C. M. Elliott Research Group

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March 23, 2004

Wow, it has REALLY been a long time since the site was updated!! Since the summer of 2002, much has changed in the Elliott Group. Shawn and Corey both defended successfully and are off to regular jobs. Shawn at TDA Research in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, and Corey at Bend Research in Bend, Oregon. Matthew, Jeremy, Di, and Mike Scott all made it through Orals successfully, and Matthew is preparing for his Research Seminar later this Spring. We have two new group members, Mike Green (AHH!! Another Mike!) who we shall refer to as Blue, and Jie Hong. Both are hard at work getting cumes behind them. Joe and John have manuscripts in the works. Boss Mike finished his term as department chair in August 2003, and rewarded himself with a sabbatical in Europe for the Fall 2003 semester. He is now back, and his presence in the lab is a great help to all of us. Matthew and Jeremy were both able to go to Germany and Italy, respectively, to work with Boss Mike during his sabbatical. Last month we had the annual Steamboat Ski trip, which was a great time for all. Several former members made the trip from all around the nation to join in the fun.

We’ll try and keep the updates more frequent. Until next time.

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As usual, it has been far too long since the site was updated, but afterall we're scientists first and publicists second. We now have three new group members: Jeremy, Matt, and Mike. They are becoming well aquainted with life around the labs and are well into their first summer of research. Debi and Joe survived their preliminary oral exams. John, Shawn, and Corey have manuscripts in the works. Shawn also just submitted a manuscript to JACS on cobalt complex-based mediators in dye-sensitized solar cells. Shawn should also be defending soon and will be working at TDA Research in Wheat Ridge, Colorado when he finishes.

November 10, 2001

Corey Salzer and Brad have both defended and are out of here. Corey is now working at Hach just outside of Fort Collins. Joe did a nice job on his literature seminar and Debi is anxiously awaiting her turn. Corey Bloom and Shawn are still plugging away on research into OLEDs and DSSCs (respectively).

February 21, 2001

Since its been so long since this has been updated, a list of highlights over the past six months will follow. The latest news is that we have expanded our group by two recently. Debi Deininger and Joe Kremer have joined our group as graduate students (which brings the total up to eight for now). Corey Salzer and Brad are currently writing up and are hoping to be out of here in short order. Also, we are less than a week away from our annual ski trip to Steamboat (the group is understandably restless). And now the highlights... After moving the laser lab upstairs, John has singlehandedly resurrected the transient absorbance setup; the data just in looks good. Mike and Shawn attended the Gordon Conference on Electrochemistry in Ventura CA. back in January (with Dan being suspiciously absent). Mike has been busy writing a new proposal to the NSF (finished) and writing the renewal for our DOE grant (almost finished). Its been snowing like mad this winter and there have been many powder days over the last few months. Everyone had an enjoyable holiday break. The cabin party was a blast (and so were the potato cannons), but it did make for a rather subdued group meeting the following monday morning. Shawn also proved that its not safe to hold the potato cannon too close to your body (PVC explosions are quite impressive); consequently, Shawn's cannon now has an ABS rear plate. That's about it.

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June 7, 2000

Summer is finally upon us here in Fort Collins which means its a little less crowded around here and parking is free. It also means we will be planning our annual cabin party soon. John has now passed through the wringer and is recovering quite nicely. His orals went well (as well as orals can go anyway) and the group went out to celebrate at the Trailhead Tavern (added a new photo to the members photo gallery ). We've also added some new things to the web page recently. There is now another category in the research section and several new 3D images in the gallery.

May 10, 2000

Congratulations to Francois and Laura who are the new proud parents of Emma Haywood Pichot who is 7 lbs. 4 oz. and 19 3/4 in., and word has it that the new family is doing well.

Corey did an excellent job on his seminar, and we finally caught John and wrestled the chemicals from his hands and tied him to his desk so that he can study for orals. Its always a good sign when research is going so well that it distracts from your study time. Useless chemistry quote of the day, "classes can fail you out, but only research can get you out."

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April 20, 2000

It looks like Val has gotten the new LASER setup all in good working order. With this setup we can easily measure excited state lifetimes, and using transient absorption, we can get at lifetimes of non-emissive species. The data from these experiments looks great and the R² values of most fits come in at about 0.999. Our hats are off to you Val, thanks.

John Weber will be under the gun soon and is preparing for his orals exam. Corey Bloom will give the Analytical Div. Seminar next week on his research. To all of you folks who stopped by our labs to check out CSU as a grad school, we hope you enjoyed your trip, and good luck with your decision.

Congratulations to Francois and Laura who will become parents soon!

March 20, 2000

We're just getting our new web site up and running, so be patient and content will fill in soon. If you'd like to give some feedback on our new look, just write an email to Shawn and let him know what you think. Mike is now back from PittCon and life continues as normal around here.

March 15, 2000

We just finished hosting our spring mass visit for undergraduates interested in attending graduate school here. Our poster session went well and several students met with Shawn Sapp and Corey Bloom on Saturday to talk more about the group.

Mike is currently off at PittCon in New Orleans where he is giving a talk on electro-luminescence, electro-chemi-luminescence, and organic light-emitting diodes.

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