Reynolds Defends!20240209130949
Reynolds Defends!
Reynolds defended his dissertation, titled “Controlling excitons in van der Waals heterostructures composed of molecular semiconductors and 2D t...
Marta defends!20240111115424
Marta defends!
Marta defended her dissertation, titled “Host-guest mediated approaches for the synthesis of functional multicomponent nanostructures.” Sh...
Reynolds wins ARCS award!20230825150722
Reynolds wins ARCS award!
Reynolds was given an ARCS Chapter Scholar Award for his work on the synthesis of 2D semiconductors. This award came from the the Metro Washington Cha...
Tom is tenured!20230324142604
Tom is tenured!
Tom was awarded a promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! An accomplishment for Tom that reflects the work put in by students and postdocs and s...
Postdoc Positions available!20230228154500
Postdoc Positions available!
The Kempa Lab is hiring 2 postdocs for projects focused on nonlinear mechanics, single-photon emission, and energy storage in 2D crystals (atomic &...
Tom wins DARPA YFA!20220421115100
Tom wins DARPA YFA!
Tom was awarded the DARPA young faculty award (YFA) to fund the group’s research in multifunctional 2D frameworks. Several postdoc and PhD proje...
Ona wins GRFP!20220404120900
Ona wins GRFP!
Congratulations to Ona for winning the NSF GRFP! In addition to many activities outside the lab, Ona’s research will focus on engineering single...
Ben Defends!20211021150100
Ben Defends!
Ben successfully defended his thesis, “Synthesis of nanoparticle heterostructures via host-guest interactions!” Ben’s work establish...
Shreya wins PURA!20211019142127
Shreya wins PURA!
Shreya won a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA)! She will be using computational methods to study the growth of new TMD morphologies ...
Tom Featured in JHU Arts and Sciences Magazine!20210627135800
Tom Featured in JHU Arts and Sciences Magazine!
Our research in atomic and molecular 2D crystals is highlighted in the spring edition of the JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences magazine! In the ...