Welcome new lab members York Chu and Yuezhou Chen!

Graduate students York Chu and Yuezhou Chen have joined the Talapin group! York will work on the advanced optical characterization and synthesis of novel III-V quantum dots. Yuezhou is rejoining us from Peking University’s exchange program from the summer of...

Congratulations to Dr. Di Wang!

Congratulations to Dr. Di Wang! He has successfully defended his thesis “Molecular and solid-state chemistry synergy in the synthesis of 2D transition metal carbide MXenes.” See an example of his outstanding work here.

Congratulations to Tanya Chen!

Tanya Chen has been awarded the Danute Nitecki Fellowship for excellence in research! The Fellowship will support her work in the synthesis, surface chemistry and stabilization of III-V semiconductor nanocrystals during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Talapin lab does its part to keep labs safe

The Joint Research Safety Initiative at UChicago works to promote worker-driven safety at labs across UChicago, performing peer walkthroughs and safety “competitions” to recognize outstanding efforts to keeping our lab workers safe. JRSI recently...