{"id":871,"date":"2013-11-11T01:21:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T01:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinitskii.com\/?page_id=871"},"modified":"2016-07-19T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T23:35:42","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/about-us\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-872 cool\" alt=\"About\" src=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-content\/uploads\/Other\/About.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are working on the chemical design of novel functional materials for applications in electronics, photonics, sensors and energy storage. Such materials include graphene, carbon nanotubes, inorganic nanowires, colloidal particles, macroporous oxides and some others. Our strategy is to control the structure and composition of these materials at nanoscale to define their properties.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate or postdoctoral student in my group can expect to receive training in\u00a0<strong>inorganic chemistry<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>materials science<\/strong>\u00a0with significant exposure to one or more of the following specialties:\u00a0<strong>low-dimensional nanomaterials<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes and graphene)<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>self-assembly techniques<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>chemical vapor deposition<\/strong>, and<strong>materials characterization techniques<\/strong>, such as\u00a0<strong>electron microscopy<\/strong>,<strong>atomic force microscopy<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>nanoscale device fabrication\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>electrical measurements<\/strong>.\u00a0Our laboratory is well equipped with excellent\u00a0<a title=\"Facilities\" href=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/research\/facilities\/\">Research Facilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate students:<\/strong>\u00a0Prospective graduate students are welcome to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:asinitskiy2@unl.edu\">e-mail<\/a>\u00a0Prof. Sinitskii for more information about ongoing research projects or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chem.unl.edu\/grad\/apply.shtml\">apply to the Chemistry Graduate Program<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Undergraduates:<\/strong>\u00a0Interested sophomores or juniors are very welcome to visit our lab and learn more about our research.<br \/>\n<strong>Postdoctoral Associates:<\/strong>\u00a0A postdoc position is <strong>now open<\/strong> for our graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) project. <a href=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/post-doc-position-in-synthetic-organic-chemistry\/\">Read more&#8230; <\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"Group members\" href=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/about-us\/group-members\/\"><strong>Group members<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a title=\"Research\" href=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/research\/\"><strong>Research<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a title=\"Publications\" href=\"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/research\/publications\/\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are working on the chemical design of novel functional materials for applications in electronics, photonics, sensors and energy storage. Such materials include graphene, carbon nanotubes, inorganic nanowires, colloidal particles, macroporous oxides and some others. Our strategy is to control the structure and composition of these materials at nanoscale to define their properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5qrjz-e3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871\/revisions\/1744"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chemweb.unl.edu\/sinitskii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}