Read the compelling essay by Geiger group member Naomi Dalchand that was just published in Science magazine. Congratulations on an excellent piece, Naomi!
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Paul and Franz receive 2021 ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award
Professor Franz Geiger and Paul Ohno (former student) will be awarded the 2021 ACS Nobel laureate Signature Award. This ACS national award is sponsored by Avantor “to recognize an outstanding graduate student and her or his preceptor, in the field of chemistry, broadly defined.” The award was established in 1978 by Avantor (formerly Mallinckrodt Baker Inc.) as the Nobel Laureate Read More…
Geiger labs are OPEN again following 2-day shutdown
JPC-A + ACS Earth & Space Chemistry Joint Virtual Special Issue on Atmospheric Chemistry Research
We are pleased to present the Virtual Special Issue on Atmospheric Chemistry Research put together jointly by ACS Earth & Space Chemistry Associate Editor V. Faye McNeill and JPA A’s Senior Editors Andrew Orr-Ewing and Franz M. Geiger. Brush up on exciting papers published in the two journals over the past couple of years and Read More…
International patent on “Liquid flow induced power generation using nanoscale metal layers” published
Our international patent on Liquid flow induced power generation using nanoscale metal layers was published on 11 June 2020!
First 2020 Geiger Group Paper published – charge reversal at lipid membranes!
Congratulations to HanByul’s second first-author paper – this one on detecting charge reversal and quantifying the corresponding total surface potentials using our new heterodyne-detected second harmonic generation spectrometer.
Happy 2020 with a new lipid membrane paper in ACS AMI
Happy 2020 from the Geiger labs! We celebrate with a nice new paper on lipid membranes in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces that was published in 31 Dec. 2019, in which Naomi Dalchand describes how to quantify the charge state of bound polypeptides and polycations.
Graduate School Reflections from a Business Analyst and Former Geiger Group Member
In our series of blog post written by former Geiger group members Dr. Hilary Chase (PhD Defense September 2017 on “Experimental and Computational Approaches for Probing Atmospherically Relevant Interfaces”) reflects on her Graduate School experience at NU: As a business analyst for a fund, you might be scratching your head as to how and why I Read More…
ACS Liveslides Presentation on our New Optical Voltmeter Posted
Our ACS LiveSlides Presentation of the new optical voltmeter we recently published in JPC Letters is now posted at ACS. Enjoy!
BBC World Service live interview on electricity generation via metal nanolayers
Lawrence Pollard of the BBC World Service interviews Franz live on Newsday, aired at 5:25 AM GMT on 28 August 2019, reaching approximately 150 million people. Can rust generate electricity? Listen to the 5 minute piece below.