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Check our latest ACS Nano paper at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…, presenting an adjustable protocol for the synthesis of full-spectrum InP-based QDs with +90% quantum efficiency. Collaboration with Uni Hamburg, FAU Erlangen and Uni Toulouse.

Thanks to great work of theowenlab, we could extend predictive QD sizing (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…) to ZnS QDs. Check our comment Chemistry of Materials !

Colloidal QD lasers gain traction, but will they ever use InP-based QDs for optical gain? Check our first observation of stimulated emission from InP/ZnSe QDs in Adv Optical Mat (doi.org/10.1002/adom.2…) !

Congrats to Kai-Wen for winning the best master thesis dissertation for his work on colloidal quantum dot VECSELS, a challenging topic but a great student always makes it work out ! Photonics UGent Dries Van Thourhout

Our first steps into the synthesis of colloidal fluorescent MoS2 ! Great work from Gabriele Pippia pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Excited to share our work on the Role of Thermally Occupied Hole States in Room‐Temperature Broadband Gain in CdSe/CdS Giant‐Shell Nanocrystals ! Great job from Ivo on extending state-filling to tens of excitons while including temperature, congrats ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Attendees of the #EMLEM22 conference gathered in a group photo. Incredible researchers, incredible scenery. 🏝️ nanoge.org/EMLEM22/home

🏆Jari Leemans (Jari Leemans) wins a Best Contributed Talk prize by the Materials journal by MDPI of the Emerging Light Emitting Materials Conference #EMLEM22. Presenting ‘Colloidal III-V Quantum Dot Photodiodes for Short-Wave Infrared Photodetection’. 👉 nanoge.org/EMLEM22/home

Reaching zero-threshold optical gain by electrochemical doping, read our joint work led by @geuchies and Arjan Houtepen in ACS Nano ! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to finally share the news that I was awarded an ERC Starting grant ! Still pinching my arm, but in NOMISS, we’ll explore nanocrystals for mid-infrared light amplification to enable low-cost chemical sensors. More to follow very soon ! European Research Council (ERC) Ghent University Research #ERCStg

Wishing you all the best for the new year, a good health and lots of warmth, and of course a merry Christmas ! Finally, a big shout-out to our recently graduated PhDs Carmelita Rodà Alessio Di Giacomo and Gabriele Pippia , best of luck in your upcoming adventures, we'll miss you !

Where are the ligands ? Find out how spectral hole burning can be used to distinguish edge and facet-bound ligands on InP nanocrystals in our latest Chemistry of Materials in collaboration with Ivan Infante pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…. Try this approach for your nanocrystals too !

Read our overview of 10 year of NMR studies on nanocrystal ligands in Accounts of Chemical Research ! pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102… Published in the special issue “Ligand and Surface Chemistry of Nanoparticles”. Looking forward to the full collection of papers ACS Publications

InP-based QDs bridge the green gap in solid-state lighting. Read our latest results in Nano Letters (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…) on QD-on-chip color conversion in collaboration with Light and Lighting Laboratory and Qustom Dot !

Aching for more #QuantumDots news after the #NobelPrize? Excited to share our latest work in Nature Nanotechnology about gain and lasing in Bulk Nanocrystals! Made possible by the collaboration between PCN and Photonics UGent. Dries Van Thourhout Pieter Geiregat nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congratulations to our Ona Segura for a successful final PhD defense and thanks to the examiners Zeger Hens PCN, David Norris David Norris Lab at ETH and Jillian Dempsey Jillian Dempsey for the interesting questions and discussion!! Good luck for your future adventure CongreveLab 👏🏻

The world's fastest Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) QD-based photodiode with a record 4 ns response time and EQE of 42% at 1330 nm, a great feat by Yu-Hao Deng and the whole team ! Read it now in @AdvSciNews Advanced Materials. doi.org/10.1002/adma.2…

There is a Ph.D. position available on the synthesis of 2D nanoplatelets ! Anticipated start date : 1st of September. More information can be found in the link below: ugent.be/en/work/scient… If you are interested please apply, if you know someone who could be, please share !

PhD positions alert ! We have 3 openings in our team at Ghent University (Belgium) in the framework of a Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network with a host of European partners. Please check out the website : nano.ugent.be/content/jobs and apply now !