September 2025:
We welcome Ankita to the group and are delighted to have you join us!
August 2025:
Congratulations to Aksha for passing her thesis proposal exam!
July 2025:
Jill gives a talk and Aksha presents a poster at the North American Solid State Chemistry Conference in Ames, Iowa.
June 2025:
Senior design with Lucas and Aidan (pictured with graduate student mentor, Aksha) wraps up! Thank you to our seniors for their hard work using computation and experiment to understand the reaction pathway to tantalum oxynitride.
May 2025:
Aksha presents on her work at the Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars Conference, and Asghar receives 3rd place for his SEM image of a block copolymer film in the Microscopy Artist Contest at Drexel Materials Characterization Day!
February 2025:
Dr. Wenderott has received two awards (Carleone Faculty Award and Longsview Fellowship) from Drexel University to support interdisciplinary research that investigates accelerating synthesis of mixed anion materials for energy and environmental applications and uses AI to support the creation of electronic lab notebook entries.
December 2024:
Celebrating passing candidacies and the end of the winter term!
December 2024:
Well done to our senior design team – Aidan and Lucas – on their quarterly update presentation! Their project, co-advised by Dr. Yong-Jie Hu, is looking into computational and experimental co-design of oxynitride materials.
October 2024:
Congratulations to Asghar and Aksha for passing their PhD candidacy exams!
September 2024:
Aksha and Asghar help lead the dessert science demo at MATE 100 to introduce incoming Drexel engineers to materials science and engineering.
September 2024:
FIMSL group members, joined by Prof. Yong-Jie Hu’s and Prof. Ania-Ariadna Baetica’s groups, enjoy a hiking outing at Valley Forge!
May 2024:
The first test of the ReactorX is complete! This attachment will enable our group to study reaction pathways of materials in situ using X-rays.
February 2024:
FIMSL group members help out at Philly Materials Day at Drexel which featured hands-on science activities for all ages!
January 2024:
Equipment unboxing and set-up continues in FIMSL. Another day, another giant box!
September 2023:
We welcome Aksha and Asghar to the group and are delighted to have you join us!