Dec 2022 – Congrats to Tim and Daniel for passing their Comps!
Dec 2022 – Welcome Jo and Zihao!
Oct 2022 – Another great time at Josh’s place carving up pumpkins, eating fantastic food, and enjoying time with the academic family!
May 2022 – Congrats to Azim! He’s off to Intel!
Oct. 2021: Happy Halloween!
Sept 2021: Congrats to “The 2Dimensionals” for winning the Safety Olympics once again!!! Enjoy the pics!
Sept 2021: Congrats to Azim for earning his PhD!!
Aug 2021: Congrats to Max for earning his PhD!!!
June 2021: Congrats to Nick for earning his PhD!!!!
(Beers at Otto’s to Celebrate Dr. Simonson!)
May 2021: Vaccibration!!! Most in the group are fully vaxed… and we celebrated at Josh’s place! Total fun!
March 2021: Congrats to Rinu, Alex, Cindy, Xianqing, and Azim for awards at the 2021 MatSE (Virtual) Banquet!
- Rinu – won 2nd place in the MVC visual category (see below)
- Alex – won the MatSE Safety Award for his awesome work in research safety this year.
- Azim – won the Newnham Research Award for his work on synthesis and doping of WSe2.
- Xianqing and Cindy – won the Grad poster award for their work on MoTe2.
Rinu’s tilted SEM image of gold on graphene. 2nd place at MVC2021!!
Nov 2020: Congrats to Alex for a great (virtual) talk at MRS!!!
July 2020: Robinson is promoted to Full Professor! Thanks to all the students for making this possible. It would not have happened without your hard work!!
April 2020: Congrats to Natalie and Shruti for successfully defending their PhDs!!!
Jan 2020: Congrats to Azim & Nick for surviving their comprehensive exams. It was tough, but they are very robust.
Oct 2019: A small gathering of halloweenies! Had a lot of fun with some of the group members… Tim got the prize for best costume! Robinson was a close second.
Sept 2019: Congrats to Max and Steph for something much more important than work or school!!! Welcome Baby Cora!
(photo a few months after Cora’s birth)
Sept 2019: Congrats to Tim, Shruti, Alex, and Riccardo for winning the 2019 Safety Olympics!!!
August 2019: Congrats to Brian Bersch for defending his PhD!
June 2019: Congrats to Rui Zhao for defending her PhD! Now she’s off to NIST!
April 2019:Congrats to Riccardo and Tim for getting the NSF Fellowship!!!
Mar 2019: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Ana De La Fuente Duran, a self-described “science nerd” who was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and grew up in Pittsburgh, has long hoped to follow her love for science all the way to graduate school. Read more…
Jan 2019: Congrats to Natalie and Shruti for pulling together a great article on 2D Electronic Materials! Bravo! [2D Materials, 6, 2, 22001]
Jan 2019: Congrats to Ana for establishing “Women in Materials Science” aimed at promoting the advancement of women in STEM that focus on materials science engineering, and research!
Jan 2019: Congrats to Donna for defending her PhD! Now’s She’s Dr. Donna D. Deng! Way to go!
December 2018: Congrats to Yu-Chuan for having his thesis “Properties of Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials and Heterostructures” being chosen for the Springer Theses Award!! It’s now a book!
November 2018: Congrats to Ned for winning silver at the Fall 2018 MRS Graduate Student Competition!The website is here: https://www.mrs.org/gsa-past
October 2018: Congrats to Ned for winning the Rustum and Della Roy Award for Innovative material research!!! Way to go Ned – you totally deserve it!
October 2018: Congrats to Kehao (Ned) Zhang for successfully defending his PhD, not he’ll be off to Micron for his next adventure!!
Sept 2018: Another great Safety Olympics! Congrats to Ned for being the fastest “Speed Gowner”, putting on a cleanroom suit in only 51.88 seconds… without any mistakes!
Aug 2018: Welcome Alex, Katy, and Riccardo! Looking forward to great research, conversations, and fun over the next few years!
May 2018: Congrats to Yu-Chuan for his Commencement! He’s off to doing great things!
May 2018: Another Potluck at the Robinson household! Lots of great food and fun!
April 2018: Congrats to Ned, Shruti, Natalie, Brian, and Rui for winning awards at the Annual PSU MatSE Awards Banquet! Well done gang!
Jan 2018: The Robinson Group goes Skiing! Check out a few pictures from the evening.
Jan 2018: Congrats to Shruti and Natalie for winning the “Young Scientists Award” at the 45th annual PCSI conference!
Sept 2017: Chengye Dong joins the group to focus on graphene synthesis and biosensing! Welcome!
Sept 2017: Congrats to Yu-Chuan for successfully defending his PhD!!!!
Sept 2017: The Group had a great gathering at Prof. Robinson’s (new) house. Lots of dirt still around!
June 2017: Azim joins the group to focus on doping of 2D materials! Welcome!
May 2017: Our 5th annual 2D Workshop was another HUGE success!! We had over 160 participants during the workshop, with lots of great discussions.
May 2017: Congrats to Natalie for being awarded an Intel/SRC Fellowship as part of the SRC Graduate Fellowship Program!!!
April 2017: Check out our press release on “2D Stenciling”!
March 2017: Congrats to Roger for defending his master’s degree! He’ll soon be working for Prof. Michael Lanagan on his PhD!
December 2016: CONGRATS TO GANESH!!! He successfully defended his PhD!!
November 2016: Had a great trip to Fall MRS in Boston! Congrats to Yu-Chuan (silver) and Zak (Gold) for winning the Fall 2016 MRS Student Award!
November 2016: The local PBS station (WPSU) comes to the Robinson lab to learn about 2D materials!
November 2016: Another successful ATOMIC review meeting! Nick and Ned did a great job representing the group.
October 2016: The Group had a great gathering at Prof. Robinson’s house
September 2016: Once again, the Materials Safety Olympics was a great success! Robinson Group got to “hang” with the Nittany Lion!
June 2016: Congrats to Zak for winning the IUCr Young Scientist Award for his 2D-GaN work! He’ll present his work in Japan in the Fall!
May 2016: Our 2D Workshop was a HUGE success!! We had over 160 participants during the workshop, with lots of great discussions.
April 2016: Rafael Vila (Senior, MatSE) joins Prof. Akira Nakajima’s group at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan for the PSU-MatSE International Internship in Materials.
April 2016: Congrats to Ganesh for winning 1st place in the Penn State College of Engineering Research Symposium “Art in Science” Competition!
March 2016: Penn State Announces the new 2D Crystal Consortium! A $17.8M dollar NSF facility to grow 2D Materials!!!
January 2016: Congrats to ATOMIC for their inaugural meeting at Rice University! It was a great success, and we now have 7 new projects underway!
January 2016: Read Prof. Robinson PERSPECTIVE on 2D materials in ACS Nano
October 2015: Congrats to Chia Hui Lee for successfully defending her M.S. Thesis!
September 2015: Congrats to Matt Hollander for successfully defending his PhD Thesis!
July 2015: 2D materials researchers aim ‘beyond graphene’
July 2015: NSF I/UCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings established at Penn State, in collaboration with Rice University
