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The Ardo Group is a Diverse Team of Innovators and Educators that are Allies for Change. We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, research integrity, and dissemination of knowledge. These constitute the foundational guiding principles that underpin our daily actions, and lead to our Team's camaraderie.
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Group News 2/26/2022: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with Hannes Hempel at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin titled "Predicting Solar Cell Performance from Terahertz and Microwave Spectroscopy" is accepted for publication in Advanced Energy Materials. Congratulations, Hannes (HZB), Simon, Joseph, and the rest of the team! 2/17/2022: Shane hosts Tom Kempa who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Inorganic/Physical Seminar Series to talk about lower-dimensional materials with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Tom! ![]() 2/14/2022: Enrique Surio from Cal State Univ. LA is awarded an inaugural Cottrell Postbac Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement to continue to perform research in the Ardo Group all next year. Congratulations, Enrique! 2/4/2022: Dennis Tang joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Dennis! 12/21/2021: Leanna is awarded a UPenn Vagelos Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Leanna! 12/4/2021: Ana successfully passes her second-year research report. Congratulations, Ana! 11/24/2021: Leanna is now also Dr. Schulte. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being focussed, approachable, and the sky's the limit, Leanna! ![]() 11/18/2021: Shane presents a UCI Solutions that Scale virtual Seminar on the group's efforts in solar H2 production and ocean deacidification. Congratulations, Shane! 11/17/2021: Jen successfully passes her oral exam in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Jen! 11/1/2021: Dr. Tea Yon (Tim) Kim joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Tim! 8/31/2021: Rohit receives a travel grant from UCI Associated Graduate Students (AGS) to defer costs of attending the 30th International Conference on Photochemistry. Congratulations, Rohit! 8/24/2021: Simon is now also Dr. Luo. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being a tinkerer, diligent, and reliable, Simon! ![]() 7/21/2021: Simon's publication titled "Clarification of mechanisms of protonic photovoltaic action initiated by photoexcitation of strong photoacids covalently bound to hydrated Nafion cation-exchange membranes wetted by aqueous electrolytes" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, Simon, Will, and Joseph! 7/20/2021: Leanna's publication titled "Turning Water into a Protonic Diode and Solar Cell via Doping and Dye Sensitization" is accepted for publication in Joule. Congratulations, Leanna, Will, and Larry! 6/16/2021: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Wickramasinghe Group at UCI titled "Tunneling based ten attomolar specific DNA biosensor" is accepted for publication in AIP Advances. Congratulations, Zahra, Larry, and the rest of the team! 6/14/2021: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Wu Group at UCI titled "Hybrid density functional study of band gap engineering of SrTiO3 photocatalyst via doping for water splitting" is accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials. Congratulations, Yusheng! 6/9/2021: Rohit's abstract was selected for a talk at the 30th International Conference on Photochemistry virtual Meeting. Congratulations, Rohit! More News |