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January 27, 2025: Qingpei <\/strong>successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Wan!<\/p>\n

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January 2025: <\/strong>We welcome Jinan Manikantan Sudharma<\/strong> as new first year graduate student in our group!<\/p>\n

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June 28, 2024:\u00a0<\/strong>We took a group hike in Palos Verdes along the Seascape and Terranea trail past the Point Vicente Lighthouse followed by Lunch at the Terranea Resort.<\/p>\n

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April 24, 2024: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at the\u00a0Stauffer Symposium<\/strong> at USC.<\/p>\n

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April 23, 2024:\u00a0<\/strong>Two group members were honored at the Annual Departmental Stauffer Banquet<\/strong>.\u00a0Qingpei Wan\u00a0<\/strong>was honored with the G. K. Surya Prakash Award for Excellence in Hydrocarbon Chemistry and Grace Castillo\u00a0<\/strong>received an Excellence in Graduate Research Award. Congratulations to Qingpei and Grace!<\/p>\n

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March 15, 2024: Barry<\/strong>,\u00a0Tanin<\/strong>, and our former summer student\u00a0Luis<\/strong> presented a talk at\u00a0Los Angeles Pierce College<\/strong> discussing summer internship opportunities at USC.<\/p>\n

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January 2024: <\/strong>We welcome Sarah Karabadjakyan<\/strong> as new first year graduate student in our group!<\/p>\n

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October 19, 2023: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited seminar in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at\u00a0Rice University.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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October 13, 2023: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited seminar in the Chemistry Department at the\u00a0University of Kentucky.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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August 17-18, 2023: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Megan Fieser\u00a0<\/strong>taught a micro-seminar on Plastics Sustainability for freshman during USC Welcome Week.<\/p>\n

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July 5-11, 2023: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Steve\u00a0<\/strong>participated in the NIST Summer Workshop for undergraduate students at USC and on Catalina Island.<\/p>\n

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June 18, 2023: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk at the\u00a0Fpi15 Conference\u00a0<\/strong>in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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May 1, 2023: Alexander <\/strong>successfully defended his dissertation and we celebrated it over dinner. Congratulations Dr. Schmitt!
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March 29, 2023:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Steven Sheppard\u00a0<\/strong>for receiving Honorable Mention for his application to the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.<\/p>\n

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March 23, 2023:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Alexander Schmitt\u00a0<\/strong>for winning\u00a0an\u00a0Excellence in Gradaute Student Research Award<\/em>\u00a0at the Annual Stauffer Banquet in the Chemistry Department.<\/p>\n

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January 12, 2023:\u00a0<\/strong>Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk in the Chemistry Department at UNC Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

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January 2023:\u00a0<\/strong>We welcome Steven Sheppard<\/strong> and\u00a0Dhairya Patel<\/strong> as new first year graduate students in our group!<\/p>\n

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December 9, 2022: Negar <\/strong>successfully defended her dissertation and we celebrated it over lunch. Congratulations Dr. Kazerouni!
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September 6, 2022: Pratyusha <\/strong>successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Das!<\/p>\n

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August 24, 2022: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an\u00a0invited talk<\/em> at the ACS National Meeting in Chicago in the syomposium on Functional Conjugated Polymers.<\/p>\n

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May 9, 2022: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presetned a talk at the MRS Spring National Meeting in Honolulu. The talk was highlighted in the MRS “Meeting Scene”:\u00a0https:\/\/materials.typepad.com\/mrs_meeting_scene\/2022\/05\/symposium-eq03next-generation-organic-semiconductorsmaterials-fundamentals-and-applications.html<\/p>\n

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March 3, 2022:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Pratyusha\u00a0<\/strong>for winning an Excellence in Gradaute Student Research Award<\/em> at the Annual Stauffer Banquet in the Chemistry Department.<\/p>\n

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February 18, 2022: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a Highlands in Chemistry Seminar at Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

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February 8, 2022:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to Liwei<\/strong> for successfully defending his dissertation. Congratulations to Dr. Ye!\u00a0
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January 11, 2022:<\/strong> We welcome\u00a0Prof. Rafael Verduzco\u00a0 (https:\/\/verduzcolab.blogs.rice.edu)\u00a0<\/strong>who will be spending his sabbatical with us. Welcome Rafael!<\/p>\n

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November 11, 2021: Sanket\u00a0<\/strong>succesfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Samal!<\/p>\n

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May 18, 2021: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk (virtual) at the MACRO 2020+ conference (Jeju, South Korea).<\/p>\n

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April 15, 2021: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk (virtual) at the Spring ACS National Meeting.<\/p>\n

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December 14, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>We are happy to welcome\u00a0Tanin Hooshmand\u00a0<\/strong>as a new first year graduate student in our group. Welcome Tanin!<\/p>\n

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December 1, 2020: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk (virtual) in the Chemistry Department at Kennesaw State University.<\/p>\n

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September 24, 2020: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a seminar (virtual) in the Chemistry Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.<\/p>\n

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July 7, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations for\u00a0Pratyusha Das\u00a0<\/strong>for passing her qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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July 1, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Alexander Schmitt\u00a0<\/strong>for passing his qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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June 30, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Negar Kazerouni<\/strong> for passing her qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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May 18, 2020:<\/strong>\u00a0Congratulations to\u00a0Liwei Ye<\/strong> for passing his qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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May 13, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Robert Pankow\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

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May 7, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Robert Pankow<\/strong> for receiving the G. K. Surya Prakash Award<\/strong>\u00a0in recognition of outstanding work in the areas of hydrocarbon and energy research in the USC Department of Chemistry.<\/p>\n

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May 7, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to Mami Horikawa<\/strong> for receiving the\u00a0Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

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April 7, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to Alexander Schmitt<\/strong> for receiving the 2020 Wrigley Institute Sonosky Summer Fellowship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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March 31, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Robert\u00a0<\/strong>for being selected to the\u00a0Materials Horizons<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Community Board.<\/p>\n

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March 30, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Robert (now Dr. Pankow)\u00a0<\/strong>for successfully defending his dissertation.<\/p>\n

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March 23, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Sanket\u00a0<\/strong>for receiving the\u00a0Stauffer Endowed Fellowship\u00a0<\/strong>from the USC Graduate School for the 2020-2021 Academic Year.<\/p>\n

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December 18, 2019: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>is promoted to\u00a0Full Professor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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December 10, 2019: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk at the Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC16) in Singapore.<\/p>\n

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Septemeber 12, 2019:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Mami\u00a0<\/strong>for receiving the Fall 2019 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship.<\/p>\n

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August 27, 2019: Robert\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk on DArP at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.<\/p>\n

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August 13, 2019: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference in San Diego.<\/p>\n

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July 26, 2019: <\/strong>We spent the day in Rancho Palos Verdes with lunch at Terranea, hikes along the coast, and hanging out near Point Vicente Lighthouse (pictures<\/a>).<\/p>\n

June 1, 2019:\u00a0<\/strong>Our\u00a0NSF Grant\u00a0<\/strong>(Chemistry, MSN, under Award number CHE-1904650:<\/a>\u00a0“Advancing the Performance and Capabilities of Direct Arylation Polymerization (DArP)”) is funded.<\/p>\n

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April 22-26, 2019: Barry, Robert,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Sanket\u00a0<\/strong>attend the 2019 Spring MRS Meeting in Phoenix. Barry organized the symposium “Frontiers in Organic Photovoltaics” and Robert and Sanket presented Posters.<\/p>\n

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April 10, 2019: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an Invited Talk at Carnegie Mellon University<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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January 2019: Mami Horikawa<\/strong>\u00a0has received the\u00a0Morrisroe Family Chemistry Undergraduate Research Fellowship\u00a0<\/strong>for 2019.<\/p>\n

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Fall 2018: Barry<\/strong> and his collaborators Prof. Ashley Karlin and Prof. Atia Satar are named\u00a0Dornsife Science Transformation Fellows<\/strong> for 2018-2020 for their work on Write-to-Learn Pedagogies in Organic Chemistry.<\/p>\n

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August 24, 2018:\u00a0<\/strong>Our paper “Copper Catalyzed Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers using Direct Arylation Polymerization” has been highlighted as the best paper in Polymer Chemistry<\/em> in August 2018.<\/p>\n

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July 9, 2018: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n

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July 2, 2018: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk at the International Conference on the Science and Tehnology of Synthetic Metals (ICSM) in Busan, Korea.<\/p>\n

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June 29, 2018: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk at Hong Kong Polytechnic Univerisity in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

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June 27, 2018: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented and invited talk at Peking University Shenzhen Gradaute School in Shenzhen, China.<\/p>\n

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June 25, 2018: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>Presented an invited talk at South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhu, China.<\/p>\n

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May 15, 2018:\u00a0<\/strong>Our NSF proposal “Elucidating Physcial and Electronic Interactions in Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells” has been funded through the CBET Energy for Sustainability Program.<\/p>\n

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April 12, 2018:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to Robert\u00a0<\/strong>for winning an Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award at the Annual Stauffer Banquet.<\/p>\n

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April 2018: Betsy’s<\/strong> potentiostat work and participation in the Joint Undertaking for an African Materials Institute (JUAMI) was highlighted in USC News<\/a> and Dornsife News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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February 6, 2018: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk in the Chemistry Department at\u00a0Purdue University<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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December 2017: Betsy\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at the African MRS in Botswana.<\/p>\n

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December 2017: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at the Macromex 2017 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.<\/p>\n

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December, 2017:\u00a0<\/strong>We welcome three new graduate students:\u00a0Liwei Ye<\/strong>,\u00a0Pratyusha Das<\/strong>, and\u00a0Negar Kazerouni<\/strong> to the group.<\/p>\n

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October, 2017:<\/strong>\u00a0Congratulations to\u00a0Seyma<\/strong> for successfully defending her PhD thesis.<\/p>\n

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September 4, 2017: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at i-MEET at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.<\/p>\n

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August 31, 2017: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at the European Conference on Molecular Electronics in Dresden, Germany.<\/p>\n

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July, 2017:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Nemal<\/strong> for successfully defending his PhD thesis.<\/p>\n

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March, 2017:<\/strong> Congratulations to\u00a0Nemal<\/strong>\u00a0for winning the G. K. Surya Prakash award for excellence in hydrocarbon research.<\/p>\n

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March, 2017:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Robert\u00a0<\/strong>for passing his Qualifying Exam.<\/p>\n

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December, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>We welcome two new graduate students, Sanket Samal<\/strong> and Qingpei Wan<\/strong>, and two\u00a0undergraduate students,\u00a0John Luke McConn<\/strong>\u00a0and Alejandro Duran<\/strong>, to the group.<\/p>\n

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December, 2016:\u00a0Seyma\u00a0<\/strong>presented a poster at the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston.<\/p>\n

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October-November, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>Nemal<\/strong> visited our collaborators at DTU in Denmark to study DArP and flow polymerization.<\/p>\n

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June 21, 2016:<\/strong>\u00a0Congratulations to Jenna<\/strong> for successfully defending her PhD thesis.<\/p>\n

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May-June, 2016:<\/strong>\u00a0Betsy<\/strong> went to Arusha, Tanzania as part of the NSF-funded JUAMI 2016: Materials for Sustainable Energy summer school.<\/p>\n

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May 12, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at Risoe-DTU in Roskilde, Denmark as part of the eGOPV conference.<\/p>\n

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May 9, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>Our NSF Grant “Expanding the Scope and Enabling Potential of Direct Arylation Polymerization (DArP)” is funded by the Division of Chemistry (MSN).<\/p>\n

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May 9, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany.<\/p>\n

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May 3, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at Universite de Versailles San-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Versailles, France.<\/p>\n

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May 2, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a second talk at ENS Cachan.<\/p>\n

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April 27, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>prestented a talk at ENS Cachan.<\/p>\n

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April 26, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at Universite Paris-Sud in Orsay, France.<\/p>\n

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April 20, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France.<\/p>\n

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April 18 – May 6: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>is a visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Cachan, France.<\/p>\n

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April 4, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Betsy<\/strong> for receiving the Sonosky Summer Fellowship with the USC Wrigley Institute.<\/p>\n

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March 30, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n

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March 29, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n

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March 25, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.<\/p>\n

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March 24, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk a Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey.<\/p>\n

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March 15, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk in the PMSE division at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.<\/p>\n

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March 13, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk in the Energy and Fuels Division at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.<\/p>\n

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March 9, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Sangtaik\u00a0<\/strong>for succesfully defending his PhD thesis.<\/p>\n

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February 2, 2016: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presnted an invited talk at the MROP 2016 at UCSB.<\/p>\n

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January, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Betsy<\/strong> for passing her qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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December, 2015:\u00a0<\/strong>We welcome a new graduate student,\u00a0Robert Pankow<\/strong>, and undergraduate student,\u00a0Christopher Jurich<\/strong>, to the group.<\/p>\n

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December 2015: Jenna\u00a0<\/strong>presented a poster at the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston.<\/p>\n

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November 18th 2015: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk at the Nanotechnology for Defense Conference (NT4D) in City of Industry, CA.<\/p>\n

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November 17th 2015: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invtited talk at UCSB.<\/p>\n

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October 14th 2015: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented an invited talk at the Electrochemical Society Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.<\/p>\n

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May 14th 2015:<\/strong> Congratulations to Bing\u00a0<\/strong>for completing the hooding ceremony for her PhD.<\/p>\n

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April 16th 2015: <\/strong>Congratulations to Jenna <\/strong>for winning an Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award at the Annual Stauffer Banquet.<\/p>\n

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March 5th 2015: Barry <\/strong>is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.<\/p>\n

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March 5th 2015: Bing\u00a0<\/strong>successfully defends her PhD thesis.<\/p>\n

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January, 2015:<\/strong> Congratulations to Seyma<\/strong> for passing her qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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December, 2014:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Nemal<\/strong>\u00a0for passing his qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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November 21st 2014: Barry <\/strong>presented an invited talk in the College of Engineering at Seoul National University in South Korea.
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November 20th 2014: Barry <\/strong>presented an invited talk at the EEWS International Workshop on Organic Photovolotaics at KAIST in South Korea.
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November 19th 2014: Barry <\/strong>presented an invited talk in the Department of Chemical Engineering at KAIST in South Korea.
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November 18th 2014: Barry <\/strong>presented an invited talk at the ENGE conference on Jeju Island, South Korea.
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October 27th 2014:\u00a0 Barry <\/strong>presented an invited talk at KAUST (Saudi Arabia) at the Applied Functional Materials Workshop.<\/p>\n

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September 1st 2014:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to Andrey<\/strong> for his new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University with Prof. Robert Waymouth in the Department of Chemistry.<\/p>\n

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August 20th 2014: Barry<\/strong> presents and invited talk at the SPIE (Organic Photovoltaics XV) in San Diego.<\/p>\n

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August 13th 2014: Barry<\/strong> presents and invited talk at the XPV conference in Telluriude, CO.<\/p>\n

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July 15th 2014: <\/strong>Our NSF Grant<\/strong>, “Polymer-Based Ternary Blends,” was awarded (CBET-1436875) through the Energy for Sustainability Program in CBET.<\/p>\n

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May 21st 2014: <\/strong>Congratualtions to Andrey <\/strong>for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation.<\/p>\n

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May 15th 2014: <\/strong>Congratulations to Andrey<\/strong> for completing the hooding ceremony for his PhD.<\/p>\n

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April 24th 2014: <\/strong>Congratulations to Andrey<\/strong> for winning the G. K. Surya Prakash award for excellence in hydrocarbon research.<\/p>\n

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April 24th 2014: <\/strong>Congratulations to Alia<\/strong> for winning the Jay Struckhoff Graduate Student Award.<\/p>\n

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April 24th 2014: <\/strong>Congratulations to Nemal<\/strong> for winning the departmental award for excellence in teaching for Orgnaic Chemistry.<\/p>\n

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Aprill 21st 2014:<\/strong> Barry gave a talk at the Spring MRS Meeting in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

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Aprill 14th 2014:<\/strong> Barry gave a talk in the Chemistry Department at UCLA.<\/p>\n

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April 8th 2014:\u00a0<\/strong>Barry gave a talk at the BASF Scouting Workshop in San Francisco, representing the Department of Chemitry.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/em>April 1st 2014:<\/strong> 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\u00a0ACS Macro Letters.<\/em><\/p>\n

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March 14th 2014:<\/strong>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<\/em>.
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January 6th 2014:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Petr\u00a0<\/strong>for his new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University with Prof. Lynn Loo in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>January 4th 2014:\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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December 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>We welcome first year graduate student\u00a0Betsy Melenbrink<\/strong> and undergraduate\u00a0George Andrews<\/strong> into our group.<\/p>\n

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November 12th 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>Former group member,\u00a0Brian Rodysill<\/strong>, is featured in a USC Dornsife Interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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November 5th 2013: Barry <\/strong>presented a talk on direct arylation polymerization at Georgia Tech.
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November 4th 2013: Barry <\/strong>presented a talk on our ternary blend and semi-random work at Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n

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October 29th 2013: Barry\u00a0<\/strong>presented a talk at the Technical University of Denmark.<\/p>\n

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October 21st 2013: Barry<\/strong> presented a talk at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n

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September 19th 2013:<\/strong> Congratulations to\u00a0Jenna<\/strong> for passing her qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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September 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>Our paper “Optimization and Simplification of Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells through Polymer and and Active Layer Design” in\u00a0Polymer<\/strong>, Volume 54 – Issue 20, has been featured on the cover.
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September 4th 2013: <\/strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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August 6th 2013: Alejandra<\/strong> defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations.<\/p>\n

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July 20th: <\/strong>Our Feature Aricle<\/em> “Optimization and Simplification of Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells through Polymer and and Active Layer Design” has been accepted for pubication in\u00a0Polymer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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July 19th: <\/strong>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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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July 18th: <\/strong>Our paper “Influence of selenophene on the properties of semi-random polymers and their blends with PC61BM” has been accepted for publication in\u00a0Nanotechnology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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July 17-19th: <\/strong>Barry attends the EFRC PI Meeting in Washington, DC and presents a poster.<\/p>\n

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July 12th 2013: <\/strong>Our paper “Influences of Beta-linkages on Morphology and Performance of DArP P3HT-PC61BM Solar Cells” has been accepted for publication in\u00a0Nanotechnology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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July 2nd 2013: <\/strong>We had a group BBQ at Griffith Park.
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June 21st 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>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\u00a0J. Phys. Chem. C.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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June 20th 2013: Peter<\/strong>\u00a0defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Peter Khlyabich, the second Ph.D. graduate from our group (picture<\/a>).<\/p>\n


\nMay 16th 2013:\u00a0 <\/strong>Congratulations to Beate <\/strong>and Petr<\/strong>, the first group members to complete the PhD hooding ceremony (picture<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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May 13th 2013:<\/strong>\u00a0 Congtratulations to Sangtaik <\/strong>for passing his qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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May 2nd and 3rd: Barry<\/strong> presented talks at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n

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April 24th 2013: Barry<\/strong>\u00a0 presented a talk at Columbia University.<\/p>\n

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April 22nd 2013:<\/strong>\u00a0Congratulations to\u00a0Jenna<\/strong> for receiving\u00a0an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of\u00a0Chemistry.<\/p>\n

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April 17th 2013: Barry\u00a0<\/strong> presented a talk at the University of California Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n

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April 3rd 2013: Barry<\/strong> presented a talk at the MRS meeting in San Francisco.
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March 12th 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>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\u00a0J. Phys. Chem. C.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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March 1st 2013:<\/strong> Barry<\/strong> presented a talk in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n

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February 25th 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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February 13th 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>Our Communication “Origin of the Tunable Open Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells” (JACS. 2013,<\/strong> 135, 986-989.) was featured in the JACS Spotlight<\/strong> (JACS. 2013,<\/strong> 135, 2011-2012.)<\/p>\n

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February 11th 2013: Barry <\/strong>presented a talk at the University of Colorado.<\/p>\n

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February 8th 2013: Barry <\/strong>presented a talk at the Colorado School of Mines.<\/p>\n

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February 7th 2013: Barry <\/strong>presented a talk at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.<\/p>\n

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January 25th 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>Barry<\/strong> presented a talk at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

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January 2013: Andrey<\/strong> presented a poster at the Gordon Conference on Macromolecular Materials.<\/p>\n

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January 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Joahanna<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0receiving the Spring 2013 WiSE Undergraduate Research Fellowship.<\/p>\n

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December 2012:\u00a0<\/strong>Our Communication “Origin of the Tunable Open Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells” has been accepted in\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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December 2012:\u00a0<\/strong>We welcome first year graduate students Seyma Ekiz<\/strong> and Nemal Gobalasingham<\/strong> into our group.<\/p>\n

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December 7th 2012:\u00a0<\/strong>We celebrate the Holiday season at our group party (pictures<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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November 2012:\u00a0<\/strong>Our communication “Semi-Random Two-Acceptor Polymer: Elucidating Electronic Trends Through Multiple Acceptor Combinations” has been accepted in\u00a0Macromol. Chem. Phys.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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November 28th 2012:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to Alia<\/strong> for passing her qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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November 13th 2012:\u00a0<\/strong>Barry<\/strong> presented a talk at the University of Redlands.<\/p>\n

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November 12th 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Congratulations to Bing<\/strong> for passing her qualifying exam.<\/p>\n

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November 5th 2012:\u00a0Beate<\/strong> defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Beate Burkhart, the first Ph.D. graduate from our group (picture<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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August 19th 2012:\u00a0<\/strong>Barry<\/strong> presented an invited talk at the ACS meeting in Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n

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June 27th 2012<\/strong>: Barry<\/strong> presented an invited talk at the IUPAC World Polymer Congress in Blacksburg, VA.<\/p>\n

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May 29th 2012<\/strong>: Beate<\/strong> gave a talk at the Danish Technical University – Energy Conversion (Denmark).<\/p>\n

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May 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Our communication\u00a0“Compositional Dependence of the Open-Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Based on Two Donor Polymers”\u00a0has been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/em><\/strong> (just accepted manuscript).<\/p>\n

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May 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Our publication\u00a0\u00a0“Semi-Random P3HT Analogues via Direct Arylation Polymerization”\u00a0has been accepted in\u00a0J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem.<\/p>\n

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May 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Our publication “Influence of the Acceptor Composition on Physical Properties and Solar Cell Performance in Semi-Random Two-Acceptor Copolymers” has been accepted in\u00a0ACS Macro Lett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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April \u00a02012:<\/strong>\u00a0Congratulations to\u00a0Joahanna<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0receiving the Summer 2012 Rose Hills Undergraduate Research Fellowship.<\/p>\n

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April 12th, 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Congratulations to\u00a0Petr<\/strong>\u00a0for winning the Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research Award in the Chemistry Department.<\/p>\n

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April 12th, 2012:\u00a0Congratulations to Beate<\/strong> for winning the 2012 Kenneth Nobutoshi Wachi Award for Excellence in Research and Service in the Department of Chemistry.<\/p>\n

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April 12th, 2012:\u00a0Congratulations to Alia<\/strong> for winning\u00a0an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of\u00a0Chemistry.<\/p>\n

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April 10-12th, 2012:<\/strong> Barry, Beate <\/strong>and Petr<\/strong> attended the MRS National Meeting in San Francisco with Barry<\/strong> giving a talk and Beate<\/strong> and Petr<\/strong> presenting posters.<\/p>\n

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April 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Our 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\u00a0Macromolecules<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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March 2012: <\/strong>Congratulations to Beate<\/strong> for receiving the 2012-2013 WISE Merit Fellowship for Doctoral Students.<\/p>\n

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March 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Our publication “Solar cells based on semi-random P3HT analogues containing dithienopyrrole: influence of incorporating a strong donor” has been published in\u00a0J. Photon. Energy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Solar cells based on semi-random P3HT analogues<\/div>\n
containing dithienopyrrole: influence of<\/div>\n
incorporating a strong donor<\/div>\n

December 20th, 2011:<\/strong>\u00a0Congratulations to\u00a0Joahanna<\/strong>\u00a0for receiving the 2012 WISE Undergraduate Research Grant for Spring 2012.<\/p>\n

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December 9th, 2011:<\/strong>\u00a0Group Christmas Party (pictures<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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December 2011:<\/strong> We welcome Jenna Howard<\/strong> in the group (first year graduate student in the Chemistry Department).<\/p>\n

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December 2011:\u00a0<\/strong>Our publication “Solar Cells Based on Semi-Random P3HT Analogues Containing Dithienopyrrole: Influence of Incorporating a Strong Donor” has been accepted in\u00a0J. Photon. Energy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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November 2011:<\/strong>\u00a0We welcome\u00a0Bing Xu<\/strong>\u00a0in the group (third year graduate student in the Chemistry Department).<\/div>\n

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November 2011:<\/strong> Andrey<\/strong> passes his Qualifying Exam.<\/p>\n

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October 2011: <\/strong>Barry<\/strong> presented an invited talk at the Global Organic Photovoltaics Conference (GOPV) in Hangzhou China.<\/p>\n

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September 2011:<\/strong> Congratulations to Brian<\/strong> for receiving the “Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Fall 2011”.<\/p>\n

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September 2011:<\/strong> We welcome Joahanna MacAranas<\/strong> and Brian R. Rodysill<\/strong> in our group as undergraduate researchers.<\/p>\n

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August 24th:<\/strong> Barry is giving an invited talk at the SPIE conference in San Diego.<\/p>\n

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August 2011:<\/strong> Our Communication “Efficient Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Tunable Open-Circuit Voltage” is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. <\/em><\/strong>(just accepted manuscript).
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August 2011<\/strong>: We welcome Isabel Kim<\/strong> from St Paul’s School as a visiting High School student.<\/p>\n

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June 2011<\/strong>: Our Communication “Efficient Solar Cells from Semi-Random P3HT Analogues Incorporating Diketopyrrolopyrrole” is published in Macromolecules<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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June 2011<\/strong>: We welcome Theo Hicks<\/strong> from Morehouse College for the summer as part of the REU program.<\/p>\n

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May 2011<\/strong>: Barry <\/strong>and Beate <\/strong>are at the EFRC summit in Washington. Beate <\/strong>presents a poster about semi-random polymers.<\/p>\n

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Summer 2011<\/strong>: Congratulations to Beate<\/strong> and Petr<\/strong> for receiving the Harold E. Moulton Graduate Fellowship from the Loker Hydrocarbon Institute (LHI)<\/p>\n

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April 27th, 2011<\/strong>: Barry<\/strong> presents a talk at the MRS conference in San Francisco<\/p>\n

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Spring 2011 – 2013<\/strong>: Congratulations to Beate <\/strong>and Petr <\/strong>for receiving the Chemistry Department Predoctoral Scholarship<\/p>\n

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April 25, 2011<\/strong>: Congratulations to Alejandra <\/strong>for receiving the Chemistry Department “Excellence in Teaching Award”<\/p>\n

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Spring 2011<\/strong>: Congratulations to Christi<\/strong> for receiving the USC Wise (Woman in Science and Engineering) College Undergraduate Research Fellowship<\/p>\n

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March 2011<\/strong>: Our Review in Green<\/strong><\/em> is published: “Polymer-Based Solar Cells: State-of-the-Art Principles for the Design of Active Layer Components”<\/p>\n

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February 2011<\/strong>: Our Communication “Semi-Random” Multichromophoric rr-P3HT Analogues for Solar Photon Harvesting” is published in Macromolecules<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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December 2010<\/strong>: Alejandra <\/strong>passes her Qualifying Exam<\/p>\n

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November 2010<\/strong>: Petr <\/strong>passes his Qualifying Exam<\/p>\n

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October 2010<\/strong>: Beate <\/strong>passes her Qualifying Exam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-content-detail.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNews - Barry C. Thompson Research Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/barry-c-thompson-research-group\/news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News - Barry C. 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