Group News

10.08.2023

– Paul Miller’s Conjugated Biradical paper accepted at Chemical Science…congratulations Paul!

10.01.2023

– The Shultz group welcomes Alexandria Kerr!

08.17.2023

– Paul Miller successfully defended his Ph. D. dissertation. Congratulations, Paul!

08.12.2023

– Our latest paper on photoinduced electron spin polarization has been accepted at Chem. Sci.! Congratulations, Anil and Patrick!

06.28.2023

– Dave has been invited to serve as a guest editor for a special issue of Chemical Physics Reviews with the subject, molecular approaches for spin-based electronics.

03.30.2023

– Dave and collaborator Martin Kirk (University of New Mexico) will organize a symposium, “Spin Interactions in Molecular Excited State Processes,” at the Fall 2024 ACS Meeting, which will be held in Denver, CO, USA (18-22 August 2024).

01.20.2023

– Our latest paper on exchange coupling in donor-acceptor biradical complexes has been accepted at Inorg. Chem.!

01.18.2023

-Our latest paper on excited state lifetimes in binuclear ligand-to-ligand charge transfer complexes has been accepted at Dalton Trans.! Congratulations, Riley!

11.14.2022

– Our latest paper on photoinduced, ground-state electron spin polarization of a biradical ligand metal complex has been accepted at J. Am. Chem. Soc.!  Congratulations, Anil and Patrick!

07.08.2022

– Our latest paper on structural control of photoinduced and exchange-modulated electron spin polarization in ground state, radical-appended metal complexes has been accepted at J. Am. Chem. Soc.!  Congratulations, Patrick!

04.18.2022

– Congratulations to Paul Miller for winning the Percy Lavon Julian Research Award! Well deserved, Paul!

03.11.2022

– Congratulations to Paul Miller for winning an Inorganic Chemistry poster award at our annual Recruiting Weekend poster session!

01.06.2022 

– Our latest paper on structural control of photoinduced and exchange-modulated electron spin polarization in ground state, radical-appended metal complexes has been accepted at J. Phys. Chem. Lett.!  Congratulations, Patrick!

12.08.2021 

– Today is Dr. Patrick Hewitt’s last day in lab.  He starts his career at UES, Inc. the first week of January, 2022.  Congratulations, Patrick!!


11.18.2021 

– The group welcomes our new postdoc, Dr. Anil Reddy Marri!


09.01.2021 

– Our paper on photoinduced and exchange-modulated electron spin polarization in ground state, radical-appended metal complexes has been accepted at Chem. Sci.!


07.28.2021 

– Our first paper on photoinduced electron spin polarization in ground state, radical-appended metal complexes has been accepted at J. Am. Chem. Soc.!


11.4.2020 

– The group welcomes first-year graduate student, Paul Miller!


10.19.2020

– Our invited paper in celebration of Prof. Dante Gatteschi’s 75th birthday, “In Search of Stable, High-Spin Polymers,” has been accepted by Appl. Magn. Res.!


10.10.2020 

– The artwork for our Chem. Sci. paper, “Transferrable Property Relationships Between Magnetic Exchange Coupling and Molecular Conductance,” has been selected to appear as a cover graphic!


9.14.2020 

– Our paper, “Transferrable Property Relationships Between Magnetic Exchange Coupling and Molecular Conductance,” has been accepted by Chem. Sci.!


8.17.2020 

– David Scammon successfully defended his Ph.D.  Congratulations, David!


7.22.2020 

– Patrick Hewitt successfully defended his Ph.D.  Congratulations, Patrick!


2.18.2020

– Our paper, “Spectroscopic Signatures of Resonance Inhibition Reveal Differences in Donor-Bridge and Bridge-Acceptor Couplings,” has been accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.!


7.24.2019

– We are pleased to announce that our DOE proposal, “Optical Generation and Manipulation of Spin Qubits,” has been selected for funding!   https://science.osti.gov/bes


6.28.2019

– David Daley successfully defended his Ph.D.!  Congratulations, David!


5.20.2019

– Welcome Makayla Surles, our summer REU student from NC A&T University!


5.1.2019

– Nathan Rivers successfully defended his M.S.!  Congratulations, Nate!


2.1.2019

– Our paper, “Wavefunction Control of Charge-Separated Excited State Lifetimes,” has been accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Congratulations, David Daley!


9.14.2018 

– Our paper, “Ground State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shifts Predict Charge-Separated Excited State Lifetimes,” has been accepted by Inorganic Chemistry!


7.2.2018 

– Our NSF grant, “Metal Complexes of Donor-Bridge Acceptor Biradical Ligands: Testing Models for Electron Transport,” CHE-1764181, has been recommended for funding!


2.22.2018 

– Former Shultz group member, executive vice president and COO of Howard University, Dr. Tashni-Ann Dubroy will speak at NC State on Feb. 22.  Read more here.


2.5.2018 

– Our manuscript, “Excited State Magnetic Exchange Interactions Enable Large Spin Polarization Effects,” was selected to be featured in JACS Spotlights (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 1977), a feature intended to make JACS research more accessible to the broader community.


1.2.2018

– Our manuscript, “Excited State Magnetic Exchange Interactions Enable Large Spin Polarization Effects,” was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.!


10.17.2017 

– David Scammon successfully completed his preliminary examination, congratulations, David!!


9.14.2017

– Our collaborative valence tautomer paper was accepted by J. Phys. Chem. Lett.!


5.2.2017

– Our paper, “Heterospin Biradicals Provide Insight into Molecular Conductance and Rectification,” has been accepted at Chemical Science!


3.13.2017

– Professor Shultz has been selected to receive a 2017 Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professorship Award (https://grad.ncsu.edu/alumni-and-giving/professorship-award/).


10.28.2016 

– The group welcomes our new first year graduate student Nathan Rivers!


10.11.2016 

– Congratulations to Patrick Hewitt for passing his Preliminary Exam!


3.28.2016 

– Congratulations to Jinyuan Zhang for a successful defense of his dissertation! Jinyuan is off to Northwestern Univ. as a postdoctoral researcher in the Wasielewski group!


12.2015 

– Congratulations to Dan Stasiw and Jinyuan Zhang for their J. Am. Chem. Soc. publication illustrating the torsional and sigma vs. pi dependence of electronic and magnetic coupling.


6.2015 

– Congratulations to Chris Tichnell for his Inorg. Chem. publication describing electronic structure of a spin-crossover complex bearing a catecholate-nitronylnitroxide ligand!


6.30.2015 

– Congratulations to Chris Tichnell for successful defense of his dissertation! “Tich” is off to Michigan State Univ. as a postdoctoral researcher in the McCusker group!


3.20.2015 

– Congratulations to Dan Stasiw for successful defense of his dissertation! Dan is off to the Univ. of Minnesota as a postdoctoral researcher in the Tolman group!