Current research focuses on metal-organic chromophore photophysics and energy transfer, excited state engineering, photochemical upconversion phenomena...

Joined January 2017
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The Castellano Group retweeted
We're thrilled to announce that Postdoc Alexandra Barth from @CastellanoGroup has been selected as one of only 35 awardees worldwide for the prestigious Chemical Abstracts Service (@CASChemistry) Future Leaders program! 🤩 @NCStateSciences #chempack chemistry.sciences.ncsu.edu/…
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The Castellano Group retweeted
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@CastellanoGroup Great time speaking to @FNCastellano in his visit to @CMU_Chem. Thank you so much for the great talk!
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The Castellano Group retweeted
Congratulations Dr. Cortés Villena @ToreroAWESOME for the great Ph. D. dissertation!! #perovskites #energy at @ICMol_UV thanks to the experts of the thesis committee @virginiamtzmtz @CadraLab and @CastellanoGroup !!
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We had a blast hosting @ExplorisSchool for two days of showing cool chemistry to excited students! Huge thanks to @susdyechemlab for the cool dye experiments and @AbolhasaniLab for showing off an awesome AI powered robotic arm that could play tic tac toe with pipettes!
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Congrats to our latest PhD Candidate @AzkaArshad20 ! Azka presented her work focusing on Homomolecular Triplet-Triplet Annihilation in Metalloporphyrin Photosensitizers. 🎉🎉🎉
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Congrats to @AlexTBarth for her recent collaboration on Ligand field excitation annihilation in bulk CrCl3 with the Maggard group and Dougherty group! J. Chem. Phys. 161, 114706 (2024)
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Congrats to @p3arladrienn3 for giving a great second year seminar talk!
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Cesium lead bromide complexes luminescing a a beautiful 510 nm! Complexes this emissive are so fun to work with!
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Congrats to our newest PhD candidate Irene Dzaye! 🎉🎉🎉 Irene defended her prelim on multi feature excited states in Cr (III) Ru (II) and Re (I) complexes!
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New group photo to welcome in the summer! Plus a bonus pic featuring our newest post doc!
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The Castellano Group retweeted
Sometimes, the @CastellanoGroup @NCStateChem assists our friends @NCStateEngr across the street in all things #photochemistry. Thanks to @AustinPyrch for his efforts! Color morphing surfaces with effective chemical shielding disq.us/t/4odjduu

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Congrats to our spring 2024 graduates Dr. Michael Rosko and Emma Messina! 🎉🎉 Emma will be continuing to grad school The University of Washington. Our group also had a blast attending noble laureate Dave Macmillan’s talk as well as getting a chance to meet him!
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Congrats to our undergrad researcher Emma Messina for presenting her senior thesis! “Photocatalyzed Hyperpolerization of Nitrate using Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange”. Her hard work and dedication have paid off! 🎉🎉
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The group had a blast at the departments 25th annual poster session! Our 2nd year grad students @p3arladrienn3 and Conor McCormick presented posters as well as 3rd year student @AzkaArshad20 and post doc @AlexTBarth! Congrats to all who attended for the great work shown off!
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Congrats to our latest PhD graduate, Dr @MC_Rosko ! 🎉
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Congrats to @Jon_Wheel_99 for passing his prelim! Our newest PhD candidate! 🎉 Jon presented his work on Visible-Light Harvesting Cr(III) Photosensitizers.
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