© Caruntu Group; Central Michigan University 2019
A warm welcome to Prabodha Mendis
and Suporna Paul, two new graduate
students who are the newest additions
to our group!
and Suporna Paul, two new graduate
students who are the newest additions
to our group!
Research in our group is directed towards the fundamental
aspects of the design and fabrication of nanoscale functional
materials with application in energy storage and conversion,
sensing, catalysis and spintronics. To this end, we exploit basic
concepts of colloidal chemistry, molecular self-assembly and
surface functionalization to design novel nanostructures with
controlled internal structure, chemical composition and selectable
topologies, such as colloidal nanocrystals, nanotubes and nanorods
and thin films.
We are particularly interested in the study of the ferroic
ordering in low dimensional metal oxides by combining different
diffraction, spectroscopy and microscopy tecniques. We are also
interested in assemblying nano-objects into hybrid hierarchical
structures such as multiferroic or polymer-ceramic
nanocomposites with selectable topologies, such as core-shell
nanoparticles, nanowire-nanotube hybrid arrays and multilayered
composites, their characterization and use as building blocks for
the fabrication of functional devices.
aspects of the design and fabrication of nanoscale functional
materials with application in energy storage and conversion,
sensing, catalysis and spintronics. To this end, we exploit basic
concepts of colloidal chemistry, molecular self-assembly and
surface functionalization to design novel nanostructures with
controlled internal structure, chemical composition and selectable
topologies, such as colloidal nanocrystals, nanotubes and nanorods
and thin films.
We are particularly interested in the study of the ferroic
ordering in low dimensional metal oxides by combining different
diffraction, spectroscopy and microscopy tecniques. We are also
interested in assemblying nano-objects into hybrid hierarchical
structures such as multiferroic or polymer-ceramic
nanocomposites with selectable topologies, such as core-shell
nanoparticles, nanowire-nanotube hybrid arrays and multilayered
composites, their characterization and use as building blocks for
the fabrication of functional devices.
October 2018
February 2019
CARUNTU Research Group
Nanostructured Materials For Energy Applications
May 2018
Our collaborative paper on 1D
magnetoelectric nanostructures has
been published in Scripta
Materialia.
magnetoelectric nanostructures has
been published in Scripta
Materialia.
August 2018
November 2018
Benard won for the second time in a
row the Best Poster Presentation
Award at the Michigan Microscopy
and Microanalysis Conference. This is
the 4th consecutive year that this
award goes to CMU and our research
group! Congratulations, Benard!
row the Best Poster Presentation
Award at the Michigan Microscopy
and Microanalysis Conference. This is
the 4th consecutive year that this
award goes to CMU and our research
group! Congratulations, Benard!
Tommaso’s research poster has been
selected for summer display at the
Museum of Cultural and Natural
History, being on of the best posters
presented at SCREE in 2018.
selected for summer display at the
Museum of Cultural and Natural
History, being on of the best posters
presented at SCREE in 2018.
Tommaso has successfully defended
his Ph. D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr.
Costanzo!
his Ph. D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr.
Costanzo!
September 2018
Our newest research paper on
multiferroic transition metal-doped
BaTiO3 colloidal nanocrystals has
been published in ACS Applied
Nanomaterials.
multiferroic transition metal-doped
BaTiO3 colloidal nanocrystals has
been published in ACS Applied
Nanomaterials.
Our tutorial paper on magneotelectric
nanocomposites was published as a
Feature Paper in Journal of Applied
Physics.
October 2017
