2023

April 2023: Julian Mintz was awarded the Stanley Shepherd Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. This award is given to a senior Physics graduate student who has excelled in teaching and who has contributed to the instructional mission of the Physics Department above and beyond their assigned TA duties. Congratulations!

April 2023: Katherine Thompson is selected to attend the 25th School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, which will be hosted over the summer at Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories. Congratulations!

March 2023: Prof. Terrones is named the new George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Head of the Department of Physics at Penn State, effective July 1. See Penn State news for details: https://www.psu.edu/news/eberly-college-science/story/mauricio-terrones-named-head-department-physics/. Big congratulations!

March 2023: Katherine‘s first-authored paper ‘Formation and Transformation of Cu2–xSe1–yTey Nanoparticles Synthesized by Tellurium Anion Exchange of Copper Selenide’ published on Inorganic Chemistry. Congratulations!

January 2023: Tianyi and Mingzu’s first-authored paper (equal contributions) ‘Spatial Control of Substitutional Dopants in Hexagonal Monolayer WS2: The Effect of Edge Termination’ published on Small. Congratulations!

January 2023: Da received the David C. Duncan Graduate Fellowship in Physics, the W. Donald Miller Graduate Fellowship, and the Downsbrough Graduate Fellowship in Physics. Congratulations!

2022

MRS Fall 2022: The Terrones group presented 3 posters by Alex, Da, and Na, an oral presentation by David, and a talk by Professor Terrones. Alex also received the second place award for Science as Art. Congratulations!

November 2022: Dr. Terrones received the highly cited researcher award for the sixth year in a row. Congratulations!

September 2022: The “Terrones Leones” placed 2nd overall in the Penn State Safety Olympics, and won the Trivia and Price is Right events. Congratulations!

June 2022: Congratulations to Mingzu Liu for successfully defending his thesis!

 

May 5th, 2022: Prof. Terrones named Evan Pugh University Professor, the highest honor that Penn State bestows on a faculty member. Congratulations!

2021

November 2021: Dr. Terrones received the highly cited researcher award for the fifth year in a row. Congratulations!

Aug 30th, 2021: Congratulations to Tomotaroh for successfully defending his thesis!

July 7th, 2021: Congratulations to Tianyi for successfully defending his thesis!

Feb 24, 2021: Congratulations to He Liu (Moses) for successfully defending his thesis!

January 7, 2021:

Flexible Supercapacitors: Ultralight Flexible Electrodes of Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Macrotube Sponges for High‐Performance Supercapacitors 

 

2020

December 7, 2020: 2D Materials Center Ready To Move To New Phase, Add Industry Partners

November 2020: Dr. Terrones received the highly cited researcher award for the fourth year in a row

August 10, 2020: Highly Sensitive Dopamine Detector Uses 2D Materials

July 29, 2020: New Advances In Superconductivity

March 10, 2020: Congratulations to Ethan Kahn for successfully defending his thesis!

January 29, 2020: Penn State Receives Five-Year $3.7 Million Grant To Study Virus Evolution

January 2020: Congratulations to Ana Laura Elias for starting her Assistant Professor position at Binghamton University!

2019

December 23, 2019: A Fast And Inexpensive Device To Capture And Identify Viruses

Nov 29, 2019: Dr. Terrones was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics for the third year in a row

Oct 27, 2019: Congratulations to Fu Zhang for successfully defending his thesis!

Oct 27, 2019: Congratulations to Christopher Rotella for successfully defending his thesis!
Feb 19, 2019: Congratulations to Yu Lei for successfully defending her thesis!

2018

Nov 27, 2018: Dr. Terrones was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics for the second year in a row

 

Oct 1, 2018 Congratulations to Bruno Carvalho Ricardo for receiving the Capes Award Thesis 2018  in Astronomy/Physics for his thesis “Raman Spectroscopy in MoS2-type Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides”!

July 27, 2018: Yifan has defended his Ph.D., and he will join Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Postdoc Research Associate. Congratulations!
July 25, 2018: Zhong has defended his Ph.D., and he will join University of Washington as a Research Associate (EFRC Fellow) in early August. Congratulations!
May 16, 2018: Haoyue has defended his Ph.D., and he will continue his postdoc research at Penn State. Congratulations!
Jan 22, 2018: Dr. Terrones was selected as a Distinguished Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Science & Engineering.
Jan 1, 2018: Dr. Terrones has been named Editor-in-Chief of Carbon (IF=6.337).

2017

Nov 20, 2017: Dr. Terrones was named a 2017 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
Oct 10, 2017 Penn State News: Dr. Terrones was elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society. See the citation here.
 September 19, 2017: Simin Feng has defended his Ph.D., and he will join Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute as a Postdoc Research Associate. Congratulations!
August 30, 2017 Penn State News:  Toward a smart graphene membrane to desalinate water. See the News and Views in Nature Nanotechnology here. See the original publication in Nature Nanotechnology here.

 

July 5, 2017: Archi has defended her Ph.D., and she will join Intel in early November. Congratulations!
July 5, 2017 Penn State News: 2D layered devices can self-assemble with precision
June 1, 2017 Penn State News: Low cost, scalable water-splitting fuels the future hydrogen economy

 

05/11/2017: Penn State Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials (2DLM) hosted its 5th annual “Graphene and Beyond” workshop!
04/28/2017 Penn State Materials Research Institute: Fast, non-destructive test for two-dimensional materials. See the publication here.
Penn State MRI: An Optical Nondestructive Method to Evaluate Defects in 2D Systems

2016

11/17/2016 Tsinghua University News Center: Ultrasensitive Acoustic Pressure Sensors Based on Atomic Thin Films. See the publication here.
10/27/2016: ScienceDaily Controlling the properties of matter in two-dimensional crystals. See the publication here. 
10/11/2016: Amber McCreary was awarded a postdoc fellowship by NIST. Congratulations Amber!
10/07/2016: Penn State News: New, carbon-nanotube tool for ultra-sensitive virus detection and identification
10/06/2016: Dr. Yin-Ting Yeh won the 2015-2016 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award! Congratulations Yin-Ting!
07/22/2016: Ultrasensitive sensor using N-doped graphene: a work by Simin Feng et al is published in Science Advances! See also NEWS from Penn State Materials Research Institute.

July 2016:  The Carbon 2016 conference chaired by Prof. Radovic and Prof. Terrones was a success!  The Terrones group along with several others here at Penn State organized the Carbon Conference for 2016 which consisted of 5 plenary lectures, 308 oral presentations, and 400+ posters!

5/17/2016: Congratulations to Dr. Victor Carozo on becoming an Assistant Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro!
05/11/2016: Penn State Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials (2DLM) hosted its 4th annual “Graphene and Beyond” workshop!
2016: Congratulations to Dr. Mauricio Terrones on being honored with the Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in the Physical Sciences!
4/20/2016: Congratulations to Lakshmy P. Rajukumar on receiving a Process TD Engineer offer at Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon! 
02/05/2016: Congratulations to Brian Cooper on successfully defending his PhD thesis!

2015

11/9/2015: Congratulations to Amber McCreary and Zhong Lin on being awarded the W. Donald Miller Graduate Fellowship!

2015: Dr. Mauricio Terrones is elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Penn State News, 8/7/2015: NSF funds Industry/University Center for Atomically Thin Coatings

2015: Dr. Mauricio Terrones has been appointed Jubilee Professorship, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)!

Penn State News, 07/20/2015: 2d materials researchers aim beyond graphene

2015: Congratulations to Dr. Humberto R. Gutierrez on becoming an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida!

Nature Publishing Group: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS-2015. The 15th most cited article in the journal over the last 2 years. Scientific Reports has published over 7,000 papers in this period, and so a position in the top 100 most cited articles is an extraordinary achievement. Novel hetero-layered materials with tunable direct band gaps by sandwiching different metal disulfides and diselenides. H. Terrones, F. López-Urías, M. Terrones. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 3, 1549 (2013).

05/11/2015: Penn State Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials (2DLM) hosted its 3rd annual “Graphene and Beyond” workshop! The topics discussed in the workshop are published as a review article in ACS Nano.

Pre-2015

Penn State News, 10/1/2014: NSF funds three Penn State teams to study 2D materials

2014: Congratulations to Zhong Lin on being awarded the David C. Duncan Graduate Fellowship!

Phys. Org, 09/29/2014: pixel engineered electronics have growth potential

Penn State News, 09/24/2014: 2D materials crystalline defects key to new properties

Penn State Science, 09/07/2014: Rethinking the basic science of graphene synthesis

Penn State News, 06/20/2014: Super stretchable yarn is made of graphene

Science Daily & Penn State Materials Research Institute, 04/16/2014: Making new materials an atomic layer at a time

Institute of Physics, 04/03/2014: Researchers probe the next generation of 2D materials

2013: Congratulations to Simin Feng and Zhong Lin on being awarded the David C. Duncan Graduate Fellowship!

02/2013: Congratulations to Dr. Ruitao Lv on becoming an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, China!

Penn State Science, 02/05/2013: Light-emitting triangles may have applications in optical technology

Penn State News, 05/30/2012: Oil and Water

2012: Dr. Mauricio Terrones elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science!

Penn State News, 04/16/2012: Oil spill clean may be made easier by carbonnanotube technology

2011: Congratulations to Simin Feng on being awarded the David H. Rank Memorial Physics Award!