photocatalysis”. After reviewing his poster, he was selected to give a talk at the meeting!

Camden Dore, a sophomore undergraduate student at Lone Star College, is going to be joining the Ringe group for a 10-week research experience for undergraduates (REU) funded by the NSF. Camden will be working closely with Eduardo Villarreal, conducting research … Continue reading →

On Monday, May 16th, the Ringe group presented four science modules at The Lighthouse of Houston, a place dedicated to serve blind and visually impaired people.   Anthony Stender presented a module entitled “Scale Analysis”, where he explained the concept of … Continue reading →

Multi-dimensional electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques at the edge! Prof Emilie Ringe and her group collaborated with Cambridge University, University of Pittsburgh, and the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons to study platinum nanoparticles (diameter = 3-6nm) grown on gold … Continue reading →

Anjli Kumar, Dayne Swearer, and Eduardo Villarreal participated at The Smaller-Curl Institute (SCI) Annual Transdisciplinary Symposium by giving research presentations. The Symposium provided graduate students with an opportunity to fine-tune their presentations in preparation for professional meetings. The emphasis is … Continue reading →

The Electron Microscopy Center (EMC) user meeting will be held this Friday, 12-1:30, at the Farnsworth pavilion of the student center! It is open to all TEM and SEM users across campus. The meeting will be a great opportunity to learn … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Anjli and Dayne, who passed their qualifier in the department of chemistry! Dayne successfully presented his research proposal involving catalysis using aluminum decorated nanoparticles, in which he showed his promising results using aluminum nanoparticles decorated with platinum. Anjli, on the other … Continue reading →

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is a place full of fun, tradition, and well… The Ringe Group! (or at least last Tuesday). Dr. Ming Tang’s graduate students accompanied the group, and everyone had lots of laughs and delicious food. Go … Continue reading →

Dr Emilie Ringe has recently made a collaboration with Beijing University’s professor Zhengjun Zhang to study the plasmon modes and near-field enhancements of gold nanorod arrays. The results have been published in the Scientific Reports journal with the title “Tunable … Continue reading →