Tisdale Lab @ MIT

Aaron Goodman won the top award for “best overall presentation” at the annual meeting of the DOE-sponsored Energy Frontiers Research Center for Excitonics. Congratulations Aaron!

The Tisdale Lab was featured in a series of recent MIT News articles written by Denis Paiste of MIT’s Materials Processing Center. The articles include a feature on Prof. Tisdale, as well as graduate students Mark Weidman and Jolene Mork.

Congratulations to Aaron Goodman and Jolene Mork, who won 2^nd Prize and Honorable Mention, respectively, for their posters at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting held two weeks ago in Boston!

Aaron Goodman with poster, MRS Fall 2014.

Ferry & Aaron’s QD/MoS₂ energy transfer paper appeared on the Nano Letters “Most Read Articles” list for October, 2014! Read it here.

Mark’s advance in PbS QD synthesis was highlighted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials on their website. See the full story here. The original paper was published earlier this year in ACS Nano.

Will Tisdale is the recipient of a 2014 award from the Solomon Buchsbaum Research Fund. The $75,000 awards, administered by MIT’s Office of the Provost, are awarded annually to young faculty at MIT to support “innovative ideas and new research initiatives that cut across disciplinary lines.” The award will support the development of a novel microscopy technique for visualizing transport processes at the nanoscale.

Lisa Poulikakos won the Nature Publishing Group Poster Prize at QD2014 in Pisa, Italy, for her poster titled “Transition from Thermodynamic to Kinetic-Limited Excitonic Energy Migration in Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids.” Lisa is pictured below with Fabio Pulizzi, Chief Editor at Nature Nanotechnology. Her paper was published in J. Phys. Chem. C. Congratulations, Lisa!

Will is this year’s recipient of the Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The Institute-wide award is given annually to an MIT faculty member in recognition of “exceptional interest and ability in the instruction of undergraduates.” It is the only teaching award in which the nomination and selection of the recipients is done entirely by the students. Read the MIT News story about this award.

Aaron Goodman was awarded a 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship will support his research in surface nonlinear optical methods to probe ultrafast interfacial dynamics, and his public science education outreach activities at the MIT Museum. Congratulations Aaron on a well-deserved recognition!

The Tisdale Lab was awarded $150,000 in seed funding from the MIT Energy Initiative for our proposal “Quantum Confined Materials for Thermoelectrics”. From the MIT News website:

“Thermoelectric devices can convert waste heat from car engines, power plants, and other sources directly into electricity. The best thermoelectric materials incorporate performance-enhancing nanoscale features, but fabricating them generally requires expensive methods not cost-effective at scale. As an alternative, Assistant Professor William Tisdale of chemical engineering is evaluating the thermoelectric performance capabilities of colloidal quantum dots (QDs), nanoscale semiconductor crystals whose electronic structure and behavior are defined by particle size and shape. By using novel laboratory techniques to synthesize QD materials, Tisdale will examine how surface chemistry and crystal packing affect charge and heat transport in colloidal QD materials—an understanding that will make possible enhanced thermoelectric performance and the optimization of inexpensive solution-based processes for fabrication of large-area energy conversion devices.”