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Welcome to
The Slowing Group
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at Iowa State University
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and the Ames Laboratory
12/21/2018 Sebastián's last day in the lab. A very sad day. Here is the symbolic track he left behind. Of course he left much more than that over these five years, but we are glad to have a constant reminder in the office of his time in our group. Looking forward for his new achievements and for having him visit us several times in the future. All the best!
12/14/2018 Introducing Dr. Juan Sebastián Manzano! Awesome work for 5 years in the group, helping to shape our group in so many different ways. Now he moves for a postdoc with Leroy Cronin at Glasgow University in Scotland. Bittersweet news, sad and happy to see him go. Keep making us proud, you will be greatly missed here!
11/30/2018 Along with us, Canfield, Soukoulis and Bud'ko in Physics are in the 1% highly cited authors of 2018 as stated in the Ames Lab newsfeed. Congratulations!
11/27/2018 We made it to the web of science list of highly cited researchers (top 1% in the world for 2018!!!). This is the result of the hard work of many people, congratulations to everybody!
11/19/2018 Congratulations to Sebastián who successfully defended his dissertation! Great job of Dr. Manzano over these years to set the basis for the direct 3D printing of chemically active architectures. Kudos!
11/12/2018 New paper accepted in collaboration with MetaFlo technologies Inc. and Fred Perras demonstrating structural transformations in concrete upon application of a novel recycling technology. Free text available for 50 days in this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1Y45c21ISXA~c
11/11/2018 Welcome to our newest group members: first year graduate students Puranjan Chatterjee and Syed Joy joined our team. We are looking forward for great years of wonderful science ahead!
10/23/2018 Great talks by Dilini and Sebastián at the ACS Midwest Regional Meeting and an awesome poster presentation by Cindy. Keep it up!
10/15/2018 Welcome to Dr. Yuchen Pei who is joining us as a postdoctoral fellow. Yuchen will be developing materials for polymer upconversion catalysis. Excited to have him around!
10/10/2018 Welcome to Prof. Wei Shi, who is joining us for one year as a visiting scholar from Huazhong Argicultural University, China. We hope he will have a terrific and productive year in the lab!
9/20/2018 Hui 's last day in the lab. He is now joining ETH Zürich as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. We are sure he will do an awesome job there. We will miss him here. Prior to departing, he fulfilled our artistic requirement giving us the first piece for our alumni gallery.
8/21/2018 Hui presenting our lignin research in collaboration with the Sadow group during the ACS Fall meeting in Boston. Great talk, true Science and hope he also had great lobster!
8/12/2018 New paper accepted in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Takeshi Kobayashi and Marek Pruski used triple quantum H-H correlations to in solid state NMR to evaluate clustering and proximity between silica-supported organic groups.
8/1/2018 Annie and Bevan presenting their summer work at the poster session. Both did a great job along with their mentors Pranjali and Sebastián. We hope they enjoyed their stay in Ames, keep memories as good as their scientific contributions and have a great time back home!
7/9/2018 New paper accepted in J. Chem. Phys. Andrés García and Jim Evans used Langevin dynamics to calculate passing propensities of reactants in our functionalized mesoporous silicas to explain our observations of pore size dependent conversions.
5/30/2018 Welcome to our new SULI interns. Annie Zhang, Junior in Chemistry from UT Austin and Bevan Whitehead, Senior in Chemistry from Vassar College. They will be working with Pranjali and Sebastián on developing nanostructured catalysts for dearomatization reactions and 3D printing of chemically active devices respectively. Looking forward for a great summer in Ames!
4/24/2018 Jamie presenting his work at the poster session of the Ames Lab Spring SULI CCI program.
Great work, good thing that in contrast to Texas, Iowa's winter/spring weather forced him to be inside the lab!
Explaining his research to Ames Lab Director Adam Schwartz and receiving a recognition from him.
Here with his boss and mentor: Dilini. Great teamwork!
4/17/2018 Celebrating Sebastián's Teaching Excellence award, and Sebastián and Dilini's Alpha Chi Sigma awards for excellence in research! Awesome job!
4/17/2018 According to Google Scholar we just passed the 10,000 citations! A lot of people are behind this accomplishment! https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=amwt65QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
4/11/2018 Dilini and Sebastián got Alpha Chi Sigma awards for their research work. Sebastián also earned a Teaching Excellence award. Congratulations for the hard work!!! Making us proud!
4/11/2018 Dilini and Sebastián presenting their research at the Graduate and Professional Student Senate Research Symposium. Well done!
4/10/2018 Cindy presenting her research at the Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression. Nice job!
4/2/2018 Bosky starting a new position doing catalysis research at UOP Honeywell. All the best for her jump into the industry!
3/20/2018 Free access for 50 days to our latest paper on studying the structural evolution of ordered mesoporous carbons at: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1WlIM1zUAE2ya
3/6/2018 Free access for 50 days to our latest paper on tuning drug release from mesoporous silica via pi-pi interactions at: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WgGb4x7R2Kd0z
2/21/2018 Welcome to our newest group member! Connor McGiness, pre-med track sophomore will be working with Pranjali to explore the chemistry of ceria nanocubes. Welcome on board!
2/5/2018 New paper in Carbon. Zhuoran and Takeshi, from the Pruski group, did SS-NMR spectral editing to help us understand better the structural evolution of ordered mesoporous carbons synthesized by Naftali. Long and thorough back and forth collaboration. Congratulations!
1/14/2018 New paper on AIP Advances. With Helena Khazdozian and Ikenna Nlebedim (CMI) recycling Sm-Co from industrial magnet processing waste to produce filaments for 3D printing bonded magnets. No loss of magnetic properties and some anisotropy observed! Congrats!
1/8/2018 Welcome to our Spring CCI student: Jamie John Mana-ay from Houston. He will be working with Dilini on tuning the activity of supported catalysts based on controlling their local environment.
Principal Investigator: Igor Slowing
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