KEVIN F. KELLY
Dr. Kelly earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines (1993) and his graduate degrees in Applied Physics from here at Rice (1996, 1999) in the lab of Naomi Halas . After a successful post-doc in Japan with Toshio Sakurai and at Penn State with Paul Weiss, he returned to Rice in 2002.
E-MAIL: kkelly at rice dot edu
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Lili Wang received her degrees at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006 under the tutelage of Dr. Qi-Kun Xue and then made the trek to Rice. She works on metal island-on-graphite substrates for various applications, such as investigating nanowires and nanocars.
E-MAIL: lw2 at rice dot edu
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Andrew Osgood investigates nanocars and other nanomachines to better understand the rolling mechanism in fullerene-based nano-vehicles, in collaboration with the Tour group. The cars can be thermally driven and manipulated by the STM tip. Currently he is investigating various flavors of nanocars such as porphyrin-based trucks that can transport molecules.
E-MAIL: osgood at rice dot edu
Dharmpal Takhar is currently working on compressed sensing-based imaging techniques such as the much-touted "single pixel camera," along with Rich Baraniuk's group. He formerly worked on a very different project, fluorinated carbon nanotubes.
E-MAIL: kaka at rice dot edu
Albert Chang studies the properties of gold colloid on gold films of varying thickness, shedding light on the surface-enhanced Raman properties. Albert continues to ply his trade at all three of the major scanning probe techniques (STM, AFM, and NSOM). His project is in collaboration with the Rice MURI on Nanophotonics, headed by Dr. Halas.
E-MAIL: atchang at rice dot edu
Jun Zhang's current work is on azofullerene molecule properties and other nanomachines. His Masters work was on thiolated and thiophenated nanotubes, in collaboration with the Barron group. Jun also built a low noise Weiss-style ambient scope that can provide microwave STM images as well.
E-MAIL: zhangjun at rice dot edu
Raj Giridharagopal is a fourth-year student studying polymer nanostructures. He previously studied polydiacetylene nanowires on graphite and molybdenum disulfide, in particular their electronic properties as analyzed by STM. Now he studies organic photovoltaic materials using STM, hopefully shedding light on their "nanoscale" properties. The photo at left was taken when Raj and Jun were attending the IEEE-NANO 2007 conference in Hong Kong.
E-MAIL: rajivg at rice dot edu
JungHo "JK" Kang looks at double-walled nanotubes to investigate the very controversial subject of the inner tube chirality, in collaboration with Dr. Valery Khabashesku's group. JK also works on analyzing chemically-modified graphene in collaboration with the Billups Lab.
E-MAIL: jkang at rice dot edu
Ting Sun joined the lab to work on a novel confocal microscopy setup using compressed sensing. Her work, like Dharmpal's, is in collaboration with Dr. Baraniuk.
E-MAIL: ting.sun at rice dot edu
ALUMNI
Yanbin Zhang, graduate student (no degree), now at Texas A&M
Vivek Bansal, post-doctoral researcher, Baylor College of Medicine
Alice Brank, REU summer student, Maryville College
Siva Nagisetty, undergraduate, Rice
Melodie Chu, undergraduate, Rice
Dr. Kelly earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines (1993) and his graduate degrees in Applied Physics from here at Rice (1996, 1999) in the lab of Naomi Halas . After a successful post-doc in Japan with Toshio Sakurai and at Penn State with Paul Weiss, he returned to Rice in 2002.
E-MAIL: kkelly at rice dot edu
Lili Wang received her degrees at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006 under the tutelage of Dr. Qi-Kun Xue and then made the trek to Rice. She works on metal island-on-graphite substrates for various applications, such as investigating nanowires and nanocars.
E-MAIL: lw2 at rice dot edu
Andrew Osgood investigates nanocars and other nanomachines to better understand the rolling mechanism in fullerene-based nano-vehicles, in collaboration with the Tour group. The cars can be thermally driven and manipulated by the STM tip. Currently he is investigating various flavors of nanocars such as porphyrin-based trucks that can transport molecules.
E-MAIL: osgood at rice dot edu
Dharmpal Takhar is currently working on compressed sensing-based imaging techniques such as the much-touted "single pixel camera," along with Rich Baraniuk's group. He formerly worked on a very different project, fluorinated carbon nanotubes.
E-MAIL: kaka at rice dot edu
Albert Chang studies the properties of gold colloid on gold films of varying thickness, shedding light on the surface-enhanced Raman properties. Albert continues to ply his trade at all three of the major scanning probe techniques (STM, AFM, and NSOM). His project is in collaboration with the Rice MURI on Nanophotonics, headed by Dr. Halas.
E-MAIL: atchang at rice dot edu
Jun Zhang's current work is on azofullerene molecule properties and other nanomachines. His Masters work was on thiolated and thiophenated nanotubes, in collaboration with the Barron group. Jun also built a low noise Weiss-style ambient scope that can provide microwave STM images as well.
E-MAIL: zhangjun at rice dot edu
Raj Giridharagopal is a fourth-year student studying polymer nanostructures. He previously studied polydiacetylene nanowires on graphite and molybdenum disulfide, in particular their electronic properties as analyzed by STM. Now he studies organic photovoltaic materials using STM, hopefully shedding light on their "nanoscale" properties. The photo at left was taken when Raj and Jun were attending the IEEE-NANO 2007 conference in Hong Kong.
E-MAIL: rajivg at rice dot edu
JungHo "JK" Kang looks at double-walled nanotubes to investigate the very controversial subject of the inner tube chirality, in collaboration with Dr. Valery Khabashesku's group. JK also works on analyzing chemically-modified graphene in collaboration with the Billups Lab.
E-MAIL: jkang at rice dot edu
Ting Sun joined the lab to work on a novel confocal microscopy setup using compressed sensing. Her work, like Dharmpal's, is in collaboration with Dr. Baraniuk.
E-MAIL: ting.sun at rice dot edu
ALUMNI
Yanbin Zhang, graduate student (no degree), now at Texas A&M
Vivek Bansal, post-doctoral researcher, Baylor College of Medicine
Alice Brank, REU summer student, Maryville College
Siva Nagisetty, undergraduate, Rice
Melodie Chu, undergraduate, Rice