THE SU LAB
Synthesis and Electronics of MolecuLar Materials
UC Riverside | Department of Chemistry
Recent News from the Su Lab:
December 2024
• Congrats to recent graduates, Dr. Tim Siu and Dr. Nhien Nguyen, who will be starting new jobs in January! Tim will be an R&D Scientist at Heraeus in Santa Fe Springs, CA and Nhien will be a Senior Scientist at Alcon in Johns Creek, GA.
• Congrats to Fernando Alfaro for being selected for a GAANN Fellowship!
November 2024
• Melissa Zamora joins the lab as a graduate student!
October 2024
• Kemi Dawodu joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Kemi!
September 2024
• Ashley and Lan’s paper on the single-molecule conductance of staffanes is accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie!
• Jacob and Grace give excellent poster presentations at SoCal Organometallics at UCSD.
• Tim Jr. and Matt defend their theses and graduate. We will miss you both and your pioneering contributions to the lab.
August 2024
• Grace wins an Outstanding Poster Award for her presentation at the UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium!
• Nhien attends the 3M Rise Conference.
July 2024
• Ashley gives a poster presentation on her work on quantum interference in silicon diamondoids at the Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Gordon Research Seminar and Conference.
• Tim is named to the Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Early Career Advisory Board. Read more about it here.
• Tim gives talks at the 45th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry and Cottrell Scholars Conference.
• Holly Lusk joins the lab as a new graduate student. Welcome Holly!
June 2024
• Our trio of senior undergrads, Aracely Gonzalez, Lamia Haque, and Mack Durham graduate from UCR and head to new institutions for their Ph.D. studies in Chemistry: Aracely is going to Columbia University, Lamia is going to UC San Diego, and Mack is going to UCLA. We will miss you all very much!
• Tim Jr receives the 2024 Chemistry Alumni Award!
• Matt receives the 2024 Robert C. Haddon Memorial Endowed Graduate Award!
• Imex is selected to give a talk at the Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar in Newport, RI, and gives a poster presentation at the corresponding GRC.
May 2024
• Imex and Jacob both give poster presentations at the International Symposium on Main-group-element Chemistry (ISMEC) in Tsukuba, Japan, and oral presentations at the 20th International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry (ISOS) in Hiroshima, Japan. Tim gives invited talks at both conferences.
• Imex wins the BCSJ Award for his poster presentation at ISMEC!
• Aracely, Grace, Mack and Lamia give presentations at the UC Undergraduate Research Symposium.
• Matt and Tim’s review article “Opportunities in Main Group Molecular Electronics” is published in Trends in Chemistry as part of the ‘Emerging Leaders in Chemistry’ special issue.
• Ashley wins an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!
April 2024
• Lan gives a poster presentation at the Amgen Graduate Research Symposium.
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.
• Ashley gives an oral presentation at the UC Chemical Symposium.
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 an oral presentation 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.
• Imex and Ashley give oral presentations at the SoCal Organometallics Symposium.
• Tim Sr. gives a talk at the 10th European Silicon Days Conference in Montpellier, France.
• Lan is selected to give an oral presentation at the 2023 Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors GRS. She gives a poster presentation at the associated GRC.
May 2023
• Nhien is selected to attend the 2023 BASF North American Research Forum. She and her team are awarded first prize there for their presentation.
• Matt and Ashley give oral presentations 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 gives a poster presentation at the UCR Undergraduate Research Symposium.
• Aracely is selected for the prestigious Chancellor’s Research Fellowship Award!
• Josh is selected as the sole recipient of the CNAS Academic Excellence Award in Biochemistry.
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.