THE SU LAB
Synthesis and Electronics of MolecuLar Materials
UC Riverside | Department of Chemistry
Recent News from the Su Lab:
March 2024
• Mack is selected to receive UCR’s ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award! This award is designed to highlight undergraduates who have performed excellently in research and/or classwork in Inorganic Chemistry.
• Matt and Ashley give oral presentations at the “Physical Chemistry of Molecular Electronics” symposium at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans.
February 2024
• Tim is named a 2024 Cottrell Scholar! Read more about the award here.
• Matt’s paper on London dispersion interactions in carbosilane backbones is published in JACS!
January 2024
• Jancrizto Ruidas and Roger Teng join the lab as undergraduate researchers.
November 2023
• The group receives an NSF CAREER award! This grant provides five years of support to investigate new concepts in molecular silicon electronics. Read more about it here.
October 2023
• Fernando Alfaro joins the lab as a grad student!
September 2023
• Imex’s paper on SiGe adamantanes is published in JACS! The article is featured in JACS Spotlights.
August 2023
• Mack, Nhien, and Aracely give oral and poster presentations at the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco.
• Grace gives a talk at the UCR CNAS Scholars Symposium to wrap up her summer research.
• Jess finishes the summer off by giving a poster presentation at the MacREU symposium.
June-July 2023
• Jess Hernandez joins our lab as a summer MacREU student.
• Amren Saran joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
• Fernando Alfaro joins our lab for a summer rotation.
• Aracely is awarded an ACS Bridge Travel Award to support her poster presentation at the National ACS Meeting in San Francisco.
• Mack is awarded a DIC Travel Award and a UCR Student Travel Mini-Grant to support his oral presentation at the ACS Meeting in San Francisco.
• Grace is recognized as a CNAS Scholar, which will support her research in the lab this summer.
May 2023
• Nhien is selected to attend the 2023 BASF North American Research Forum. She and her team win first prize there.
• Matt and Ashley give talks at the UC Chemical Symposium. Ashley wins award for “best flash talk”.
• Tim Jr. wins an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
• Ashley passes her oral examination and advances to Ph.D. candidacy.
• Aracely presents a poster at the UCR Undergraduate Research Symposium.
• Aracely is selected for the prestigious Chancellor’s Research Fellowship!
April 2023
• Josh, Miku, and Isabelle graduate from UCR, and the lab goes bowling to say farewell. We will miss you all!
• Josh and Miku decide they will both attend Cornell University next Fall to pursue their Ph.D. in Chemistry.
• Tim Jr. is selected as one of four recipients across the university for the highly competitive Yvonne Danielson Endowed Graduate Award.
• Tim Jr. wins an Advancing Faculty Diversity award.
• The lab welcomes a new undergraduate researcher, Grace Wang. Grace has also been selected as a RISE Scholar, which will support her summer research in the lab.
March 2023
• Miku is selected as UCR’s recipient of the ACS Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry.
• Isabelle completes a terrific honors thesis.
January 2023
• Shali Thai and Sam Mau join the lab as undergraduate researchers.