News

07/2024: Michael Pedowitz successfully defended his dissertation titled, “Novel Graphene Heterostructures for Sensitive Environmental and Biological Sensing.” Congratulations, Dr. Pedowitz!

06/2024: Members of Daniels Lab give contributed talks at the Electronic Materials Conference at College Park.

04/2024: Daniel Lewis successfully defended his dissertation titled, “Novel Quasi-Freestanding Epitaxial Graphene Electron Source Heterostructures for X-Ray Generation.” Congratulations, Dr. Lewis!

04/2024: Daniel Lewis’ paper titled, “Emission current enhancement from quasi-freestanding epitaxial graphene microstructure electron emitters through surface layered silicon dioxide” is accepted in 2D Materials. Congrats Daniel!

02/2024: Michael Pedowitz’s paper titled, “Green growth of mixed valence manganese oxides on quasi-freestanding bilayer epitaxial graphene-silicon carbide substrates” is accepted in Materials Today Advances. Congrats Michael!

02/2024: Daniels Lab receives $50K to participate NSF I-Corp program through grant titled, “I-Corps: Translation Potential of Real-time, Ultrasensitive Electrical Transduction of Biological Binding Events for Pathogen and Disease Detection.”

08/2023: Prof. Daniels, Prof. Ghodssi, Weijian Xian, Dr. Justin Stine, and Dr. Jinjing Han introduce a new course, Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory, in Fall 2023 for senior Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering students.

08/2023: Daniels Lab alumni Elias Kallon was admitted into the Doctoral Program at Northwestern University in the Materials Science and Engineering Program. Congratulations Elias!

08/2023: Prof. Daniels co-hosts 2D Symposium at ACCGE-24 with co-hosts Prof. Soaram Kim, Dr. James Gupta, and Prof. Cheng Gong.

08/2023: Jennifer DeMell gives an invited talk at the 2D Symposium at ACCGE-24.

07/2023: Michael Pedowitz successfully defends his proposal. Congratulations, Michael!

06/2023: Members of Daniels Lab give contributed talks at the Electronic Materials Conference in Santa Barbara.

06/2023: Daniels Lab awarded $1.34M grant from Flu Lab LLC. titled, “Immobilization of Broad and Specific Influenza Antibodies on Quasi-freestanding Epitaxial Graphene Biosensors for the Rapid, Sensitive Detection of Circulating Influenza. This work is in collaboration with Milton Lab at UMD, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Gabrielle Neumann at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

06/2023: Prof. Daniels gives invited talk at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Ben Guerir, Morocco (In-person).

06/2023: Prof. Daniels gives invited talk at the 30th Biodetection Technologies Virtual Event for Biothreat & Pathogen Detection, Advanced Technologies for Detection, Diagnostics and Analytics, Rapid and Future Technologies for Biodetection (Virtual).

06/2023: Prof. Daniels gives invited talk to FLEET, Arc Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies at Monash Universtiy (Virtual).

05/2023: Daniels Lab welcomes Brandon Trotter as an REU student for the summer.

05/2023: Prof. Daniels gives invited talk to the 2D Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform Webinar at Pennsylvania State (In-person).

04/2023: Prof. Daniels Gives invited talk at Georgetown University (In-person).

01/2023: Former Daniels Lab Postdoc, Soaram Kim, joins Texas A&M University as Assistant Professor of Electrial & Computer Engineering. Congratulations, Professor Kim!

12/2022: Alex Mazzoni successfully defended his dissertation titled, “Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide in Semiconductor Electronics.” Congratulations, Dr. Mazzoni!

11/2022: Alex Mazzoni’s paper titled, “Comparison of Contact Metals Evaporated onto Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide” was accepted in Journal of Applied Physics. Congradulations, Alex!

09/2022: Daniels Lab welcomes Kendra Rivers as an REU student for the summer.

08/2022: Dr. Kim’s paper titled, “EGaIn-silicone-based highly stretchable and flexible strain sensor for real-time two joint robotic motion monitoring,” was published in Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. Congratulations Soaram!

08/2022: Weijian Xian, John Herboczek and Leon Stevenson join the Daniels Lab. Welcome Weijian, John and Leon!

08/2022: Dimensional Materials Laboratory awarded $60K supplement to NSF grant.

06/2022: Daniel Lewis’ paper titled, Phonon assisted electron emission from quasi-freestanding bilayer epitaxial graphene microstructures” was published in Nanotechnology. Congratulations Daniel!

05/2022: Daniels Lab welcomes Aimen Khan as an REU student for the summer.

04/2022: Prof. Daniels gives invited talk to the Central European Intitute of Technology.

02/2022: Nominated for the UMD Invention of the Year for, “The Coronalyzer: Sensor System for Detecting COVID From Human Breath”, by UM Ventures.

02/2022: Dimensional Materials Laboratory awarded $550K NSF CAREER grant titled, “Real-Time, Selective Gas Sensing in Complex Gas Compositions by Molecular Sieving via Robust Two-Dimensional Heterostructures.”

01/2022: Daniel Lewis successfully defends his proposal titled, “Novel Quasi-Freestanding Epitaxial Graphene Electron Source Heterostructures for X-Ray Generation.” Congratulations, Daniel!

01/2022: Soaram Kim receives US Army Research Laboratory Robert J. Eichelberger Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship. Thank you for all of your contributions to the Dimensional Materials Laboratory.

11/2021: Dr. Kim’s paper titled, “Real-time ultra-sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 by quasi-freestanding epitaxial graphene-based biosensor” was accepted in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Congratulations, Soaram!

11/2021: Prof. Daniels gives an invited talk at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

08/2021: Gas sensing testing chamber is now online.

08/2021: Prof. Daniels hosts 2D Symposium at ACCGE-22 with a special session on quantum materials with co-host Prof. Cheng Gong and Dr. Soaram Kim.

08/2021: Kendra Rivers poster wins Second Place at TREND.

06/2021: Daniels Lab welcomes Elias Kallon as a McNair Scholar.

06/2021: Daniels Lab presents at the Electronic Materials Conference.

05/2021: Daniels Lab welcomes Kendra Rivers as an REU student for the summer.

04/2021: Daniels Lab takes part in the regional section of NSF i-CORPS for product development and customer discovery for our graphene biosensors.

03/2021: Daniels Lab receives 50K from the Medical Device Development Fund (MDDF), towards the commercialization of our breath-based graphene biosensors for pathogen detection.

03/2021: Daniels Lab receives 104K from industry, investigating 2D gas sensors.

03/2021: Daniels Lab receives 104K from the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, pursuing the synthesis of ferromagnetic 2D materials.

01/2021: Jennifer DeMell, a doctoral student in ECE, joins the group.

08/2020: Michael Pedowitz and Brendan Jordan join the group as Clark Fellows pursuing their doctorate.

07/2020: Michael Pedowitz work on Fast Selective Sensing of Nitrogen-Based Gases Utilizing δ-MnO2-Epitaxial Graphene-Silicon Carbide Heterostructures for Room Temperature Gas Sensing is published in the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. Congratulations Michael!

07/2020: Daniels Lab welcomes Leon Stevenson as a McNair Scholar.

06/2020: Daniels Lab presents at the Electronic Materials Conference.

06/2020: Daniels Lab welcomes Gavin Courtright as an REU student for the summer.

06/2020: Electronic Materials Conference

06/2020: Prof. Daniels gives invited talk to the micro micro-nano Mid-Atlantic Micro/Nano Alliance Virtual Seminar Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1rUOK3NliU&t=144s

03/2020: Daniels Lab donates lab PPE to front-line workers.

02/2020: Prof. Daniels and Dr. Kim win second place at a local cornhole tournament.

02/2020: Dr. Kim, Avash, Daniel, and Michael all receive talks at the upcoming MRS 2020.

01/2020: PlanarTECH, Chemical Vapor Deposition System comes online!

10/2019: Prof. Daniels gives an invited talk on 2D Materials at LPS Day.

08/2019: Michael Pedowitz, BS/MS in ECE, joins the group.

08/2019: Prof. Daniels receives the George Corcoran Memorial Award for outstanding teaching in the ECE department at UMD.

08/2019: Dr. Kim gives a talk at the 2D Symposium at ICCGE-19 on his work on MoS2 nanoflower/Epitaxial Graphene gas sensors.

08/2019: Prof. Daniels co-hosts 2D Symposium at ICCGE-19 with a special session on h-BN.

08/2019: Jerome Quenum joins the University of California Berkeley as a doctoral student.

06/2019: Dr. Kim gives a talk at the Electronic Materials Laboratory on his work on MoS2 nanoflower sensors on epitaxial graphene.

05/2019: Undergraduate researcher, Jerome Quenum, is awarded the University Medal.

11/2018: Dr. Soaram Kim joins the group as a postdoctoral associate.

09/2018: Prof. Daniels gives invited talk at the University of South Carolina’s Sustainability Day 2018.

08/2018: Ihteyaz Aqaeed Avash, a doctoral student in ECE, joins the group.

06/2018: Daniel goes to NRL for research over the summer.

05/2018: Prof. Daniels becomes a Sustainability Teaching Fellow at UMD.

03/2018: Prof. Daniels is invited as a guest speaker at the University of  South Carolina’s Grace Jordan McFadden Professors Program.

03/2018: Guy Cassuto, a doctoral student in MSE, joins the group.

02/2018: Daniel Lewis, a doctoral student in ECE, joins the group.

11/2017: Prof. Daniels is invited as a guest speaker at UMD’s National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemist and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE).

08/2017: Prof. Kevin Daniels starts as an assistant professor in ECE and IREAP.