We specialize in the synthesis of nanomaterials and study of their interactions with light waves. Our research focuses on the development of novel physical phenomena using our rationally-designed nanomaterials to enable new nano-optical, photonic, energy technologies.

Group News

December 2024

• Pushpender gives an oral presentation at the MRS National Fall Meeting

• Seokhyoung gives an invited presentation at the MRS National Fall Meeting.

November 2024

• The group had so much fun (and tacos) at the year-end holiday party!

October 2024

• Nathan and Kyeongdeuk’s collaborative article — “Biological Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics via Self-Aligned Nanoring Doublets: QED-SANDs” — is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society!

• The group had a blast at the ACS National Chemistry Day event at the Impression 5 Science Center!

September 2024

• Congratulations to Ajay for receiving #iteachmsu Educator Award for empowering young Spartan chemists!

• Kyeongdeuk and Shoaib’s collaborative article — “Temperature-Dependent Recombination Dynamics of Photocarriers in CsPbBr3 Microcrystals Revealed by Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy” — is published in Advanced Optical Materials!

August 2024

• Seokhyoung gives an invited talk at the Chemistry Symposium of the US-Korea Conference (UKC) in San Francisco.

• Seokhyoung gives a presentation at the ACS National Fall Meeting in Denver.

July 2024

• Congratulations to Anupam on his publication— “Ag Intercalation in Layered Cs3Bi2Br9 Perovskite for Enhanced Light Emission with Bound Interlayer Excitons”— in Journal of the American Chemical Society!

• The group had a fantastic time at our summer cookout party.

June 2024

• Seokhyoung gives a presentation at Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Unconventional Semiconductors and Their Applications.

• Pushpender and Kyeondgeuk present their research work at 2024 American Vacuum Society (AVS) Michigan Spring Symposium.

May 2024

• Congratulations to Ajay for passing the second-year oral exam!

April 2024

• The group had so much fun participating in STEAM Expo of MSU’s Science Festival! Check out the video.

• Congratulations Caitlin for passing her 2nd-year oral exam!

December 2023

• Seokhyoung gives an invited presentation in International Conference on Advanced Materials and Devices (ICAMD) 2023.

November 2023

• Seokhyoung hosts the 3rd annual year-end party.

• Our research on “Optical doping of halide perovskite nanowires” is funded by MSU Foundation’s Discretionary Funding Initiative (DFI) program.

October 2023

• Seokhyoung and Pushpender give presentations at Nanowire Week 2023.

July 2023

• Our undergraduate researcher, Nathan, departs to start his graduate research career after two and a half years in the lab. Best of luck to you, Nathan!

June 2023

• Pushpender gives an oral presentation at the ACS Central Regional Meeting.

• Seokhyoung’s collaborative work from UNC-Chapel Hill — “Optical Nonlinearity in Silicon Nanowires Enabled by Bound States in the Continuum” — is published in ACS Nano!

• Pushpender gives a poster presentation and wins second place for the best poster award at the 2023 American Vacuum Society (AVS) Michigan Chapter Spring Symposium!

• Seokhyoung receives Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from ORAU. Many thanks to the group members for making it happen! Read more about the award-winning research in a release article.

May 2023

• The group welcomes an REU student, Henry Thomas, from Iowa State University. Henry will study dielectric properties of various perovskite thin films over the summer.

• The Kim group has finally been relocated to the new research space after two and a half years of renovation!

April 2023

• Kyeongdeuk passes her oral exam. Congratulations!

• Seokhyoung gives a presentation at the MRS Spring meeting.

• Pushpender’s research article— “Morphology-Controlled Vapor-Phase Nanowire Growth with Ruddlesden–Popper Lead Bromide Perovskite”— is published in Chemistry of Materials. Congratulations!

• Kim group participates in STEM Expo of MSU Science Festival 2023. Many thanks to visitors and group members, especially Caitlin and Stevie for wonderful planning!

March 2023

• Congratulations to Pushpender for passing his second-year oral exam!

February 2023

• Seokhyoung’s collaborative work from UNC-Chapel Hill — “Water Splitting with Silicon p-i-n Superlattices Suspended in Solution”— is published in Nature!

January 2023

• We welcome two new graduate students to the group— Ajay and Caitlin!

• Congratulations to Nathan on his research article— “Insight into Refractive Index Modulation as Route to Enhanced Light Coupling in Semiconductor Nanowires''— published in Optics Letters!

December 2022

• Seokhyoung hosts an year-end party to celebrate the holidays!

November 2022

• Pushpender and Anupam present posters at the 2022 MRS National Fall Meeting.

October 2022

• Seokhyoung gives an invited Pioneer Symposia presentation in the Korean Physics Society Fall Meeting.

July 2022

• The group has participated in the NSF-REU program during this summer, and Yarielis López-Román from Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo performed her independent research on perovskite synthesis. Nice work, Yarielis!

June 2022

• Seokhyoung gives an invited talk to the Department of Chemistry at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology.

April 2022

• Seokhyoung gives an invited seminar talk to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University.

• Dr. Anupam Biswas joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

January 2022

• The group adds two new graduate students. Welcome Kyeongdeuk and Stevie!

• The group welcomes its first postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Muhammad Shoaib!

December 2021

• Seokhyoung gives a talk at Pacifichem 2021.

October 2021

• Nathan presents the group’s first poster at 2021 ACS Midland Virtual Fall Scientific Meeting.

September 2021

• Our first group publication — a review on colloidal nanocubes for optical metamaterials — is published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congrats Matt and Pushpender!

• A former undergraduate student joins the group as a new graduate student. Welcome Matt!

• Four new undergraduate members, Anh, Ishmael, Maggie and Max, join the group. Welcome everyone!

June 2021

• Seokhyoung gives invited talks at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Chungbuk National University, Kyung Hee University, and Inha University.

March 2021

• The group welcomes its first graduate student. Welcome Pushpender!

January 2021

• Six undergraduate students join the group as inaugural members. Welcome Matt, Brian, Cole, Kyle, Donovan, and Nathan!

• Seokhyoung joins the Spartans!