April 24, 2024: Barry presented a talk at the Stauffer Symposium at USC.
April 23, 2024: Two group members were honored at the Annual Departmental Stauffer Banquet. Qingpei Wan was honored with the G. K. Surya Prakash Award for Excellence in Hydrocarbon Chemistry and Grace Castillo received an Excellence in Graduate Research Award. Congratulations to Qingpei and Grace!
March 15, 2024: Barry, Tanin, and our former summer student Luis presented a talk at Los Angeles Pierce College discussing summer internship opportunities at USC.
October 19, 2023: Barry presented an invited seminar in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at Rice University.
October 13, 2023: Barry presented an invited seminar in the Chemistry Department at the University of Kentucky.
August 17-18, 2023: Barry and Megan Fieser taught a micro-seminar on Plastics Sustainability for freshman during USC Welcome Week.
July 5-11, 2023: Barry and Steve participated in the NIST Summer Workshop for undergraduate students at USC and on Catalina Island.
June 18, 2023: Barry presented an invited talk at the Fpi15 Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina.
May 1, 2023: Alexander successfully defended his dissertation and we celebrated it over dinner. Congratulations Dr. Schmitt!
March 29, 2023: Congratulations to Steven Sheppard for receiving Honorable Mention for his application to the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
March 23, 2023: Congratulations to Alexander Schmitt for winning an Excellence in Gradaute Student Research Award at the Annual Stauffer Banquet in the Chemistry Department.
January 12, 2023: Barry presented a talk in the Chemistry Department at UNC Chapel Hill.
January 2023: We welcome Steven Sheppard and Dhairya Patel as new first year graduate students in our group!
December 9, 2022: Negar successfully defended her dissertation and we celebrated it over lunch. Congratulations Dr. Kazerouni!
September 6, 2022: Pratyusha successfuly defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Das!
August 24, 2022: Barry presented an invited talk at the ACS National Meeting in Chicago in the syomposium on Functional Conjugated Polymers.
May 9, 2022: Barry presetned a talk at the MRS Spring National Meeting in Honolulu. The talk was highlighted in the MRS “Meeting Scene”: https://materials.typepad.com/mrs_meeting_scene/2022/05/symposium-eq03next-generation-organic-semiconductorsmaterials-fundamentals-and-applications.html
March 3, 2022: Congratulations to Pratyusha for winning an Excellence in Gradaute Student Research Award at the Annual Stauffer Banquet in the Chemistry Department.
February 18, 2022: Barry presented a Highlands in Chemistry Seminar at Virginia Tech.
February 8, 2022: Congratulations to Liwei for successfully defending his dissertation. Congratulations to Dr. Ye!
January 11, 2022: We welcome Prof. Rafael Verduzco (https://verduzcolab.blogs.rice.edu) who will be spending his sabbatical with us. Welcome Rafael!
November 11, 2021: Sanket succesfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Samal!
May 18, 2021: Barry presented an invited talk (virtual) at the MACRO 2020+ conference (Jeju, South Korea).
April 15, 2021: Barry presented an invited talk (virtual) at the Spring ACS National Meeting.
December 14, 2020: We are happy to welcome Tanin Hooshmand as a new first year graduate student in our group. Welcome Tanin!
December 1, 2020: Barry presented a talk (virtual) in the Chemistry Department at Kennesaw State University.
September 24, 2020: Barry presented a seminar (virtual) in the Chemistry Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
July 7, 2020: Congratulations for Pratyusha Das for passing her qualifying exam.
July 1, 2020: Congratulations to Alexander Schmitt for passing his qualifying exam.
June 30, 2020: Congratulations to Negar Kazerouni for passing her qualifying exam.
May 18, 2020: Congratulations to Liwei Ye for passing his qualifying exam.
May 13, 2020: Congratulations to Robert Pankow on the occasion of his graduation (PhD) from USC. We wish Robert the best as he begins his postdoc this summer at Northwestern University with Prof. Tobin Marks.
May 7, 2020: Congratulations to Robert Pankow for receiving the G. K. Surya Prakash Award in recognition of outstanding work in the areas of hydrocarbon and energy research in the USC Department of Chemistry.
May 7, 2020: Congratulations to Mami Horikawa for receiving the Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry sponosred by the ACS. We wish Mami the best as she beigns her PhD studies in the Chemistry Department at the University of Michigan in Fall 2020.
April 7, 2020: Congratulations to Alexander Schmitt for receiving the 2020 Wrigley Institute Sonosky Summer Fellowship.
March 31, 2020: Congratulations to Robert for being selected to the Materials Horizons Community Board.
March 30, 2020: Congratulations to Robert (now Dr. Pankow) for successfully defending his dissertation.
March 23, 2020: Congratulations to Sanket for receiving the Stauffer Endowed Fellowship from the USC Graduate School for the 2020-2021 Academic Year.
December 18, 2019: Barry is promoted to Full Professor.
December 10, 2019: Barry presented an invited talk at the Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC16) in Singapore.
Septemeber 12, 2019: Congratulations to Mami for receiving the Fall 2019 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
August 27, 2019: Robert presented a talk on DArP at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.
August 13, 2019: Barry presented an invited talk at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference in San Diego.
July 26, 2019: We spent the day in Rancho Palos Verdes with lunch at Terranea, hikes along the coast, and hanging out near Point Vicente Lighthouse (pictures).
June 1, 2019: Our NSF Grant (Chemistry, MSN, under Award number CHE-1904650: “Advancing the Performance and Capabilities of Direct Arylation Polymerization (DArP)”) is funded.
April 22-26, 2019: Barry, Robert, and Sanket attend the 2019 Spring MRS Meeting in Phoenix. Barry organized the symposium “Frontiers in Organic Photovoltaics” and Robert and Sanket presented Posters.
April 10, 2019: Barry presented an Invited Talk at Carnegie Mellon University.
January 2019: Mami Horikawa has received the Morrisroe Family Chemistry Undergraduate Research Fellowship for 2019.
Fall 2018: Barry and his collaborators Prof. Ashley Karlin and Prof. Atia Satar are named Dornsife Science Transformation Fellows for 2018-2020 for their work on Write-to-Learn Pedagogies in Organic Chemistry.
August 24, 2018: Our paper “Copper Catalyzed Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers using Direct Arylation Polymerization” has been highlighted as the best paper in Polymer Chemistry in August 2018.
July 9, 2018: Barry presented an invited talk at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
July 2, 2018: Barry presented an invited talk at the International Conference on the Science and Tehnology of Synthetic Metals (ICSM) in Busan, Korea.
June 29, 2018: Barry presented an invited talk at Hong Kong Polytechnic Univerisity in Hong Kong.
June 27, 2018: Barry presented and invited talk at Peking University Shenzhen Gradaute School in Shenzhen, China.
June 25, 2018: Barry Presented an invited talk at South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhu, China.
May 15, 2018: Our NSF proposal “Elucidating Physcial and Electronic Interactions in Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells” has been funded through the CBET Energy for Sustainability Program.
April 12, 2018: Congratulations to Robert for winning an Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award at the Annual Stauffer Banquet.
April 2018: Betsy’s potentiostat work and participation in the Joint Undertaking for an African Materials Institute (JUAMI) was highlighted in USC News and Dornsife News.
February 6, 2018: Barry presented a talk in the Chemistry Department at Purdue University.
December 2017: Betsy presented a talk at the African MRS in Botswana.
December 2017: Barry presented a talk at the Macromex 2017 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
December, 2017: We welcome three new graduate students: Liwei Ye, Pratyusha Das, and Negar Kazerouni to the group.
October, 2017: Congratulations to Seyma for successfully defending her PhD thesis.
September 4, 2017: Barry presented a talk at i-MEET at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
August 31, 2017: Barry presented a talk at the European Conference on Molecular Electronics in Dresden, Germany.
July, 2017: Congratulations to Nemal for successfully defending his PhD thesis.
March, 2017: Congratulations to Nemal for winning the G. K. Surya Prakash award for excellence in hydrocarbon research.
March, 2017: Congratulations to Robert for passing his Qualifying Exam.
December, 2016: We welcome two new graduate students, Sanket Samal and Qingpei Wan, and two undergraduate students, John Luke McConn and Alejandro Duran, to the group.
December, 2016: Seyma presented a poster at the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston.
October-November, 2016: Nemal visited our collaborators at DTU in Denmark to study DArP and flow polymerization.
June 21, 2016: Congratulations to Jenna for successfully defending her PhD thesis.
May-June, 2016: Betsy went to Arusha, Tanzania as part of the NSF-funded JUAMI 2016: Materials for Sustainable Energy summer school.
May 12, 2016: Barry presented a talk at Risoe-DTU in Roskilde, Denmark as part of the eGOPV conference.
May 9, 2016: Our NSF Grant “Expanding the Scope and Enabling Potential of Direct Arylation Polymerization (DArP)” is funded by the Division of Chemistry (MSN).
May 9, 2016: Barry presented a talk at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany.
May 3, 2016: Barry presented a talk at Universite de Versailles San-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Versailles, France.
May 2, 2016: Barry presented a second talk at ENS Cachan.
April 27, 2016: Barry prestented a talk at ENS Cachan.
April 26, 2016: Barry presented a talk at Universite Paris-Sud in Orsay, France.
April 20, 2016: Barry presented a talk at Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France.
April 18 – May 6: Barry is a visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Cachan, France.
April 4, 2016: Congratulations to Betsy for receiving the Sonosky Summer Fellowship with the USC Wrigley Institute.
March 30, 2016: Barry presented a talk at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey.
March 29, 2016: Barry presented a talk at Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey.
March 25, 2016: Barry presented a talk at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
March 24, 2016: Barry presented a talk a Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey.
March 15, 2016: Barry presented an invited talk in the PMSE division at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.
March 13, 2016: Barry presented an invited talk in the Energy and Fuels Division at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.
March 9, 2016: Congratulations to Sangtaik for succesfully defending his PhD thesis.
February 2, 2016: Barry presnted an invited talk at the MROP 2016 at UCSB.
January, 2016: Congratulations to Betsy for passing her qualifying exam.
December, 2015: We welcome a new graduate student, Robert Pankow, and undergraduate student, Christopher Jurich, to the group.
December 2015: Jenna presented a poster at the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston.
November 18th 2015: Barry presented an invited talk at the Nanotechnology for Defense Conference (NT4D) in City of Industry, CA.
November 17th 2015: Barry presented an invtited talk at UCSB.
October 14th 2015: Barry presented an invited talk at the Electrochemical Society Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
May 14th 2015: Congratulations to Bing for completing the hooding ceremony for her PhD.
April 16th 2015: Congratulations to Jenna for winning an Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award at the Annual Stauffer Banquet.
March 5th 2015: Barry is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.
March 5th 2015: Bing successfully defends her PhD thesis.
January, 2015: Congratulations to Seyma for passing her qualifying exam.
December, 2014: Congratulations to Nemal for passing his qualifying exam.
November 21st 2014: Barry presented an invited talk in the College of Engineering at Seoul National University in South Korea.
November 20th 2014: Barry presented an invited talk at the EEWS International Workshop on Organic Photovolotaics at KAIST in South Korea.
November 19th 2014: Barry presented an invited talk in the Department of Chemical Engineering at KAIST in South Korea.
November 18th 2014: Barry presented an invited talk at the ENGE conference on Jeju Island, South Korea.
October 27th 2014: Barry presented an invited talk at KAUST (Saudi Arabia) at the Applied Functional Materials Workshop.
September 1st 2014: Congratulations to Andrey for his new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University with Prof. Robert Waymouth in the Department of Chemistry.
August 20th 2014: Barry presents and invited talk at the SPIE (Organic Photovoltaics XV) in San Diego.
August 13th 2014: Barry presents and invited talk at the XPV conference in Telluriude, CO.
July 15th 2014: Our NSF Grant, “Polymer-Based Ternary Blends,” was awarded (CBET-1436875) through the Energy for Sustainability Program in CBET.
May 21st 2014: Congratualtions to Andrey for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation.
May 15th 2014: Congratulations to Andrey for completing the hooding ceremony for his PhD.
April 24th 2014: Congratulations to Andrey for winning the G. K. Surya Prakash award for excellence in hydrocarbon research.
April 24th 2014: Congratulations to Alia for winning the Jay Struckhoff Graduate Student Award.
April 24th 2014: Congratulations to Nemal for winning the departmental award for excellence in teaching for Orgnaic Chemistry.
Aprill 21st 2014: Barry gave a talk at the Spring MRS Meeting in San Francisco.
Aprill 14th 2014: Barry gave a talk in the Chemistry Department at UCLA.
April 8th 2014: Barry gave a talk at the BASF Scouting Workshop in San Francisco, representing the Department of Chemitry.
April 1st 2014: Our manuscript “Random Poly(3-hexylthiophene-co-3-cyanothiophene) Copolymers via Direct Arylation Polymerization for Organic Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage” was published in ACS Macro Letters.
March 14th 2014:Our collaborative paper “Quantifying Charge Recombination in Solar Cells based on Donor-Acceptor P3HT Analogs ” with Steve Bradforth’s group was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
January 6th 2014: Congratulations to Petr for his new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University with Prof. Lynn Loo in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
January 4th 2014: Our paper “Random Poly(3-hexylthiophene-co-3-cyanothiophene) Copolymers with High Open-Circuit Voltage in Organic Solar Cells” is published in J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem.
December 2013: We welcome first year graduate student Betsy Melenbrink and undergraduate George Andrews into our group.
November 12th 2013: Former group member, Brian Rodysill, is featured in a USC Dornsife Interview.
November 5th 2013: Barry presented a talk on direct arylation polymerization at Georgia Tech.
November 4th 2013: Barry presented a talk on our ternary blend and semi-random work at Georgia Tech.
October 29th 2013: Barry presented a talk at the Technical University of Denmark.
October 21st 2013: Barry presented a talk at the University of Washington.
September 19th 2013: Congratulations to Jenna for passing her qualifying exam.
September 2013: Our paper “Optimization and Simplification of Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells through Polymer and and Active Layer Design” in Polymer, Volume 54 – Issue 20, has been featured on the cover.
September 4th 2013: Our paper in collaboration with Robert Street (PARC), “Electrical Characterization of Organic Solar Cell Contact Degradation Resulting from Ambient Exposure,”has been publised in Organic Electronics.
August 6th 2013: Alejandra defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations.
July 20th: Our Feature Aricle “Optimization and Simplification of Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells through Polymer and and Active Layer Design” has been accepted for pubication in Polymer.
July 19th: Our paper in collaboration with Richard Brutchey (University of Southern California), “Novel Semi-Random and Alternating Copolymer Hybrid Solar Cells Utilizing CdSe Multipods as Versatile Acceptors” has been accepted in Chemical Communications.
July 18th: Our paper “Influence of selenophene on the properties of semi-random polymers and their blends with PC61BM” has been accepted for publication in Nanotechnology.
July 17-19th: Barry attends the EFRC PI Meeting in Washington, DC and presents a poster.
July 12th 2013: Our paper “Influences of Beta-linkages on Morphology and Performance of DArP P3HT-PC61BM Solar Cells” has been accepted for publication in Nanotechnology.
July 2nd 2013: We had a group BBQ at Griffith Park.
June 21st 2013: Our paper, in collaboration with Alexander V Benderskii (University of Southern California), “Annealing Induced Changes in the Molecular Orientation of Poly-3-hexylthiophene at Buried Interfaces” has been accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.
June 20th 2013: Peter defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Peter Khlyabich, the second Ph.D. graduate from our group (picture).
May 16th 2013: Congratulations to Beate and Petr, the first group members to complete the PhD hooding ceremony (picture).
May 13th 2013: Congtratulations to Sangtaik for passing his qualifying exam.
May 2nd and 3rd: Barry presented talks at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota.
April 24th 2013: Barry presented a talk at Columbia University.
April 22nd 2013: Congratulations to Jenna for receiving an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of Chemistry.
April 17th 2013: Barry presented a talk at the University of California Santa Barbara.
April 3rd 2013: Barry presented a talk at the MRS meeting in San Francisco.
March 12th 2013: Our paper, in collaboration with Joe C. Campbell (University of Virginia), “Influence of Exciton Diffusion and Charge-Transfer State Dissociation Efficiency on the Short-Circuit Current Densities in Semi-Random Donor/Acceptor Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells” has been accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.
March 1st 2013: Barry presented a talk in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University.
February 25th 2013: Our paper “Optimization of Direct Arylation Polymerization (DArP) Conditions for the Synthesis of P3HT” has been accepted in J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem.
February 13th 2013: Our Communication “Origin of the Tunable Open Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells” (JACS. 2013, 135, 986-989.) was featured in the JACS Spotlight (JACS. 2013, 135, 2011-2012.)
February 11th 2013: Barry presented a talk at the University of Colorado.
February 8th 2013: Barry presented a talk at the Colorado School of Mines.
February 7th 2013: Barry presented a talk at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
January 25th 2013: Barry presented a talk at the University of Toronto.
January 2013: Andrey presented a poster at the Gordon Conference on Macromolecular Materials.
January 2013: Congratulations to Joahanna for receiving the Spring 2013 WiSE Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
December 2012: Our Communication “Origin of the Tunable Open Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells” has been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
December 2012: We welcome first year graduate students Seyma Ekiz and Nemal Gobalasingham into our group.
December 7th 2012: We celebrate the Holiday season at our group party (pictures).
November 2012: Our communication “Semi-Random Two-Acceptor Polymer: Elucidating Electronic Trends Through Multiple Acceptor Combinations” has been accepted in Macromol. Chem. Phys.
November 28th 2012: Congratulations to Alia for passing her qualifying exam.
November 13th 2012: Barry presented a talk at the University of Redlands.
November 12th 2012: Congratulations to Bing for passing her qualifying exam.
November 5th 2012: Beate defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Beate Burkhart, the first Ph.D. graduate from our group (picture).
August 19th 2012: Barry presented an invited talk at the ACS meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
June 27th 2012: Barry presented an invited talk at the IUPAC World Polymer Congress in Blacksburg, VA.
May 29th 2012: Beate gave a talk at the Danish Technical University – Energy Conversion (Denmark).
May 2012: Our communication “Compositional Dependence of the Open-Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Based on Two Donor Polymers” has been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (just accepted manuscript).
May 2012: Our publication “Semi-Random P3HT Analogues via Direct Arylation Polymerization” has been accepted in J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem.
May 2012: Our publication “Influence of the Acceptor Composition on Physical Properties and Solar Cell Performance in Semi-Random Two-Acceptor Copolymers” has been accepted in ACS Macro Lett.
April 2012: Congratulations to Joahanna for receiving the Summer 2012 Rose Hills Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
April 12th, 2012: Congratulations to Petr for winning the Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research Award in the Chemistry Department.
April 12th, 2012: Congratulations to Beate for winning the 2012 Kenneth Nobutoshi Wachi Award for Excellence in Research and Service in the Department of Chemistry.
April 12th, 2012: Congratulations to Alia for winning an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of Chemistry.
April 10-12th, 2012: Barry, Beate and Petr attended the MRS National Meeting in San Francisco with Barry giving a talk and Beate and Petr presenting posters.
April 2012: Our publication “Influence of the Ethylhexyl Side-Chain Content on the Open-Circuit Voltage in rr-Poly(3-hexylthiophene-co-3-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophene) Copolymers” has been accepted in Macromolecules.
March 2012: Congratulations to Beate for receiving the 2012-2013 WISE Merit Fellowship for Doctoral Students.
March 2012: Our publication “Solar cells based on semi-random P3HT analogues containing dithienopyrrole: influence of incorporating a strong donor” has been published in J. Photon. Energy.
December 20th, 2011: Congratulations to Joahanna for receiving the 2012 WISE Undergraduate Research Grant for Spring 2012.
December 9th, 2011: Group Christmas Party (pictures)
December 2011: We welcome Jenna Howard in the group (first year graduate student in the Chemistry Department).
December 2011: Our publication “Solar Cells Based on Semi-Random P3HT Analogues Containing Dithienopyrrole: Influence of Incorporating a Strong Donor” has been accepted in J. Photon. Energy.
November 2011: Andrey passes his Qualifying Exam.
October 2011: Barry presented an invited talk at the Global Organic Photovoltaics Conference (GOPV) in Hangzhou China.
September 2011: Congratulations to Brian for receiving the “Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Fall 2011”.
September 2011: We welcome Joahanna MacAranas and Brian R. Rodysill in our group as undergraduate researchers.
August 24th: Barry is giving an invited talk at the SPIE conference in San Diego.
August 2011: Our Communication “Efficient Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Tunable Open-Circuit Voltage” is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (just accepted manuscript).
August 2011: We welcome Isabel Kim from St Paul’s School as a visiting High School student.
June 2011: Our Communication “Efficient Solar Cells from Semi-Random P3HT Analogues Incorporating Diketopyrrolopyrrole” is published in Macromolecules
June 2011: We welcome Theo Hicks from Morehouse College for the summer as part of the REU program.
May 2011: Barry and Beate are at the EFRC summit in Washington. Beate presents a poster about semi-random polymers.
Summer 2011: Congratulations to Beate and Petr for receiving the Harold E. Moulton Graduate Fellowship from the Loker Hydrocarbon Institute (LHI)
April 27th, 2011: Barry presents a talk at the MRS conference in San Francisco
Spring 2011 – 2013: Congratulations to Beate and Petr for receiving the Chemistry Department Predoctoral Scholarship
April 25, 2011: Congratulations to Alejandra for receiving the Chemistry Department “Excellence in Teaching Award”
Spring 2011: Congratulations to Christi for receiving the USC Wise (Woman in Science and Engineering) College Undergraduate Research Fellowship
March 2011: Our Review in Green is published: “Polymer-Based Solar Cells: State-of-the-Art Principles for the Design of Active Layer Components”
February 2011: Our Communication “Semi-Random” Multichromophoric rr-P3HT Analogues for Solar Photon Harvesting” is published in Macromolecules
December 2010: Alejandra passes her Qualifying Exam
November 2010: Petr passes his Qualifying Exam
October 2010: Beate passes her Qualifying Exam