First paper from the group published in Chemistry of Materials
Discovery of Noncentrosymmetric Sr3As2S7 and Sr3As2Se2.5S4.5 Featuring As3+/As5+ Coordination and Their Strong Nonlinear Optical Response" Chemistry of Materials,2026.
Chemistry of materials special issue " Honoring the Outstanding Contributions of Mercouri Kanatzidis to Chemistry of Materials."
Northern Lights in Winnipeg, 2025
Undergraduate Research Showcase, 2025, UoM
Tyson Roy presenting a poster titled " Synthesis and Characterization of a New Chalcogenides for Infrared Nonlinear Optics"
Fall 2025:
Taiwo joins the lab for her honors project where we use machine learning methods to accelerate the discovery of inorganic compounds for photovoltaics.
Fall 2025:
Dewin starts life as a graduate students and his research will focus on the design of new noncentrosymmetric structures.
Podcast (Science Lens, Season 1 Episode 1)
Abishek on the Science Lens podcast hosted by the Faculty of Science.
Thanks Kimia, Michelle and Camille for the invitation.
It was great to meet Prof. Houda El Mimouni, Department of Computer Science, UoM
Summer 2025 Ends!
A nice dinner with the solid state crew! Thank Dr. Mario Bieringer (his group) and Dr. Joey Lussier for joining us!
A nice and productive summer for Tyson, Hyewon, Manya and Dewin. Good luck to all of them for the Fall semester.
North American Solid State Chemistry Conference 2025, Ames, Iowa, USA:
Dr. Vidyanshu Mishra presenting a poster titled " Centrosymmetry to Noncentrosymmtery by Tuning Arsenic Coordination"
Group Hot Pot, Summer 2025:
We were happy to have Dr. Mario Bieringer's students Jenny and Bobbi join us.
CSC Ottawa, 2025:
Abishek presenting in the Solid State Chemistry - Novel synthesis, Complex symmetry, Revolutionary properties symposium (thanks Mario and Jenny for the pictures)
Summer 2025:
Manya Rishi joins the lab as NSERC USRA researcher.
Undergraduates Tyson, Hyewon, Manya and Dewin start working in the lab.
April 1, 2025: Dr. Iyer lab was awarded the NSERC Discovery Grant
June 14, 2024: Dr. Iyer is awarded the prestigious CRC Tier II award in Solid-state Materials for Sustainable Energy
July 1, 2024: Dr. Vidyanshu Mishra joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher
May 1, 2024: New laboratory starts