News

For the Spring 2020 quarter, our undergraduate Kelly will be part of the prestigious RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) program by the UCSB MRL. She will be working with Elias on data analysis for our rocksalt halide solid electrolytes project. Congratulations Kelly!

We are proud to announce that Howie, a 2nd year graduate student, received Honorable Mention for NSF GRFP 2020! Howie is a reliable and consistent researcher and deserves this achievement and beyond.

Huge congratulations to our 2nd year graduate student Emily for becoming NSF's Graduate Research Fellow 2020! Her hard work in and out of the lab paid off and the entire group is proud of her. Keep it up Emily!

For two days, Raphaële, Emily, Elizabeth, Allyson, and Kelly teach girls how to make lemon batteries. Emily gave a lecture on how batteries work, while Raphaële answered questions about what it's like to be a woman in science. This event was made possible by Girls Inc., and after-school program that allows middle school girls to explore science. Thank you for inviting us!

The Clément group goes to Captain Fatty's in Goleta to celebrate the new year and the addition of Vincent Wu and Alexis Manche to the group. Happy 2020!

Congratulations to Professor Clément for giving the Fall 2019 Dow Distinguished Lecture! She was nominated for the honor by the Graduate Students for Diversity in Science (GSDS) at UCSB. As the recipient of the title, she gave two talks on November 20, 2019, one about the Clément Group research and the other about diversity in STEM.

Our undergraduate Allyson was selected to present her research on Li-ion battery cathode microwave synthesis method for the SACNAS 2019 conference at the Honolulu Convention Center in Hawaii.

To celebrate the arrival of several new members, the entire group had a bbq, along with guest Dr. Tom Casey.

The solid-state materials community, along with Emily and Elio, gathered to share advances in the design, preparation and characterization of novel electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Howie was selected to participate in the 2019 EPR summer school hosted by IES/SharedEPR from July 17-21.  There, EPR experts from different fields led practicals and lectured on the underlying principles of EPR. We will apply these lessons to the development of an electrochemical EPR probe for the study of battery materials. Here is a photo of lecturers and participants on a Rocky Mountain excursion following the school.

https://sharedepr.org/epr-summer-school-2019/