Category Archives: News

The PRG’s latest work is now published online (print and page numbers for full reference to follow). “Aggregation kinetics of single-walled carbon nanotubes investigated using mechanically wrapped multinuclear complexes: probing the tube–tube repulsive barrier”, Anjail A. Ameen,  Andrea N. Giordano, … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Mr. Dylan Brokaw for receiving 2nd place best presentation at the 21013 SERMACS in Atlanta. Dylan won first place at the 2012 SERMACS after losing his belt. This year he lost his car key. I think we cracked … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Dr. Mike Forney on his recent Nano Letters publication “Prelithiation of Silicon–Carbon Nanotube Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries by Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP)” http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl401776d . If someone is going to generate electric energy then someone is going … Continue reading →

The PRG’s first Ph.D. student, Harsh Chaturvedi, has graduated his first MS student (Dr. Poler’s academic grandson).  The students MS Thesis has been published as a book “Optical effects in functionalized Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes” Scholar’s Press (2013-07-09) Functionalized single … Continue reading →

Maurice Hord, Andy Nguyen, and Mohamed Saeed were recognized with an honorable mention for the poster presentation “Photon Enhanced Aggregation” at the 2013 UNC Charlotte Undergraduate Research Conference.  Congratulations guys!

Dylan Brokaw won 1st place in chemsitry for his oral presentation “High throughput microwave synthesis and characterization of NiO nanoplates for supercapacitor devices” at the 2013 UNC Charlotte Undergraduate Research Conference.  He was also recognized with an honorable mention for … Continue reading →

Dylan Brokaw won the Outstanding Presentation award for the undergraduate Materials symposium at the 2012 SERMACS in Raleigh last week.  Way to represent!  Apparently going belt-less is an advantage.  Congratulations Dylan and great job to everyone in the PRG who … Continue reading →

Zak Ayesh just joined the PRG this week.  He is a sophomore Mechanical Engineering major at UNC Charlotte.  Please welcome him to the lab.

Omar Glover has joined the PRG this semester.  Omar is a second degree seeker from Chapel hill.  He will start by learning the ITC methods.  Welcome to the group Omar!

Congratulations to Shawn on earning his Masters of Science in Chemistry at UNC Charlotte.  Shawn has moved to Texas and is pursuing his Ph.D. at UT Arlington.  Make us proud Shawn!