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Improving understanding of advanced Light-Emitting Materials

December 3, 2025

Laura McCaslin, CRF postdocs Varun Rishi and Ali Abou Taka and Hrant Hratchian (UC Merced), published a paper in “The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters” on “Quantifying Design Principles for Light-Emitting Materials with Inverted Singlet–Triplet Energy Gaps.” Most organic light-emitting materials lose efficiency because 75% of excitons are non-emissive triplets. So-called INVEST materials are different—they…

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David Chandler Awarded Herschbach Medal

December 3, 2025

David W. Chandler was awarded the Dudley Herschbach Medal at the XXIX Dynamics Of Molecular Collisions meeting in Snowbird Utah, July 6-11, 2025. The medal, named for Professor Dudley Herschbach (Harvard University), who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986, recognizes “bold and architectural work, inspiring and empowering” in Experimental and Theoretical Chemical Dynamics.…

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Sandians develop new Theory-Informed Kinetics Model

November 25, 2025

Sandians develop new Theory-Informed Kinetics Model

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Tim Zwier Awarded Miguel Catalán Medal

September 17, 2025

Tim Zwier Awarded Miguel Catalán Medal

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Krupa Ramasesha named Fulbright US Scholar

September 4, 2025

The Department of State named chemist Krupa Ramasesha to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program to Austria for the 2025-2026 academic year. During her time in Austria, Krupa will hold the Fulbright-NAWI Graz Visiting Professorship in the Natural Sciences at the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology. In this position, co-sponsored by the…

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