A word of caution from my lab…

Quote of the week at the #EDAI #GRC from Vale Cofer-Shabica of Penn (roughly paraphrased from a few beers): "The feeling of being stupid is just the sensation of learning." #itsogrc

uh... energy?

Hot off the digital press! Check out this beautiful art e-zine, The Periodical, designed by the Yale Chemistry community, celebrating art, science, and diversity in chemistry. drive.google.com/file/d/1Yd2Cfe…

Congratulations to my good friend and colleague @perets_ea! Looking forward to your visit to College of Chemistry next month!

Our recent review on ultrafast spectroscopy of quantum materials is now published in NatRevMaterials! We discuss a few cutting-edge techniques that we apply in the zuerchlab to study non-equilibrium phenomena in materials. nature.com/articles/s4157… College of Chemistry #sHHG

Very excited to see our recent review article on Emerging ultrafast techniques for studying quantum materials nature.com/articles/s4157… featured on the cover of NatRevMaterials . Art credit Ella Marushchenko

Investigating the function and design of molecular materials through terahertz vibrational spectroscopy nature.com/articles/s4157… A Review by Peter Banks, @well_Im_anharm & @DrMikeRug from University of Vermont

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And the wait is over... Read our latest review on how ultrafast THz radiation drives quantum materials to reveal intriguing phenomena at the quantum level NISER ETH Zurich ETH Department of Materials NatRevMaterials Manfred Fiebig Chia-Jung Yang Jingwen nature.com/articles/s4157…

I am very excited about this award and looking forward to the research it will enable! Thanks to DOE Office of Science for the support and our research group UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab for all the terrific research they have done so far!

The California Interfacial Science Institute is now soliciting applications for it's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, which supports two summers of research in CISI-affiliated groups. Applications are due February 15th, see interfacialscience.org/cisi-surf for details. Please RT!

Applications for the CISI Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship are due tomorrow, Feb. 15 at 11:59pm! If you're interested in applying and haven't already, submit your application by following the instructions at interfacialscience.org/cisi-surf! Please retweet!

Ever wonder what’s in a tattoo ink? Turns out lots of things that shouldn’t be there. Our latest in ACS Analytical Chemistry Journals finds that 90% of the tattoo inks we looked at had major discrepancies with the listed ingredients!!! 1/n pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Characterization of Deformational Isomerization Potential and Interconversion Dynamics with Ultrafast X-ray Solution Scattering | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Congratulations to Natalia Powers-Riggs on an excellent paper in JACS!

Pretty cool work at NSLS-II! This was actually the first beamline that I used as a graduate student and my first exposure to XAS. They really need to bring back wood-panel laser tables...