April 2024: Sonjoy's recent work "Addressing Irreversibility and Structural Distortion in WS2 Inorganic Fullerene-Like Nanoparticles: Effects of Voltage Cutoff Experiments in Beyond Li+-Ion Storage Applications", a collaboration with Holon Institute of Technology in Israel has appreaed in ACS Omega journal. Congratulations to all.

April 2024: Collaborative work with University of Montpellier has appeared in the Chemistry of Materials journal. Congratulations to co-authors Bonito, Sonjoy and Shakir!

March 2024: Graduate student Paul Owerido attended the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) 50th convention in Atlanta, Georgia. 

March 2024: Graduate student Arijit Roy presented his work at the ACS Spring 2024 National meeting in New Orleans.

March 2024: Recent PhD/Postdoc from the lab Shakir Bin Mujib has accepted full time position at Intel Corp. in Oregon. Congratulations!

Feb 2024: Recent work on Hybrid HfC‐SiCN matrix for improved oxidation resistance of carbon fiber–reinforced mini‐composites has appeared in International Journal of Ceramic Engineering & Science. Congratulations to co-authors former UG Mohammed Rasheed and former PhD/postdoc Dr. Shakir. 

Jan 2024: Graduate student Arijit and postdoc Dr. Shakir presented their research at the ICACC conference in Florida. Singh delivered invited lecture.

Jan 2024: Congratulations to Lokesh Vendra (co-advised by Singh) on successfully defending PhD Thesis and securing research position at IRCER – Institute of research for ceramics in Limoges, France.  

Jan 2024: Recent PhD from the lab Sonjoy Dey and advisee from ASU Gerson Leonel have accepted fulltime position at Intel in Oregon. Congratulations!

Jan 2024: Congratulations to former UG student researcher Mohammed Rasheed on starting graduate studies (MS thesis) at Virginia Tech. 

Dec 2023: Congratulations UGs from our lab on being awarded the Outstanding Graduating Seniors in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering for Fall 2023 term--Mohammed Rasheed (outstanding senior award) and Porter Herold (most outstanding senior award). Each semester the department recognizes Outstanding Seniors. Faculty in the department nominate and vote on graduating seniors who they deem outstanding.

Dec 2023: Singh delivered plenary lecture at the iConFIRM 2023 : International Conference on Fundamental and Industrial Research in Materials at IIT-Ropar, India. (virtual/remote)

Dec 2023: Graduate student Sonjoy presented research (hybrid) at the MRS meeting in Boston.

Nov 2023: UG Mohammed Rasheed presented research at the ASME-IMECE in New Orleans.

Nov 2023: Graduate student Sonjoy's recent work has appeared in Batteries journal.

Oct 2023: Graduate student Sonjoy successfully defended PhD thesis. Congrats!

Oct 2023: Graduate student Sonjoy presented research at the SES conference in Minnesota.

Oct 2023: Collaborative work with IIT Madras has appeared in RSC Advances journal. Congrats Lokesh!

Oct 2023: UG Mohammed Rasheed  and Graduate student Sonjoy presented research at the MS&T meeting in Columbus Ohio. 

Aug 2023: Former PhD student Davi Soares has accepted faculty position in the ECE department at Wichita State University. LINK

Aug 2023: Graduate student Sonjoy and postdoc Shakir presented research at the ACS meeting in San Francisco.

Aug 2023: Shakir's recent work on precursor for preparation of HfO2/HfC ceramic has appeared in "The International Journal of Ceramic Engineering and Science", congrats!

July 2023: Congrats to Graduate student Sonjoy for publication of works involving 2-D cation substituted TMDs in Nanotechnology journal.

July 2023: Singh is co-author on a collaborative work involving preparation and HT-calorimetry of metal-modified PDC materials with ASU in the journal "International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology".

June/July 2023: Singh co-organized NSF PIRE Ceramics workshop at Technical University Darmstadt Guesthouse in Austria. LINK

June 2023: Singh delivered keynote lecture at the ISIEM conference in Montpellier, France. LINK

June 2023: Singh is co-author on a collaborative work on HT-calorimetry of PDC materials with ASU in the journal "Open Ceramics".

April 2023: Singh is co-author on a collaborative work on SiCNO HT-calorimetry with ASU and Sorbonne University in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

April 2023: UG student researcher and former PIRE student Mabel Anstine recognized as Outstanding Graduating Senior by the mechanical and nuclear engineering department for Spring 2023 semester--Congratulations.

April 2023: Singh delivered MSE Department invited lecture at Texas A&M University.

April 2023: Graduate student Sonjoy and Dr. Shakir presented their research on 2-D materials at the MRS Spring meeting in San Francisco.

April 2023: Singh delivered invited lecture (virtual) at Arizona State University.

March 2023: Congrats to former visiting student Heloisa Ramlow--recent collaborative work with UFSC-Brazil and U-Bayreuth-Germany published in Open Ceramics journal.

March 2023: Singh delivered invited lecture (virtual) at the Indo-German Science and Technology Center (IGSTC) workshop. The workshop was organized by some of the NSF project affiliates from IIT-M in India and U-Bayreuth in Germany.

March 2023: Congrats to Graduate student Sonjoy for publication of works involving sodium and potassium-ion batteries in Nanomaterials and ACS Omega journals.

Feb 2023: Congrats to Murilo Amaral [visiting PhD student from University of Campinas co-advised] for his work appearing in Journal of Physics: Materials and Journal of Energy Chemistry. 

Jan 2023: Congrats to Lokesh [co-advised with IIT-M] for works involving SiOC/TiOC published in International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology.

Dec 2022: Recent work from our lab has appeared in ACS Omega journal. Congratulations to UG student Mohammed who is co-author on the journal article.

Nov 2022: Four UG students--Alison, Caitlin, Jessica and Mohammed presented their research at the Fall 2022 Undergraduate Research Showcase, organized by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry. 

Nov 2022: Graduate student Sonjoy presented research at the MRS, Fall meeting in Boston.

Nov 2022: Singh delivered keynote lecture (virtual) at the International Conference on Advanced Materials, Metallurgy and Manufacturing (ICAMMM-2022) held at PEC, Chandigarh, India. 

Nov 2022: PhD students Murilo, Sonjoy and Shakir (now post-doc) and UG student Mohammed Rashid delivered several poster presentations at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Columbus, OH

Nov 2022: Graduate student Lokesh [co-advised with IIT-M] presented poster at the International Symposium on Accelerated Materials Development and Additive Manufacturing: Scientific and Technological Perspectives (AMDAM) and the 76th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals at Hyderabad, India.

Oct 2022: Singh co-organized a symposium [Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials] at the American Ceramic Society's MS&T conference in Pittsburgh, PA. LINK

Oct 2022: Graduate students Shakir and Sonjoy presented their research at the American Ceramic Society's MS&T conference in Pittsburgh, PA.

Sept 2022: Graduate student Lokesh [co-advised with IIT-M] delivered Keynote lecture at the MSE congress in Darmstadt Germany.

Sept 2022: Singh was invited speaker [via Teams] at the European Materials Research Society Meeting (E-MRS), Poland.

August 2022: Singh organized NSF PIRE international workshop at the Darmstader Haus in Hirschegg, Austria on topics related to high temperature ceramic composites. The workshop was held in conjunction MATCOM-COM-mat project at Technical University--Darmstadt and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. LINK

August 2022: Recent PhD from our lab Shakir takes 2nd place at Engineering Ceramics Division (ECD), American Ceramic Society (#ACerS) poster competition at the 46th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. Congrats! 

July 2022: Congratulations to Shakir Bin Mujib, fresh PhD from our lab. Made important contributions to development of ceramic composite materials comprising of quaternary covalent ceramics, their mechanical properties and use in battery applications. Author of 12 journal papers. 

July 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Shakir Bin Mujib and collaborators from ASU, Prof Alex Navrotsky and Gerson Leonel. Recent work on high temperature calorimetry of silicon carbide fibers published in International Journal of Ceramic Engineering and Science. Open access LINK

July 2022: Congratulations to visiting graduate student Carla Real. Recent work on nanostructured niobium pentoxide electrode for sodium ion capacitors and batteries published in Journal of Energy Storage. Impact factor 6.583. LINK

May 2022: PhD student Shakir Bin Mujib awarded the "Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Outstanding GRA award" for Spring 2022. Congratulations!

May 2022: Congratulations Maren Ellis (PIRE summer scholar) and Elena Mannebach on being awarded the Outstanding Graduating Seniors in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering for Spring 2022 term! Each semester the department recognizes Outstanding Seniors. Faculty in the department nominate and vote on graduating seniors who they deem outstanding. LINK

April 2022: OIP Magazine published an article highlighting international student visits to our lab. Singh lab has hosted two students from Brazil (UNICAMP and UFSC) and one from India (IIT-Madras).

Mar 2022: Spring break--Singh lab hosted two UG students Ms. Takhya Holley and Ms. Hannah Hayes from University of Texas for experiments related to fabrication of ceramic fibers and composites.

Feb 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Sonjoy. Recent work on MoSe2 published in Nanomaterials journal. Impact factor 5.076. LINK

Jan 2022: We welcome short term visiting scholar/PhD student Heloisa Ramlow from UFSC-Florianopolis, Brazil.

Jan 2022: Congratulations to Sophia Justus--headed to Black & Veatch and Keegan Thomas--headed to Honeywell.

Dec 2021: Congratulations to Sophia Justus and Keegan Thomas--two UG student researchers from our lab were among outstanding graduating seniors for Fall 2021 semester. LINK

Dec 2021: Collaborative work on MXenes with Dong Lin published in Advanced Materials Journal.

Nov 2021: Congratulations to graduate student Shakir. Recent work on silicon oxycarbide ceramic fibers for batteries and super capacitors was published in Royal Society of Chemistry Advances journal. Impact factor 3.36. LINK

Nov 2021: Graduate student Shakir and Singh co-authored a perspective article on Polymer Derived Ceramics for Electrochemical Energy Storage in the International Journal of Ceramics Science and Engineering (Open Access peer-reviewed broad-scope, interdisciplinary journal). LINK

Oct 2021: Graduate student Shakir and Singh were awarded the Nanomaterials & Energy 2021 award by the Institution of Civil Engineers in the UK. Award ceremony held at the ICE in Westminster, London.

Oct 2021: Singh co-organized two symposia at the American Ceramic Society's MS&T conference in Columbus, Ohio.

Sept 2021: Recent work on transitional metal dichalcogenide WTe2 for potassium ion battery was published in Nanotechnology journal. Congrats Davi Soares! LINK

Sept 2021: Singh was awarded the Frankenhoff Outstanding Researcher Award by the College of Engineering at Kansas State University.  

July 2021: Singh organized international workshop on high temperature materials and ceramic composites. LINK

June 2021: Singh's ACS Nano paper on MoS2 electrode for Na+ batteries reaches 1000 google scholar citations.

May 2021: Congratulations to Davi Soares, Fifth PhD from our lab--Davi Soares. Made important contributions to TMD materials especially WTe2. Author of 8 journal papers & 2 book chapters

April 2021: Dr. Singh promoted to the rank of Full professor. LINK

March 2021: Patent on MoS2/graphene electrodes for sodium ion batteries awarded. LINK

March 2021: Recent work entitled, “Additive Manufacturing of Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems Electrodes” to appear in Advanced Energy & Sustainability Research journal. LINK

February 2021: Former PhD student from our group Dr. Romil Bhandavat awarded the Intel Achievement Award (company’s highest honor) for the year 2020.

February 2021: Congratulations to PhD student Shakir Bin Mujib on winning 2nd position in the Graduate Student Poster Competition at the 45th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC2021) conference.

January 2021: Congratulations to Zhongkan Ren. Recent work on high temperature ceramic fibers published in Materials | An Open Access Journal. Impact factor 3.057l.

November 2020: Congratulations to PhD student Davi Soares on winning 1st position in the Material Advantage Graduate Student Poster Competition #MST 2020 #ACerS conference. LINK

October 2020: Congratulations to Zhongkan Ren. Recent work on high temperature ceramic fibers published in RSC-Advances journal.

September 2020: Recent work on Design, Characterization, and Application of Elemental 2D Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage appeared in RSC journal. Congrats Shakir, Zhongkan and Davi! LINK

August 2020: Recent work on WTe2 layered material published in Nanotechnology journal. Congrats Davi! LINK

August 2020: Congratulations to Zhongkan Ren for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

August 2020: UG students Maren and Porter presented their research at International (virtual) workshop. LINK to Maren and Porter’s video presentation.

August 2020: Singh organized 3rd Annual International (virtual) workshop on PDC and ceramic composite materials. LINK

August 2020: Graduate students Zhongkan, Shakir and Davi delivered poster and oral presentations at the ACS Fall 2020 National Meeting & Exposition.

August 2020: Graduate student Davi presented his collaborative research MXene at the MXene 2020 virtual conference.

June 2020: Singh awarded the College of Engineering Dean’s Award of Excellence in Research.

May 2020: Graduate student Davi Soares awarded the Dr. Pau-Chang Lu Graduate Scholarship and Naim Z. and Beverly J. Azer Mechanical Engineering Graduate Scholarship. Congrats!

April 2020: Recent work on exfoliated 2D materials for anticorrosion coatings appeared in RSC journal. Congrats Shakir and Zhongkan! Weblink

April 2020: TMDs beyond MoS2 published in a Wiley journal. Congrats Davi and Santanu! Weblink

April 2020: Recent work on TMDs beyond MoS2published in a Wiley journal. Congrats Davi and Santanu!Weblink

March 2020: Singh and team awarded patent on work involving flexible silicon oxy-carbide based electrodes. Weblink

March 2020: Singh was invited speaker at the “New ceramic electrode materials for rechargeable lithium and sodium-ion batteries” webinar organized jointly by the Materials Research Society and the American Ceramic Society. Weblink

January 2020: Singh to serve as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

January 2020: Davi, Shakir, and Zhongkan delivered Oral and Poster presentations at the 44th ICACC conference in FL.

January 2020: Dipta Sarkar defended his PhD thesis. Headed to Intel Corp. Congratulations.

January 2020: Singh visited IIT Madras and delivered invited lecture on polymer-derived ceramics for energy storage at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar. Thanks to our hosts professor Ravi Kumar and Ravi Mohan Prasad.

January 2020: New journal paper on bio-mass carbon for electrochemical energy storage in Nanomaterials and Energy journal. Congrats Shakir LINK

December 2019: New journal paper on organosilicon polymer functionalized MoS2 for Sodium Ion Batteries published in Nanotechnology journal. journal. Congratulations Davi! LINK

December 2019: New journal paper on MnO2 electrospun fibers for asymmetric supercapacitors in Nanotechnology journal. Congrats Sharif and Milan LINK

December 2019: Singh delivered invited lectures on Rechargeable Batteries and PDCs at the University of Campinas and UFSC.

November 2019: PhD students Davi, Shakir, Tyler and Dipta delivered several oral and poster presentations at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Salt Lake City, UT: LINK

October 2019: Read current graduate student Shakir and former student Riccardo’s new journal article on electrospun ceramic fibers for energy storage here: LINK

October 2019: Read graduate student Zhongkan Renճ new journal article on #Ceramic fibers here: LINK

September 2019: Graduate students Shakir and Zhongkan presented their research at the Materials Science and Technology Conference.LINK

September 2019: Singh organized symposium on Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials Metal and Seminconductor Nanostructures at the Materials Science and Technology MS&T Conference. LINK

August 2019: Singh delivered invited lecture on TMD battery electrodes at the American Chemical Society National meeting in San Diego, CA. LINK

August 2019: New journal paper on TMD materials for Sodium Ion Batteries and Supercapacitors published in Royal Society Open Science journal. LINK

August 2019: Collaborative work "1D thermal characterization of micro/nano-cantilevers for Suspended ThermoReflectance measurements," in AIP Advances. Congratulations to graduate student Dipta. Read here: LINK

July 2019: Singh traveled to Lehigh University and Drexel University for ongoing collaboration with Professor Himanshu Jain on PDCs and new collaboration with Professor Yury Gogotsi and Professor Ekaterina Pomerantseva (Katya) on 2-D materials, respectively.

July 2019: Singh organized 2nd International NSF PIRE workshop on PDC materials in Boulder, Colorado. Read press release here. LINK

June 2019: New journal paper on 2D materials and sodium ion batteries accepted for publication. Congrats to graduate students and former postdoc for handling the manuscript. LINK

June 2019: Singh traveled to DC to serve on a research panel and research meetings with program officers and faculty from Virginia Tech Falls Church campus.

June 2019: Undergraduate student Sophia Justus is visiting University of Montpellier in France for 7 weeks to conduct research on advanced ceramic materials for aerospace applications.

May 2019: Singh visited University of Cologne at the invitation of Prof. Mathur to review their Euro ENHANCE Horizon 2020 project and deliver invited lecture on polymer-derived ceramics at the workshop.

May 2019: Singh visited Alexandra Navrotsky Institute for Experimental Thermodynamics, Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University to deliver invited lecture on advanced materials for energy applications.

May 2019: Carla Real and Zhongkan Ren attended the University of Nebraska Lincoln Nanotech Minicourse on Nanotechnology, May 13-15, 2019.

May 2019: Federico Toigo visiting our lab for research on additive manufacturing of Polymer derived ceramics and energy storage. Federico is a MS student in Professor Colombo’s group at University of Padova, Italy.

April 2019: Carla Real visiting our lab for research on electrospinning and supercapacitors. Carla is a PhD student in Professor Zaninճ group at University of Campinas, Brazil.

April 2019: Singh visited CTI Renato Archer for on-going collaboration with Dr. Mazonճ group.

March 2019: Read our new article on #Ceramic #Matrix #Composites or CMCs in April issue of the American Ceramic Society Bulletin. LINK

February 2019: Hosted Dr. Allison Horner of Spirit AeroSystems Inc. to discuss project opportunities in Ceramic Matrix Composites.

February 2019: Hosted NSF PIRE project partner professor Chrystelle Salameh of University of Montpellier to discuss collaboration on UG student research projects.

January 2019: Singh delivered invited lecture on polymer-derived ceramic fibers at the ICACC conference in Florida.

January 2019: Singh visited IIT-Madras at the invitation of Professor Ravikumar to start new collaborations (student exchange) in the field of polymer derived ceramics.

January 2019: First journal article on 2-D materials accepted for publication in ACS journal. LINK

December 2018: Research highlighted in CTT American Ceramic Society Bulletin. ԓuper turbinesՠand international study opportunities focus of NSF grant led by ACerS members. Link: https://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/aeronautics-space/super-turbines-and-international-study-opportunities-focus-of-nsf-grant-led-by-acers-members

November 2018: Press release on first year of NSF PIRE project. Link: https://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement.php?id=46385

October 2018: Singh awarded patent on Silicon-Based Polymer-Derived Ceramic Composites Comprising h-BN Nanosheets. Link: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2017/0144935.html  

October 2018: Singh co-organized symposium on Nanomaterials (Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials)at the Materials Science and Technology Conference in Columbus OH. LINK

October 2018: Singh attended tutorial on Additive Manufacturing (Additive Manufacturing - Its Challenges for Failure Analysis and Design) at the MS&T conference. IMG_7950.jpg

September 2018: Singh delivered keynote lecture at the Materials Science and Engineering 2018 (MSE) Congress at TU-Darmstadt in Germany.

September 2018: Singh delivered invited lecture at the Energy Harvesting workshop at Penn State Navy Yard.

July/August 2018: Undergrad Isabella Cesarone and Stacia Satzler traveled to University of Padova and ISTEC lab to learn 3-D printing of ceramic matrix composites.

July 2018: Singh delivered invited lecture at the 12th International Conference on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications (CMCEE 2018), Singapore, July 2018.

July 2018: Singh organized first NSF PIRE Polymer Derived Ceramics workshop at K-State campus.

June 2018: Singh hosted Dr. Mazon of CTI Renato Archer institute in Brazil for collaborative research on bio-mass derived carbon.

June 2018: Singh delivered invited lecture at the NSF CAREER workshop at Texas A&M University.

June 2018: Undergrad Isabella Cesarone traveled to Sorbonne University and University of Limoges for summer research abroad.

May 2018: Dr. Santanu Mukherjee delivered lecture at the ECS meeting in Seattle. UG Diana Arreola presented poster at the ECS Meeting in Seattle.

Mar 2018: Singh awarded patent on a new kind of polysilazane-based precursor for making high temperature ceramic.

January/February 2018: Zhongkan Ren joins our group. Singh attends PIRE kick-off meeting in Florida. Dr. Franchin, Ceramic Additive Manufacturing experts visits our lab.

December 2017: Singh delivered invited lecture at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston, MA.

November 2017: Graduate student Abigail Weaver headed to Honeywell, Kansas City. Congrats!

September 2017: National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant awarded as lead institution. LINK

September 2017: Singh delivered invited lectures at the Materials Research Society Meeting in Gramado (Brazil) and School of Mechanical Engineering at University of Campinas (Brazil).

August 2017: Santanu Mukherjee joins the lab as postdoc associate.

July 2017: Singh delivered lectures at the European Ceramic Society Meeting in Budapest (Hungary) and Technical University Darmstadt (Germany).

July 2017: Our recent work highlighted in ASME Mechanical Engineer magazine July 2017 issue.

June 2017: Singh signed MoU with UNESP: Cmpus de Araraquara - Instituto de Qumica, SP, Brazil on student exchange.

June 2017: Singh delivered invited lecture at the Chemistry Department at Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar) in Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil

June 2017: Singh delivered invited lecture at the UNESP: Cmpus de Araraquara - Instituto de Qumica, SP, Brazil

June 2017: Singh delivered invited lecture at the The 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.

June 2017: Singh co-organized ғ4: Polymer-Derived Ceramics (PDCs) and CompositesӠsymposia at the The 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA. LINK

May 2017: Graduate student Monsur Abass is headed to Intel, Hillsboro. Congrats!

April 2017: Graduate student Monsur Abass presented three posters at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.

April 2017: Graduate student Monsur Abass wins Technical Poster Competition at National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) 43rd Annual Convention, Kansas City, KS.

March 2017: Graduate student Monsur Abass receives Graduate Student Council Travel Award for Materials Research Society Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.

February 2017: Graduate student Monsur Abass receives travel grant from Ras Al Khaimah Center for Advanced Materials to attend International Workshop on Advanced Materials in UAE. Monsur Abass presented his research at the IWAM meeting. LINK

January 2017: Singh receives Harold O. and Jane C. Massey Neff Professorship in Mechanical Engineering.

December 2016: Graduate student Abigail Weaver successfully defended her M.S. thesis, congrats!

November 2016: Graduate student Monsur Abass successfully defended his M.S. thesis, congrats!

September 2016: G. Singh delivered invited lecture at the Materials Research Society Meeting in Campinas, Brazil (B-MRS, SBPmat-2016). LINK

September 2016: G. Singh chaired session on 2-D nanomaterials (SYMPOSIUM A - 2D Advanced Materials:Carbon/Graphene and NanoComposites, SESSION A.OR8) at the Materials Research Society Meeting in Campinas, Brazil (B-MRS, SBPmat-2016). LINK

August 2016: G. Singh delivered talk at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. LINK

August 2016: G. Singh delivered invited lecture on exfoliation of transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets for energy applications at the ACS-National Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. LINK

August 2016: Our recent work on polysiloxane supercapacitors is published in Royal Society for Chemistry, RSC-Advances journal (Impact factor: 3.84). LINK

August 2016: John Petrovich (visiting REU student from U-Massachusetts Amherst) presented his research at the NSF-REU poster session. PHOTO

June/July 2016: G. Singh co-organized a symposium on PDCs at the 9th International Conference on High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites and Global Forum on Advanced Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Development 2016 in Toronto, Canada  

June 2016: G. Singh delivered talk on boron nitride based thermal absorber coatings for high power laser radiometry at GFMAT-HTCMC meeting in Toronto, Canada.

June 2016: G. Singh organized outreach activity (Nanoengineering track) for middle/high school female students. PHOTO.jpg

June 2016: Our recent work is published in Royal Society for Chemistry, RSC-Advances journal (Impact factor: 3.84). LINK

May 2016: Our recent work on supercapacitors is published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C (Impact Factor 7.4). Postdoc Dr. Shareef is first author. LINK

May 2016: M.S. Student Asrar Ahmed awarded Dr. Pau-Chang Lu Graduate Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering.

April 2016: UG student Victoria Voigt presented two posters at the MRS Spring meeting in Pheonix, AZ. LINK

March 2016: Our recent work is published in Nature Communications journal. LINK

March 2016: Postdoc Associate Dr. Shareef delivered three talks at the American Physical Society (APS)-March Meeting in Baltimore, MD.  Photo LINK

February 2016: G. Singh delivered invited talk at the TMS 145th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in symposia on Metal and Polymer Matrix Composites II ѠPolymer Matrix Composites.   

February 2016: Postdoc Associate Dr. Shareef receives full-scholarship to attend the 8th Annual International Workshop on Advanced Materials in UAE. LINK

January 2016: G. Singh delivered invited talk at the EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES SYMPOSIUM - Carbon Nanostructures and 2D Materials, and Composites at the 40th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC-2016).  

December 2015: UG researcher Kelsey Harlow takes 3rd position at the College of Engineering poster session.

November 2015: G. Singh delivered invited talk at the Composites at Lake Louise conference in Canada. Photo1, Photo2, Photo3

October 2015: Dr. Shareef (PhD, IIT-Madras) joins our lab as postdoctoral associate.

October 2015: UG student Allison Sommer presented her research at the GrapheneCanada conference in Montreal, Canada.  LINK

October 2015: G. Singh delivered invited talk at the MS&T 2015 conference in Columbus, OH. Track title: Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials for Alternative Energy. 

October 2015: G. Singh organized a symposium at the MS&T 2015 conference in Columbus, OH. Track title: Nanomaterials: Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials  G. Singh attended a symposium on Advances in Ceramics, Glasses, and Composites by Women, their Mentors and their Mentees at the MS&T 2015 conference in Columbus, OH.

September 2015: G. Singh to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of Ԏanomaterials and NanotechnologyՍ journal. LINK

September 2015: G. Singh chaired session on Applications of Polymer Derived Ceramics and Composite Fibers at the 11th International Conference of Pacific Rim Ceramic Societies (PacRim-11) in Jeju, South Korea. LINK

September 2015: G. Singh delivered invited talk at the 11th International Conference of Pacific Rim Ceramic Societies (PacRim-11) in Jeju, South Korea. LINK

August 2015: G. Singh to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of the American Ceramic Society Bulletin. LINK

August 2015: G. Singh featured as subject area expert in alternative energy by the United States Department of Defense. LINK PHOTO

August 2015: Lamuel David, recent PhD from our lab headed to the Energy and Transportation Sciences Division at the Oak Ridge National Lab. Congrats Lamuel!

July 2015: Uriel Barrera, UG researcher from our lab headed to Dow Chemicals. Congrats Uriel!

July 2015: NSF REU student from Syracuse University, Harrison Gunn presented poster at the REU poster session at K-State student union. PHOTO

July 2015: Singh delivered invited talk at the NIST Nanotube Bolometer workshop in Boulder, Colorado. LINK

July 2015: The United States Department of Defense publishes ҳpotlightӠarticle on our research on 2-D materials for energy storage. Link:

June 2015: Undergrads visit University of Kansas for Raman and Focused Ion Beam microscope training. KU_raman_visit.JPG KU_FIB_visit.JPG

June 2015: G. Singh delivers seminar at the CMCEE meeting in Vancouver, Canada. CMCEE_2015.JPG

June 2015: Organized outreach activity  for High School Female students (8 students attended the workshop). EXCITE_2015.jpg

May 2015: Organized outreach activity (Engineering Education Experience, E-3) for High School Science Teachers (27 teachers attended the workshop). E3_Teachers_2015.jpg

May 2015: Harrison Gunn from Syracuse University, joins our lab as NSF REU student for summer 2015.

May 2015: Allison Sommer takes 2nd place at the Spring 2015 K-State Undergraduate Research Poster Forum for her work on graphene oxide. Photo.jpg

April 2015: G. Singh delivered invited talk at the National Science Foundation CAREER Workshop in Boston.

April 2015: Our recent work on MoS2 paper battery electrode has been highlighted in NSF Science360 as the Top Story.  

April 2015: Our recent work on MoS2 paper battery electrode has been highlighted in IEEE Spectrum magazine. 

April 2015: Our recent work on MoS2 paper battery electrode has been highlighted in Materials Today. LINK

April 2015: Our recent work on 2-D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) published in Scientific Reports journal. 

April 2015: Lamuel David successfully defended his PhD thesis. Photo.jpg

April 2015: Delivered 5 presentations at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA. 

April 2015: G. Singh receives Research Proposal Teamwork Award from Kansas State University. Photo1.jpg Photo2.jpg

March 2015: G. Singhճ interview in TheAsianAge and DeccanChronicle newspaper. PDF LINK

February 2015: G. Singh receives tenure. LINK

February 2015: G. Singh delivers invited talk at the Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy conference in South Korea.

February 2015: G. Singh delivers invited talk in the Physics department.

January 2015: G. Singh receives NSF CAREER award.

December 2014: Article accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry-C. 

December 2014: Recent work on graphene oxide/Na-ion battery highlighted in a press release (Sciencedaily, PhysOrg). LINK

December 2014: Graduate student Lamuel David delivered 3 talks at the MRS Fall meeting in Boston, MA.

October 2014: G. Singh organized a symposium at the MS&T 2014 conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Track title: Nanomaterials: Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials. 

September 2014: Article accepted for publication in ACS-AMI journal. 

July 2014: G. Singh delivered invited talk at the CMC РEngineCeramics meeting at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

June 2014: G. Singh and PhD student Lamuel David organized day-long ҅xploring Science, Technology, and EngineeringӠ(NanoEngineering-Track) activity for 10 High School Female students from Kansas, Nebraska and Arkansas. Excite_2014.JPG LINK

May 2014: Organized Ҏano and Micro Engineering ResearchӠ(E-3 Teacherճ workshop) activity for High School Science Teachers. PHOTO_E3_2014.jpg

May 2014: Graduate student Lamuel David awarded the Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant for 2013-2014. PHOTO.jpg

April 2014: Organized Ҽspan class=SpellE>NanoEngineeringӠoutreach activity for 42 high school students from Seaman High School, Topeka. PHOTO_1.jpg

March 2014: Graduate student Lamuel publishes his work on optical and thermal damage resistance of Graphene/CNT coatings in Scientific Reports journal. 

March 2014: Graduate student Lamuel David presented his PhD research at the APS Meeting in Denver, CO. 

January 2014: Graduate student Lamuel publishes his PhD research in ACS Nano journal.

Graduate student Lamuel David delivers four presentations at the 38th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites.

December 2013: Graduate student Lamuel David presented his research at the MRS meeting in Boston, MA.

December 2013: UG student Erin Black presented a research poster at the ASME-IMECE in San Diego, CA.

November 2013: Graduate student Deepu Asok successfully defended his Masterճ report (Title: Study of Si(Al)CN Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Composite as a High Temperature Thermal Absorber Coating Material).

November 2013: G. Singh delivered a seminar at the Nanotechnology for Defense conference in Tucson, AZ. LINK

October 2013: Organized and Chaired session at the MS&T 2013 in Montreal, Canada. Track title: Nanomaterials: Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials. 

August 2013: Awarded NSF grant to study thermal properties of molecular precursor derived ceramics.

June 2013: G. Singh gave a research seminar at the PACRIM-2013 conference in San Diego. 

June 2013: Article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry-C. LINK 

May 2013: G. Singh to serve on the Editorial Board of Nature-Scientific Reports journal. LINK 

April 2013: Organized Ҽspan class=SpellE>NanoEngineeringӠevent for high school students (Seaman High School, Topeka, KS). 42 students attended the event.

April 2013: Research featured in Ceramic Tech Today (american ceramic society). LINK  

April 2013: Our recent work on Si(B)CN/CNT radiation absorber coatings highlighted in the NIST Tech Beat. LINK 

April 2013: First PhD student (Dr. Romil Bhandavat) selected for the Kansas State University Graduate Award for Academics, congratulations Romil. PHOTO

March 2013: Article published in an ACS journal. LINK 

March 2013: Romil’s farewell dinner. GROUP PHOTO

March 2013: Professor G.P. ҂udӠPeterson stopped-by our lab. LINK

March 2013: Graduate student Lamuel David presented his PhD research at the APS Meeting in Baltimore. 

March 2013: First graduate student Romil successfully defended his PhD thesis (Title: Molecular Precursor derived SiBCN/CNT and SiOC/CNT Composite Nanowires For Energy Based Applications) LINK. Headed to Intel Corp. (D1D Ramp, Logic Development Center, Hillsboro, OR). Congratulations Romil!

February 2013: Recent work highlighted in a California weekly. LINK

January 2013: Our recent work on graphene based battery anodes has been highlighted in IEEE Spectrum 

January 2013: Our recent work on layered nanomaterials for rechargeable batteries has been highlighted in various online news portals including R&D MAGAZINE, GRAPHENE TIMES, NEWSWISE, SCIENCEDAILY, PHYSORG, NANOWERK and others.

December 2012: Graduate student Lamuel publishes his first journal article on rapid synthesis of graphene films and their electrochemical characterization in the ACS-Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal. LINK

December 2012: Graduate student Romil writes a review article on PDC-based Li-ion battery anodes. LINK

October 2012: Graduate students (Romil and Lamuel) presented their recent work at the MS&T 2012 conference.

October 2012: Graduate student (Romil) publishes in ACS-Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal. LINK

August 2012: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Slideshare. LINK 

31st May 2012: Organized Engineering Education Experience (E3) Workshop (Nanotechnology track) for High School Teachers.

30th May 2012: Organized 'Engineering and Science Summer Institute' nano engineering track for high school students.

May 2012: Graduate students (Romil and  Lamuel) publish in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

May 2012: Undergraduate student Saksham Pahwa visiting K-State from National Institute of Technology Surathkal (India) to learn various nanocomposite synthesis techniques.

March/April 2012: Graduate student presents his research at the APS (Boston) and MRS (San Francisco) meetings. 

February 2012: Research featured on Kansas State and NSF website. NSF Website, NEWSWISE, AZO-NANO, PHYSORG, NANOWERK

Graduate student (Romil) publishes in Journal of the American Ceramic Society. LINK 

Graduate student (Romil) publishes in ACS-Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal. LINK

January 2012: Graduate student (Romil and co-authors Lamuel and Uriel) gave three talks at the 36th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites at Daytona Beach, FL.

January 2012: Graduate student presented a poster at the NSF-EPSCoR Conference in Wichita, Kansas.

November 2011: Lamuel David has successfully defended his MS thesis.

October 2011: Co-organized and Chaired session at the MS&T 2011 in Columbus, OH. Track: Controlled Processing of Nanoparticle-Based Materials and Nanostructured Films: Low Dimensional Nanomaterials. Graduate students Romil Bhandavat and Lamuel David gave two presentations on their recent work on polymer-derived ceramics.

July 2011: Organized Ԏanotechnology-Planet-Keepers event for middle school students (17 students attended). PHOTO

June 2011: Awarded NSF-Summer Institute Faculty Fellowship; attended NSF-Energy manufacturing workshop in Chicago.

June 2011: Organized Ceramics-Nanoengineering-Engineering and Science Summer Institute event for high school students. LINK.

May 2011: Awarded Kansas-EPSCoR grant.

May 2011: Gurpreet Singh served as reviewer and panelist in a NSF-CMMI program.

Gurpreet Singh to serve as Associate Editor for Ԏanomaterials and EnergyՠJournal. Link for article submission.

April 2011: Gurpreet Singh served as panelist in a NSF-CMMI program.

March 2011: Dr. Zhaohui Zhong from University of Michigan visited our lab and gave an invited talk in the MNE seminar series.

March 2011: Dr. Andras Kis visited our lab and discussed his work on MoS2 transistors.

January 2011: Session Chair at the 5th International Symposium on Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology: Development and Applications Nanotubes, Nanorods, Nanowires and Other One-dimensional Structures, Daytona Beach FL.

26th January 2011: Invited Talk, at the 35th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites ғynthesis, Characterization and Testing of Polymer-derived Ceramic Composite Nanowires (Invited)

19th January 2011: Oral presentation (titled: Analysis of Si(B)CN Nanowires) by graduate student Romil Bhandavat at the Electronic Materials and Applications Conference (EMA 2011), Orlando FL.

November 2010: Automated APCVD nanofabrication furnace (FirstNano equipments, NIST) is installed.

October 2010: Co-organizer and Session Chair at MS&T 2010 in Houston, TX. Track: Controlled Processing of Nanoparticle-Based Materials and Nanostructured Films: Low Dimensional Nanomaterials I.

July 2010: Gurpreet Singh receives Big 12 Faculty Fellowship (2010).

Summer 2010: Organized ESSI and Excite events (NanoEngineering track) for high school and middle school students from KS and neighboring states.

11/18/2009: Invited Talk, Chemical Eng. Seminar Series Ҏanowire Based Devices for Sensing and Energy Generation

10/29/2009: Co-organizer and Session Chair at MS&T 2009 in Pittsburgh. Track: Controlled Processing of Nanoparticle-Based Materials and Nanostructured Films: Low Dimensional Nanomaterials I.

09/25/2009: Invited Talk, Physics Condensed Matter Seminar Series ҆abrication and Testing of Nanoscale Devices

MEDIA (Prior to K-State)

Nanowerk published an article cutting edge nanotechnology 18 Feb. 2009.

Nanotechweb/ IOP published an article ҃NT cheese wire cuts bio-samples to size 12 Feb. 2009.

Nanotechweb/ IOP published an article Ҍaser light cleans up nanotubes 21 Aug. 2007.

Science News published an article, nanocheese slicer, 16 Dec. 2006.

CBC News published Ҽspan class=SpellE>Nanoknife on cutting edge of cell research November 23, 2006.