Rocky Mountain Solid State Chemistry Workshop
Rocky Mountain Solid State Chemistry Workshop
January 10-11, 2023
University of Colorado Boulder
Mission: Solid state chemistry within the Colorado Front Range is becoming nationally recognized as a regional strength. The mission of this workshop is to bring together this growing community of solid state chemists and provide a forum for seeding new collaborations.
Research areas: Solid state chemistry spans the synthesis, structure, and properties of solid phase materials. Examples within synthesis and structure include new material discovery, single crystal and thin film growth, and diffraction and scattering techniques. Within this workshop, topics will range from magnetism to gas storage to ion transport.
Structure: With the focus on strengthening the Front Range solid state chemistry community, the workshop has four core components:
- Invited talks from junior faculty and postdocs (30 minutes)
- Poster sessions (cash prizes!)
- Science speed dating and new collaboration pitch session (cash prizes!)
Attendees: The conference is free and we welcome anyone at any stage in their scientific career interested in collaborating with solid state chemists. Attendees are stongly encouraged to present a poster on their on-going scientific efforts; if you did not provide a poster title during registration, or if you need to update your poster title, please do so here.
Invited Speakers
Sage Bauers, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
“Thin films: model systems for stabilizing thermodynamically challenged materials”
Gang Cao, University of Colorado Boulder
“Towards control of quantum states in high-Z materials via electric currents and magneto-synthesis”
Kamil Ciesielski (Toberer group), Colorado School of Mines
“Structure to property relationship explanation of ultra-low thermal conductivity in novel cage-like compounds”
Diego Gómez-Gualdrón, Colorado School of Mines
“Towards the introduction of synthetic feasibility predictions during high throughput computational screening of metal-organic frameworks”
Ann Greenaway, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
“Co-design of emerging semiconductor systems for photoelectrochemical applications”
Annalise Maughan, Colorado School of Mines
“Designing Disorder and Diffusion in Solid-State Electrolytes”
Eve Mozur, Colorado School of Mines
“Magnetism by design: validating computational predictions of Heusler skyrmion hosts”
Chris Rom (Neilson group), Colorado State University
“Mechanistically-guided materials chemistry: synthesis of new ternary nitrides, CaZrN2 and CaHfN2”
Luke Salzer (Sambur group), Colorado State University
“Lithium-ion diffusivity increases with block size in niobium tungsten oxide shear structures”
Rebecca Smaha, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
“Probing novel kagome magnets and quantum spin liquid candidates with scattering”
Nick Weadock (Toney group), University of Colorado Boulder
“Cracking open the chicken-and-egg correlations in metal halide perovskites: Dynamic local order in CH3NH3PbI3 and CH3NH3PbBr3“