Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2020, fewer than 6,200, or about 0.1%, of the world’s researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, have earned this exclusive distinction.

https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/

We are proud to be a part of this academia-industry collaboration, working on a high throughput design and synthesis of new materials for a range of applications: catalysis for water splitting and CO2 conversion, and LEDs.

Welcoming our fresh PhD student Milad, and a cohort of undergraduate researchers, Abhishek, Tony, Ihor, Usama, Akshay, Dave. Shadi is also returning to our group as a postdoc!

In collaboration with Prof. Makhsud Saidaminov from the University of Victoria we are starting a new NFRF project targeting the synthesis of new solution-processed semiconductors.

Our initial goal is to improve the stability of fully-inorganic Pb-based perovskites for applications in solar cells and X-ray detectors. The next milestone is discovering new Pb-free perovskite-like materials.

Welcoming a visiting PhD student, Pimsuda, who will lead this project!

Machine Learning Accelerates Discovery of Optimal Colloidal Quantum Dot Synthesis

In this work, we applied Bayesian optimization methods to facilitate the search in a multi-dimensional parameter space of quantum dot synthesis and achieved the optimal results in a smaller number of experimental trials compared to conventional methods (random search, grid search, or gradient descent).