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Dr. Scott Weinert
Office: 319 Physical Science I
Phone: (405) 744-6543
charles.s.weinert@okstate.edu


Latest News

Sangeetha Successfully Defends Her Ph.D. Thesis

Sangeetha Komandrui, a fifth-year student in the group, successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on Thursday July 19th!  Congratulations to Dr. Komanduri!

Sangeetha PhD

Weinert Lab Awarded a NSF Research Grant

We recieved a research grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $390,000 for 3 years that will be in effect from August 2015 through July 2018.  The funds were awarded to support our ongoing efforts to synthesize and characterize long-chain oligogermanes having more than six atoms in the germanium - germanium backbone.  The driving force for this research is to prepare discrete well-characterized molecules that will exhibit physical properties that mimic larger polygermanes and germanium nanomaterials.  We expect that these larger molecules will have interesting optical attributes, such as thermochromism or non-linear optical properties, and possibly will also exhibit conductivity.  These properties should be tunable by variation of the molecule's composition.  We are extremely grateful to the NSF for providing us with the funds to conduct this research.

Ardalan's Paper Accepted in Organometallics

Ardalan Hayatifar, along with current Ph.D. students Sangeetha Komanduri and Alex Shumaker and former undergrad Sydney Hallenbeck, just got a paper accepted to Organometallics!  Ardalan holds a record for fastest publication for a Ph.D. student after joining the group.  Congratulations!

Outreach Program Highlighted In Vanguard Magazine

Julia Conneywerdy, a high school student in our lab in 2008, to receive a MS degree from OSU.

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Sangeetha Delivers Her Ph.D. Research Seminar

Sangeetha Komanduri, a fifth-year Ph.D. student, completed her research seminar on May 8th 2018.  This is the last requirement in our program before her final defense this July.  Congratulations Sangeetha!