• 06/06/2025    Chaoguo has passed the prelim exam! Congratulations! 
  • 06/04/2025    Dylan has passed the prelim exam! Congratulations! 
  • 05/19/2025    Welcome Drew Vargo to join our group as a 2025 REU student!
  • 05/05/2025    Congrats to Gina on winning the Mellon Fellowship!
  • 03/03/2025    Congrats to Jiaqi on getting the 2025 Wass Summer Research Fellowship!
  • 03/03/2025    Congrats to Jianyi on getting the 2025 Wass Summer Research Fellowship!
  • 02/03/2025 Our paper "Absence of Long-Range Magnetic Ordering in a Trirutile High-Entropy Oxide (Mn0.2Fe0.2Co0.2Ni0.2Cu0.2)Ta1.92O6-δ" has been accepted by Inorganic Chemistry! Congrats to Gina!
  • 12/16/2024    Welcome Chaoguo Wang to rejoin our lab as a PhD student! Chaoguo was an undergraduate researcher in our group.
  • 10/23/2024   Chaoguo and Gina's paper Evolution of Ferromagnetism and Electrical Resistivity in Sb-Doped Cr4PtGa17 has been accepted by the Journal of Alloys and Compounds! This is the work completed by Chaoguo when he was an undergraduate in the group. Great work!
  • 08/01/2024    Gina won the PQI Fellowship award. Congrats!!
  • 07/12/2024    Xin attended the "Neutrons and Complementary Techniques for Quantum Materials" workshop hosted at ORNL. Very enjoyable experience!
  • ​5/17/2024       Gina passed her comprehensive exam! She's now a PhD candidate! Congrats to Gina!
  • 05/13/2024     Welcome new undergraduate researchers, ​Graham Leavitt and Beck O'Brien, to our group!
  • 04/19/2024     Xin attended the NOBCChE Collaborative Spring Conference at Hampton University. It was a great experience meeting with faculty at Hampton chemistry and talk about DEI and research.
  • 04/17/2024     Xin gave a talk at PQI event 2024 about crystal-defect-controlled magnetism in quantum materials.
  • 04/02/2024     Gina received the travel award to the 2024 ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography. Congrats Gina!
  • 03/01/2024      Congrats to Jianyi on getting the 2024 Wass Summer Research Fellowship!
  • 01/31/2024      Our manuscript about Dy3Pt2Sb4.48 has been accepted by Inorganic Chemistry!
  • 10/17/2023    Xin gave an invited talk on the 80th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference. It was such a great experience to meet people who work on solid-state chemistry and quantum materials!
  • 10/03/2023    Xin gave an invited talk on the MS&T23 meeting in Columbus, Ohio and chaired the same session. 
  • 05/31/2023    Gina has passed her prelim exam! Congrats! 
  • 05/01/2023     Welcome a new undergraduate researcher, Jianyi Chen, to our group!
  • 04/05/2023    Xin gave a guest lecture at Hampton University about solid-state chemistry and quantum materials.
  • 03/02/2023    Congrats to Chaoguo on getting the 2023 Wass Summer Research Fellowship! He'll be working with us this summer.
  • 02/23/2023    Our research about quantum spin liquids is funded by Pitt Momentum Funds for a year! First fund! 
  • 01/13/2023    Welcome Elijah Worley to our lab! Elijah is a freshman at Pitt who joins us for the First Experience in Quantum (FEQ) program.
  • 12/19/2022    Welcome Gina Angelo to our lab! Gina is a first-year graduate student.
  • 10/27/2022    Welcome Chaoguo Wang to our lab! Chaoguo is an undergraduate student from Pitt who will graduate in 2024.
  • 09/14/2022    Xin gave a talk on PQI 2022 annual meeting. It was fun to know so many great colleagues who are working on different fields in Quantum Information Science.
  • 09/08/2022    Welcome Megan Stasik to our lab! Megan is an undergraduate student from Pitt who will graduate in 2023.
  • 08/22/2022    Our group website is finally published online.
  • 08/22/2022    One of our labs has done renovation! Can't wait to do some syntheses!
  • 07/29/2022    Xin just attended 2022 Solid State Chemistry Gordon Research Conference. It was very nice to meet so many excellent solid-state chemists there!
  • 03/31/2022    Xin accepted the offer from Pitt. What an exciting day!
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