Group News
July 2026
The group has received a new research grant from the National Science Foundation! This grant will fund our research on enhanced spin doping in layered halide perovskites. Many thanks to all the group members for their tremendous contributions
June 2026
Seokhyoung gives a series of invited talks at Kunsan National University, Chungbuk National University, and Ewha Womans University in Korea.
May 2026
We welcome our new REU student Tim!
Seokhyoung gives an invited seminar talk in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University.
April 2026
Congratulations to Kyeongdeuk for being selected as a recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award!
Congrats to our undergraduate researcher, Madison, who received the Thomas Alan Deline Endowed Scholarship, the Walter R. and Margaret W. Yates Memorial Scholarship, and the Bradford-Adams Endowed Scholarship for Chemistry.
March 2026
Seokhyoung is named a 2025 Rising Star in Materials Science by ACS Materials Au.
Seokhyoung gives an invited seminar talk in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at University of Notre Dame.
February 2026
Caitlin’s article — “Hands-on Lithography for PreK-5 Students: Accessible Art Activity to Learn Semiconductor Nanofabrication” — is published in ACS Journal of Chemical Education.
Seokhyoung gives two invited seminar talks in the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University and University of Toledo.
January 2026
Seokhyoung gives two invited seminar talks in Department of Chemistry at Oakland University and multi-institutional InnoCORE project group in Korea.
December 2025
Pushpender, Ajay, and Caitlin’s review article — “Emerging Vapor-Phase Growth Methods for Halide Perovskite Thin Films and Nanostructures” — is published in ACS Materials Au.
Congratulations to Deepak for passing his second-year oral exam!
We welcome a new graduate student, Griffin, to the group!
Kyeongdeuk gives an oral presentation at the MRS National Fall Meeting.
November 2025
The group enjoys a taco bar at our annual year-end party!
Congrats to Kyeongdeuk for receiving the Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
Seokhyoung gives an invited presentation at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) annual meeting.
October 2025
Kyeongdeuk’s research article — “Dynamic Behavior of Bound Interlayer Excitons in Interlayer-Doped Cs3Bi2Br9 Vacancy-Ordered Perovskite” is published in ACS Nano. Congrats!
September 2025
Madison, an undergraduate researcher in our lab, is awarded the Leinweber STEM Scholarship! Congrats Madison!
The group welcomes our visiting scholar, Dr. Symbat Naurzkulova!
July 2025
The group had a great time at the summer picnic with homemade guacamole and Chef Ajay’s chicken!
Charlie concludes his REU program by sharing his research at MidSURE!
Congratulations to Pushpender and Kyeongdeuk for their research article — “Deterministic Structural Distortion in Mn²⁺-doped Layered Hybrid Lead Bromide Perovskite Single Crystals” — published in ACS Nano!
June 2025
Seokhyoung organizes a Telluride Workshop on “Halide Perovskites: From Fundamentals to Devices” and gives a presentation.
Seokhyoung gives a presentation at the AVS Michigan Chapter Spring Symposium.
May 2025
Seokhyoung joins an Early Career Board of ACS Applied Optical Materials!
April 2025
The group had a great time taking part in the STEAM Expo of MSU’s Science Festival for the third year in a row!
Congratulations to Ajay, Caitlin, and Deepak for being selected as recipients of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award!
January 2025
Ajay’s research paper — “Degeneracy-Broken Toroidal Chain Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum in Photonic Metawires” — is published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
We welcome a new graduate student, Sachira, to the group!
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
We welcome a new graduate student, Deepak, to the group!
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
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. Congrats!
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!