Prof. Yuan Ping was awarded a 2018 Hellman fellowship! Congratulations! Established at UCSC in 2011, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support substantially the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity …
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Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network
Tyler Smart was accepted into the QISE-NET program! The Quantum Leap Big Idea was formulated as a cross-NSF activity focused on advancing the development of quantum technologies. The “Triplets” approach is one of the activities …
Summer Internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tyler Smart received a summer internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory! The Computational Chemistry & Materials Science (CCMS) Summer Institute at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) offers graduate students the opportunity to work directly with …
Theoretical and Experimental Insight into the Effect of Nitrogen Doping on Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Ni3S2 in Alkaline Medium
Nickel sulfide (Ni3S2) is a promising hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalyst by virtue of its metallic electrical conductivity and excellent stability in alkaline medium. However, the reported catalytic activities for Ni3S2 are still relatively low. …
First-principles engineering of charged defects for two-dimensional quantum technologies
Charged defects in two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerging applications in quantum technologies such as quantum emitters and quantum computation. The advancement of these technologies requires a rational design of ideal defect centers, demanding reliable computation …
Small Polaron Formation and Transport in Doped Hematite
A complete study of the effect of defects (including Oxygen vacancies, Nitrogen, Nitrogen+Oxygen Vacancy and Tin) on the electronic structure of Hematite (Fe2O3), including a further study on small polaron transport in pristine Hematite and …
Electrochemical study of Nitrogen and Iron-Codoped Carbon
In this combined experimental and theoretical work, electrochemical studies showed that the resulting Fe, N-codoped carbons exhibited enhanced electrocatalytic activity toward oxygen reduction in alkaline media as compared to the counterparts doped with nitrogen alone …
Research Support from BNL cluster
Research resources from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, which is a U.S. DOE Office of Science User Facility, at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Welcome Dr. Feng Wu!
The Ping Group gladly welcomes postdoctoral researcher Dr. Feng Wu from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University! Learn More
Ping Group awarded Research Support
Ping Group received NERSC 2017 Production Allocation Award by DOE office, BES