News and Information
August 3, 2009: Dr Jing-Yin Chen reported her findings of high structural stability of SWNT well beyond that of sp2 C=C bonds in graphite and carbon fullerenes in Chem. Phys. Lett, entitled High Structural Stability of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube under Quasi-Hydrostatic High Pressures.
July 22, 2009: Dr. Amartya published his discovery of new extended carbon dioxide phase in Phys. Rev. B, entitled Raman Studies of Novel Molecular-to-Nonmolecular Transitions in Carbon Dioxide at High Pressures and Temperatures.
July 15, 2009: Prof. Yoo awarded a three-year NSF grant (DMR 0854618) on Mbar Chemistry: Novel State of Matter at Extreme Conditions,
June 29, 2009: Dr. Yoo delivered a plenary lecture on High Energy Density Extended Solids at the 2009 APS-SCCM conference in Nashville, TN, June 29 – July 3, 2009
July 15: Dr. Yoo received the second year funding from DHS-Alert (504928) for studies of Chemical and Shock Mitigation of Nonconventional Explosives
June 1, 2009: Dr. Yoo awarded a two-year ACS-PRF grant (49207-ND10) for High Pressure Kinetics Studies of Formation, Phase Transition, and Crystal Growth of Methane Hydrates in Dynamic-DAC
May 4, 2009: Dr. Yoo awarded a three-year grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA; BRBAA08-E-2-0059) to explore Novel Functional Extended Solids at Extreme Conditions.
Three recently joined group members: from the left, Ranga Diaz, Mathew Debessai, and Gus Borstad. Welcome and go Big on your dream!
April 4, 2009: Mr. Ranga Diaz, a graduate student in Physics Department, joined the Group. He is already moving ahead with his first project on organic metals.
March 24, 2009: Dr. Mathew Debassei joined the group from Prof. J. Schilling’s Group in Washington University, Saint Louis, MO. He will be taking on the project related to insulator-metal transitions in functional transition metals and compounds.
March 16, 2009: Several group members presented their research results at the 2009 APS_March meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-20, 2009.
- Choong-Shik Yoo on High Pressure "Mbar" Chemistry
- Amartya Sengupta on High pressure high temperature phases of carbon dioxide
- Jing-Yin Chen on Physical and Chemical Transformations of Sodium Cyanide at High Pressures
- Minseob Kim on Extended Solid Phase of Noble Fluorine at High Pressures
Feb. 1, 2009: Mr. Gus Borstad, a graduate student in Physics Department, joined the Group. He is working on understanding high-pressure behaviors of simple binary molecular mixtures.
January 9, 2009: Drs. Yoo and Chen attended the 2nd Global-COE forum at Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, and presented lectures, respectively, on Solid State Transformations in Extreme Conditions and on Chemical Transformations of CN Compounds at High Pressures.
December 15, 2008: Congratulation to the WSU-SRI-SWRI team who just won a multi-year project from the DARPA for the research on Reactive Material Structure. The team consists of five co-PI's: Atakan Pekar, Yogendra Gupta, and Choong-Shik Yoo from WSU, James Gran at SRI, and Gordon Johnson at SWRI.
Aug. 5, 2008: Two talented REU students, Raymond Clay and Joe Lanska, have completed their summer projects on high-pressure materials research.
