Prof. Filler partners with MSE
Prof. Filler has received a courtesy appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, which will enable closer collaborations with students and faculty in the School.
Amy Brummer joins the Filler lab
Amy Brummer joined the Filler lab starting this fall semester. She's co-advised with Eric Vogel from Materials Science and Engineering and will be working on scalable methods to fabricate nanowire-based devices. Welcome, Amy!
Dr. Filler named Traylor Faculty Fellow
Dr. Filler was named the Traylor Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.
Dr. Filler presents at Telluride Workshop
Dr. Filler gave an invited talk at the TSRC Workshop on Defect Chemistry and Physics of Low Dimensional Materials. Thanks to YuHuang Wang and Phil Collins for the invitation!
Dr. Filler talks about embracing failure at the National Student Leadership Conference
Dr. Filler joined participants of the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC) at Georgia Tech to talk about the role of failure in science and engineering.
Congratulations to Amar and Maritza
Congratulations to Maritza Mujica and Amar Mohabir for successfully defending their Ph.D. thesis proposals. Next stop: Ph.D.!
Tech researchers team up for advanced materials
Dr. Filler is one of several GT faculty highlighted in a recent feature story about the newly formed Center for the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Interfaces (STAMI) at Georgia Tech.
Weize's paper on plasmonic nanocrystal oxidation/reduction accepted for publication
The first manuscript from a collaboration between the Filler and McDowell labs at Georgia Tech has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Titled "Reversible Tuning of the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Indium Tin Oxide Nanocrystals by Gas-Phase Oxidation and Reduction," the work combined in situ infrared spectroscopy and reaction-diffusion modeling to understand the gas phase oxidation and reduction of plasmonic ITO nanocrystals. Weize Hu lead the effort, which included computational contributions from Siwei Guo and TEM imaging from Matthew Boebinger.
Review article on nanomanufacturing published online
A review/perspective paper authored by Profs. Filler, Behrens, and Breedveld, as well as Ph.D. student Maritza Mujica, titled "Process Principles for Large-Scale Nanomanufacturing" has been published online in the Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. This paper outlines the process needs for translating recent advances in nanoscience to economically viable manufacturing environments.
Ho Yee's paper on Si/Ge heterostructure nanowires accepted for publication
Ho Yee's paper “Low-Temperature Growth of Axial Si/Ge Nanowire Heterostructures Enabled by Trisilane” has been accepted for publication by Chemistry of Materials. He used a new precursor chemistry to create nanowires containing axial Si/Ge heterostructures, which are useful building blocks for large-area electronic circuits and thermoelectrics.
Amar Mohabir wins teaching award
Amar Mohabir is a recipient of the 2016 Shell Outstanding ChBE TA Award. He received this departmental award based on not only high teaching ratings from his students, but also extensive personalized feedback detailing how he had a positive impact on his students' learning. Congratulations!
Prof. Filler visits U. Chicago and U. South Florida
Prof. Filler recently gave invited talks at the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago and at the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida. In both cases, the title of his talk was "The Vapor-Liquid-Solid Mechanism: Encoding Heterogeneity at the Nanoscale" and featured the work of current student Dmitry Boyuk and former students Saujan Sivaram and Li-Wei Chou.
Welcome Chengquan Wang
Chengquan Wang recently joined the group as a postdoctoral scholar. He hails from Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang, China and will be studying the synthesis and properties of plasmonic nanoparticles. Welcome to the team!
Prof. Filler speaks at the Chemical Reactions at Surfaces GRC
Prof. Filler gave an invited talk at the Chemical Reactions at Surfaces Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Lucca, Italy. He spoke about the lab's work on nanowire surface chemistry and its ability to choreograph growth.
Welcome Gözde Tütüncüoglu
We are excited to welcome Gözde Tütüncüoglu to the group as a postdoc. She received her Ph.D. from EPFL working with Anna Fontcuberta i Morral on the MBE growth of nanostructures. At Georgia Tech, Gözde will be working to understand and control thermal transport in semiconductor nanostructures. She is a joint member of the Filler and Maldovan groups.
Prof. Filler gives invited talk at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA
Prof. Filler gave an invited talk in Symposium NM1 : Semiconducting Nanowires, Nanoribbons and Heterostructures—Synthesis, Characterizations and Functional Devices at the 2016 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA. His talk, titled "Designing Next Generation Semiconductor Nanowire Growth Processes," showcased work from former students Naechul Shin and Saujan Sivaram as well as current student Ho Yee Hui.
Maddy Baker and Sterling Smith named Air Products Undergraduate Research Scholars
Congrats to Maddy Baker and Sterling Smith for being named Air Products Undergraduate Research Scholars for the 2016/2017 school year. This award supports their respective research projects on nanowire growth and infrared nanophotonics. Thanks to Air Products for their support of our undergrads!
Filler Lab presents at AVS and AIChE
Weize Hu presented a talk titled "Influence of Surface Reaction on the Infrared Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Indium Tin Oxide Nanocrystals" at the 63rd AVS Symposium and Exhibition in Nashville, TN and the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Great work! Prof. Filler also presented on behalf of Dmitriy Boyuk, Ho Yee, and Saujan Sivaram at both meetings.
Saujan's paper featured on cover of Nano Letters
Saujan Sivaram's recently published paper “Surface Hydrogen Enables Subeutectic Vapor–Liquid–Solid Semiconductor Nanowire Growth” has been highlighted on the cover of the November 2016 issue of Nano Letters. Martin Ek created this stunning image.
The illustration shows the crucial role of surface chemistry in subeutectic vapor-liquid-solid nanowire synthesis. The nanowire (dark gray) in the background of the cover has hydrogen atoms (white balls) adsorbed on its sidewalls, allowing the AuGe catalyst (in gold) to remain in a supercooled liquid state. The loss of this surface passivation opens a pathway for catalyst atoms (gold balls) to access the nanowire sidewall, as shown by the nanowire in the foreground, which ultimately results in catalyst solidification.