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CHESS user Joshua Choi, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, won a prestigious NASA Early Career Faculty Award for his project “Lightweight and Flexible Metal Halide Perovskite Thin Films for High Temperature Solar Cells.”

When building solar cells made from inorganic bulk heterojunctions (BHJ), donor and acceptor semiconducting materials are deposited from solution and phase separate. 

Katharine (Katie) Silberstein is in her final year as a graduate student in the Abruña Electrochemistry Lab here at Cornell University.

Among the very few spectacles typically missing from New York’s famous Times Square is a collection of several hundred of the world’s experts in synchrotron radiation.

Started in 2011, the Battermen (named in tribute to the lab’s first director, Boris (Bob) Batterman), have represented CHESS in the Cornell University Summer Softball league.

MacCHESS post-doc TK Chua seeks to understand the operation of enzymes that operate on gases, such as carbonic anhydrase and nitric oxide synthase, by applying the pressure-cryocooling technique to trap gas molecules in their active sites.

Jasmine leans over an empty Fuji water bottle, cutting two half-dollar sized circles a few centimeters apart from one another. After placing convex lenses in each hole, she gingerly glues each lens into the circles using copious amounts of hot glue.

CHESS Director Joel Brock was pleased to announce this year’s winner of the CHESS Student Paper Prize as Gaurav “Gino” Giri [1].