News

03.2024


Andrey Rogach with Sasha Efros at QD2024.

10.2023

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to colloidal quantum dots! We are excited and inspired by this great news. Congratulations to everyone in our community!

08.2023

Prof. Rogach has received a prestigious Senior Research Fellowship established by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong SAR.

05.2023

Tin-Based Perovskites for aqueous batteries – a disruptive new application.
Our story on “Conversion-Type Organic-Inorganic Tin-Based Perovskite Cathodes for Durable Aqueous Zinc-Iodine Batteries” has appeared in Adv. Energy Mater.

10.2022

Prof. Rogach has been appointed to the Yeung Kin Man Chair Professorship in Photonics Materials at CityU.

08.2022

Review paper “Stability of Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes: Existing Issues and Mitigation Strategies Related to both Material and Device Aspects” has been published in Adv. Mater. with a cover page.

10.2021

Review paper on "Metal Halide Perovskites as Emerging Thermoelectric Materials" has been published in ACS Energy Letters

6.2021

Review paper on "State of the Art and Prospects for Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals" has been published in ACS Nano

4.2021

Review paper on "Optical Processes in Carbon Nanocolloids" has been published in Chem

03.2021

Highly efficient LEDs based on 2D perovskite films: A recent paper by Rogach group in collaboration with University of Shanghai, entitled "Smoothing the energy transfer pathway in quasi-2D perovskite films using methanesulfonate leads to highly efficient light-emitting devices" has been published in Nature Communication, and highlighted by CityU

12.2020

Prof. Rogach featured in Croucher Foundation News: “Shedding light on novel nanomaterials

11.2020

Perovskite nanorods:Our recent review paper entitled “Metal Halide Perovskite Nanorods: Shape Matters” is featured on the cover page of Advanced Materials

02.2019

Prof. Rogach receives prestigious international and local awards

02.2019

Green perovskite LEDs become stable: A recent paper by Rogach group in collaboration with University of Shanghai, entitled " Trifluoroacetate Induced Small-Grained CsPbBr3 Perovskite Films Result in Efficient and Stable Light-Emitting Devices " has been published in Nature Communication

02.2019

Carbon dots become brighter: A recent paper by Rogach group in collaboration with Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, entitled “Carbon Dots Produced via Space-Confined Vacuum Heating: Maintaining Efficient Luminescence in Both Dispersed and Aggregated States” is featured on the cover page of Nanoscale Horizons

10.2017

Growth mechanism of strongly emitting CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals with a tunable bandgap has been considered in details in Nature Communication paper by Huang et al.

Read the full story at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00929-2

09.2017

A review "Carrier Multiplication Mechanisms and Competing Processes in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanostructures" by Kershaw and Rogach has been published in Materials

Read the full story (Open Access) at: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/10/9/1095

07.2017

Research paper "Incorporating Copper Nanoclusters into Metal-Organic Frameworks: Confinement-Assisted Emission Enhancement and Application for Trinitrotoluene Detection" by Wang et al has been featured on the cover page of Particle and highlighted on AdvancedScienceNews.com

Read the full story at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppsc.201700029/abstract

05.2017

Revealing the crystal structure of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals by magneto-optical spectroscopy: Our collaborative work with the University of Bordeauxis is featured on the cover page of Nano Letters

Read the full story on "Neutral and Charged Exciton Fine Structure in Single Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals Revealed by Magneto-optical Spectroscopy" at: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00064

03.2017

A review article on Materials Aspects of Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Optoelectronic Applications has been published in Materials Horizons

Read the full story at: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/mh/c6mh00469e#!divAbstract

11.2016

A review article on Colloidal Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Optical Properties and Applications has been published in NPG Asia Materials

Read the full story at: http://www.nature.com/am/journal/v8/n11/full/am2016167a.html

11.2016

All-copper nanocluster based LEDs: Rogach’s group paper is featured on the cover page of Advanced Science (Wiley)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.201600182/abstract
and highlighted by "Cutting-Edge Chemistry", ACS
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/cutting-edge-chemistry/organic--organometallic--and-metallic-luminogens.html

09.2016

A review article on “Aqueous Based Semiconductor Nanocrystals” has been published in Chem. Rev.

Read the full story at: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00041

01.2016

Nanothermometry with quantum dots: Rogach’s group paper is featured on the cover page of Small

Read the full story at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.201501984/full

01.2016

Green perovskite LEDs shine brighter: A recent NanoLetters paper by Rogach group in collaboration with HKU, entitled "Enhancing the Brightness of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal Based Green Light-Emitting Devices through the Interface Engineering with Perfluorinated Ionomer" has been covered by nanowebtech.org (IOP) with an interview.

Read the full story on: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/63746

10.2015

Aligning nanorods using light: A recent ACS Nano paper by Rogach group in collaboration with HKUST, entitled "Combination of Photo-Induced Alignment and Self-Assembly to Realize Polarized Emission from Ordered Semiconductor Nanorods" has been covered by nanowebtech.org (IOP) with an interview.

Read the full story on: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/62969

08.2014

Prof. Rogach elected as Fellow of Electromagnetic Academy, USA

08.2014

Research paper “Redox shuttle mechanism enhances photocatalytic H2 generation on Ni-decorated CdS nanorods” ( http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4049.html) has been published in Nature Materials as a result of our on-going HK-German collaborative project (see: http://www.phog.physik.lmu.de/news/archive/2014_08_11/index.html)

03.2014

Prof. Rogach conferred the title of Honorary Professor of Xi’An Jiaotong University, China

01.2014

Review on "Hierarchical SnO2 Nanostructures: Recent Advances in Design, Synthesis and Applications" featured on the cover page of the issue has been published in the Special Issue "Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Chemistry of Materials"

Link to: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm4018248

09.2013

25th Anniversary Article by S. Gupta et al. on “Ion Exchange in Colloidal Nanocrystals” has been published in Adv. Mater.

Link to: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201302400/abstract

03.2013

Review article by S. Kershaw et al. on “Narrow Bandgap Colloidal Metal Chalcogenide Quantum Dots: Synthetic Methods, Heterostructures, Assemblies, Electronic and Infrared Optical Properties” has been published in Chem. Soc. Rev.

Link to: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/CS/c2cs35331h

09.2012

Feature article by A. Rogach and co-workers on “Semiconductor Nanowires Self-Assembled from Colloidal CdTe Nanocrystal Building Blocks: Optical Properties and Application Perspectives” has been published in J. Mater. Chem.

Link to: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2012/JM/C2JM90144G

07.2012

Book on "Complex-Shaped metal Nanoparticles: Bottom-Up Syntheses and Applications" co-edited by Andrey Rogach and Tapan Sau has been published by Wiley-VCH

07.2012

ARG project with Alphasense on gas sensing with infrared emitting quantum dots started

07.2012

Research paper by Haihua Yang et al on heterojunction engineering has been featured on the cover page of Advanced Functional Materials

10.2011

A. Rogach becomes Associate Editor, ACS NANO

07.2011

A. Rogach receives “Grand” CityU Research Excellence Award 2011

07.2011

Perspective article has been published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.: Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots as Solar Cell Components and Photosensitizers: Material, Charge Transfer, and Separation Aspects of Some Device Topologies.

04.2011

Feature acrticle has now been published online.: Hybrid Colloidal Heterostructures of Anisotropic Semiconductor Nanocrystals Decorated with Noble Metals: Synthesis to Function

03.2011

Andrey Rogach under the TOP 100 Material Scientists worldwide

01.2011

CFP (Centre for Functional Photonics) has been approved with Prof Andrey Rogach as Founding Director