News and Notes

interactions within the CFN community

April 21, 2016

Upcoming Events 

• May 23–25, 2016: NSLS-II & CFN Joint Users’ Meeting 

News Stories 

• Charles Black Named Director of Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials 
• 513th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 3/30: ‘Manipulating Nanostructures with Light’
• Brookhaven Lab Facilities Team Up to Offer Beamline for Cutting-Edge Science
• BNL’s Sadowski Studies Small-Scale Structures
• Brookhaven National Lab, SUNY Old Westbury Host More than 160 Local Students for ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Anniversary Event
• Brookhaven Scientists Mentor Students with STEM Show-and-Tell
• Graphene Leans on Glass to Advance Electronics
• Scientists Guide Gold Nanoparticles to Form “Diamond” Superlattices
• Unique Two-Level Cathode Structure Improves Battery Performance 

Awards and Honors 

• Battelle’s Inventor of the Year Award: Oleg Gang
• BNL Five-Year Service Award: Christopher Ruggiero 

Comings and Goings

New Hires

• Wenrui Zhang, Research Associate, Materials Synthesis and Characterization
• Wattaka Sitaputra, Research Associate, Proximal Probes
• Dario Stacchiola, Group Leader, Interface Science and Catalysis 

New Alumni 

• Wenyan Liu, Research Associate, Soft and Bio Nanomaterials 
• Xiaochuan Ge, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theory and Computation 

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