First time a journal uses fire 🔥 and heart eyes 😍 to describe our work. We’ll take it!

While Chenggang starts his postdoc in AggieLand, his latest work from our group is out in InorgChemFront. Ancillary ligands he previously developed exhibit multiple binding modes, which have big effects on red phosphorescence. Check it out! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

I don't know if the world needs another way to hydrogenate polar double bonds, but here's a cool photoredox method for ketones, aldehydes, and imines pieced together by Vinh Dang. Soon to appear in a special photochemistry issue of Organometallics. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to share that The Mills Lab will start this fall at the University of Houston! This is possible due to my mentors and training Sophie Rousseaux Paul Chirik Chirik Group Stay tuned and follow below for more news: x.com/millslabchem

Congrats to our latest PhD graduate, Dr Michael Rosko ! 🎉

Congrats to Yennie Nguyen for making it across the Ph.D. finish line yesterday! Excellent dissertation on strategies to suppress nonradiative decay and improve quantum yields in blue-phosphorescent platinum complexes.

Highly read review published in CPR! Authored by: Dooyoung Kim and Thomas S. Teets Learn more 👇 aippub.org/44bK16f

The view from reeasrch.gov looks nice today. Grateful to U.S. National Science Foundation chemistry CSDM-B program for awarding us three years of support to improve radiative rates in phosphorescent organometallic compounds. Thanks to the reviewers for their feedback, whoever you are.

Congrats to Dooyoung on his first J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper, describing a sterically-driven approach to improve excited-state lifetimes and photocatalytic activity in a new class of heteroleptic copper(I) photosensitizers. Thanks to DOE Office of Science for the support. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

The dirty dozen: belated congrats to Sungwon, our group’s 12th Ph.D.! Excellent defense yesterday on red to NIR phosphorescence. She’s hoarding all the photos from the occasion so you’ll have to take my word that the group had a great time celebrating her achievements.

Dooyoung makes it an unlucky 13 (PhDs from our group) after a flawless defense on new classes of copper(I) charge-transfer photosensitizers. I had stars in my eyes watching this masterclass unfold.

Back-to-back J. Am. Chem. Soc. . Part 2 of Dooyoung's work on extending the lifetimes and photocatalytic reactivity of charge-transfer Cu NacNac-isocyanide photosensitizers is out. With Mike Rosko and Phil Castellano (TA) and Thomas Gray (DFT). pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Oh hey, it's September which means I no longer have any adjectives in my job title (for the first time in my life?). Grateful to the second-generation group members who were instrumental to this promotion. It might be time to update my headshot after 10 years...

Excited to kick off this search for our next inorganic colleague. If you do inorganic synthesis of any type and are looking for a TT job, we hope you’ll apply. Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the search or about being a synthetic inorganic chemist at UH.

The final chapter of Yennie Nguyen 's PhD is out in ACS Appl. Opt. Mat. Big contributions from postdoc Linh Dang, visiting student Marjolaine, and others. A new class of phosphorescent cyclometalated Pt carbene complexes, with OLED applications. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to Sungwon on her first J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper, revealing new insights to improve red phosphorescence quantum yields in cyclometalated platinum. She is on the market for a national lab or academic postdoc, and whoever hires her is getting a great one. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

One week before the priority deadline for our synthetic inorganic assistant professor search. Looking forward to reviewing applications from the next generation of stars in our field! Link below: uhs.taleo.net/careersection/…