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Welcome to the Roberts Group!

The Roberts group develops new optical techniques to investigate energy transfer, charge transport, and spin dynamics in molecular materials. Current projects include design of hybrid organic:inorganic structures for shifting light's frequency spectrum, development of new optical microscopy methods for tracking excited species in nanoscale domains and at interfaces, and examining materials that allow for strong coupling of molecules to light.

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April 2022: Congratulations are in order for Danny who successfully defended his thesis! Danny will be heading out in May to start as a postdoctoral research in Jahan Dawlaty's Group at USC. Congrats Dr. Cotton!

April 2022: We are very happy to report that we will soon be receiving new funding from the National Science Foundation to support a new collaboration with the Page Group focused on developing new photocatalysts for 3D printing. Congrats to everyone involved in the efforts to get this project underway!

April 2022: We are pleased to announce that our group will receive a Spark Grant from UT's College of Natural Sciences. This grant will support the purchase of new equipment for time-resolved spectroscopy!

April 2022: Congratulations to Jess who has been awarded a Research Distinction for her undergraduate degree, which she'll complete this spring! Research Distinctions are given out to fewer than 5% of the graduating seniors of UT's College of Natural Sciences. After completing her degree, Jess will matriculate to Pitt to pursue a PhD in Chemistry. Congrats Jess!

March 2022: It's been a busy week! Sean, Danielle, and Kelly each attended the ACS national meeting in San Diego where they presented some of the group's new work on energy & charge transfer from nanocrystals to molecules and femtosecond transient microscopy!

January 2022: Congrats to Danielle and Emily! Their paper describing how quantum dot ligands can be leveraged to control electron transfer rates has been accepted by the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! This work represents a collaborative study with the Kilina group at NDSU and Iverson group here at UT. Nice work!

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