Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering @ PSU. Director of NSF 2D Crystal Consortium MIP.

Joined February 2018
Congratulations @Anushka4353 and Ankush! Had a great time at their wedding last weekend in Goa.
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Catching up on tweets. Ran into familiar faces of several group alumni at Fall MRS in Boston. (Excuse selfie awkwardness.)
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Visited group alum Xiaotian Zhang who is an asst prof at Shanghai Jiao Tong. Look at the size of his new lab! Impressive campus & facilities and he drives a new Tesla. 😊
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Joan Redwing retweeted
Good for 2D semiconductors. @imec_int puts "atomic channels" on their technology roadmap in 2036. Many puzzles to solve till then! There is growing consensus that atomically thin 2D semiconductors are the main post-Si option. CFET = stacked NMOS and PMOS. tomshardware.com/news/imec-r…
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Inspiring session on Women in Science at @2D_TMDs_2023 with @ProfRachelGaN and Yimo Han. – at Cambridge, England
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The Leaking Reeking Scrubbers and Team 2D Sea See at the 2022 Safety Olympics along with Ultra”man”. Continuing the group tradition!
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Spending the fall semester at UC-Berkeley with Prof @Zak_AlBalushi. He has built up an impressive lab with multiple MOCVD systems. Lots of good stuff underway here.
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MSE's own Prof. Zakaria Al Balushi has been highlighted as a "rising star of nanoscience" for his work in devising ways to produce next-generation nanomaterials. Prof. Al Balushi was interviewed for the Nature Index Report on Nanoscience/nanotechnology; which celebrates the
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Joan Redwing retweeted
2D TMDs 2023: Call for Abstracts June 26-29, 2023| Cambridge, UK We are going to host an in-person conference— 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides 2023 at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. Abstracts from students and PDRAs are very welcome! Link below: 2dtmds2023.com – at Cambridge, England
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The $280 billion “CHIPS-Plus” act more than doubles the @NSF budget over the next 5 years, setting up the agency’s new TIP directorate to super-charge scientific research, new technologies, innovation & partnerships. bit.ly/3cOu4O2
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Attended ICMOVPE XX in Germany this week and look who I ran into…@Dr_MChubarov
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Farewell gathering for longtime group member Azim Kozhakhmetov who is heading off to Intel. Azim is wearing PSU cap. I’m wearing traditional Kazakh robe. Azim-you will be missed!
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First group lunch since start of pandemic. A farewell gathering for Fulbright scholar Dorota who is returning to Poland.
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Wanted to share the good news...wouldn't have been possible without all the great grad students and postdocs throughout the years who shared my love of growing stuff. Penn State names 21 new distinguished professors for 2022 | Penn State University psu.edu/news/story/penn-stat…
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New Year’s wishes from Mel in Japan
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