Group News
April 2025
Daisy Belmares-Ortega joined our group. Daisy is a UNM Presidential Scholar. She also won El Puente Research Fellowship recently. Welcome Daisy!
April 2025
- Our recent paper on batteries has been selected for the front cover of Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research (Volume 4, issue 6, April 2025).https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aesr.202570031
- Our paper on CO2 treatment has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Congratulations to our former postdoc, Dr. Zhen Zhang.
- Two of our papers on lithium primary batteries ( impedance spectroscopy/computed tomography) have been accepted for presentation at the 2025 Power Source Conference. Congratulations to Sydney!
- Our review paper titled "Estimating the State of Charge in Lithium Primary Batteries: Recent Advances and Critical Insights" has been accepted for publication in Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research. Congratulation to our PhD student, Sydney Roth.
- Congratulations to Nishan Shrestha for successfully passing his PhD comprehensive exam.
- Congratulations to Luis Payan for successfully defending his M.S. thesis with distinction today.
- Sakineh Chabi receives LANL funding for her research proposal on silicon carbide quantum photonics.
- Two of our papers on 2D SiC synthesis/characterization and integration have been accepted for presentation at the 2024 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit.
- Two of our papers on 2D/1D SiC optics and electronics have been accepted for presentation at the 2024 International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials. Congratulations to Nishan Shrestha!
- Our collaborative paper on bi-continuous phase polymers is accepted for publication in Polymer Reviews (IF:13.4).
- Sakineh Chabi Selected as RAC Chair (2024-2026), Effective July 2024.
- Luis Payan Received Award from ASM International Albuquerque Chapter. Congratulations Luis!
- Sakineh Chabi Selected for the 2024 Department of the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) at AFRL-SensorS. Proposal title: Research on nano-semiconductor heterostructures.
- Sakineh Chabi selected as an SOE Teaching Innovation Fellow.
- Sakineh Chabi receives New Mexico Consortium grant for her research proposal on nano-semiconductors.
- Congratulations to Thur-Shaan Montoya on his acceptance to the MateriALZ Winter School 2024!
- Sakineh Chabi receives 2024 UNM Rainforest Innovation GAP Funding award. Proposal title: Advancing silicon carbide nano semiconductor technology.
- Luis Payan receives an internship offer from Intel. Congratulations Luis!
- Sakineh Chabi receives NASA EPSCoR RID award. Proposal title: Novel silicon carbide structures for space exploration.
- Congratulations to three members of our group for graduating and receiving their degrees today: Skyler Oglesby (MSME), Sydney Roth (MSME), and Luis Emilio Payan Ramirez (BSME). We are proud of you!
- Sakineh Chabi Receives RAC Award. Proposal title: Ultra-lightweight silicon/graphene composites for high performance energy storage systems.
- Congratulations to Skyler for successfully defending his thesis/with distinction.Thesis title: Design and development of magnetoelastic resonators for PV ground fault detection.
- Sakineh Chabi Receives SNL University Partnership Award ! Proposal title: Two-dimensional silicon carbide for power electronics.
- Our paper "Two-dimensional Silicon Carbide: Emerging Direct Band Gap Semiconductor" is among Top-10 selected papers( by Nanomaterials) in 2020-2021. Congratulations to my former student Kushal Kadel!
- Sakineh Chabi Receives AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award ! Proposal title: Two-dimensional silicon carbide for future optoelectronics and photonics!
- Sakineh Chabi receives NMSBA award for her proposal on silicon carbide nanosemiconductors.
- Our collaborative paper on nanocellulose aerogels is accepted for publication in Carbohydrate Polymers (IF:10.7). Congratulations Zhen!
- Ayrton Jordan joined our group. Welcome Ayrton!
- Thur-Shaan Montoya joined our group. Welcome Thurshaan!
- Our recent paper on SixCy materials is selected for the cover story of Materials, Volume 15, Issue10, May 2022.
- Our paper titled "Manufacturing of Complex Silicon-Carbon Structures: Exploring SixCy Materials" is accepted for publication in Materials. Congratulations Skyler!
- Suhyeon Kim joined our group. Welcome Suhyeon (Henny)!
- Sakineh Chabi presented her research on 2D SiC technology at the 2022 Innovate New Mexico Technology Showcase.
- Aseem Poudyal joined our group. Welcome Aseem!
- Muhammad Azeem Ghouri joined our group. Welcome Azeem!
- Dr. Zhen Zhang joined our group as a new postdoc. Zhen received his PhD degree in Biomaterials from North Carolina State University. Welcome Zhen!
- Sakineh Chabi received the 2022 Gap Funding award for her proposed research on two-dimensional silicon carbide.
- Sakineh Chabi elected as a Fellow of Vebleo in recognition of her contribution to the field of materials science and specifically graphene and two-dimensional materials.
- Our recent discovery of the world's first monolayer silicon carbide is reported in Semiconductor Today, and Science X .
- Sakineh Chabi gave a keynote talk in the Vebleo Webinar on Graphene Materials and Technology.
- Our invited review paper titled "Graphene Membranes:Transport Properties and Energy Applications" is published online in MAMS. Congratulations Rocio!
- Haden Harper joined our group. Welcome Haden!
- Sakineh Chabi (Co-PI) and collaborators receive ARPA-E Award . Project title: High Power Density Cost-Effective MV DC Aircraft Cable.
- Sakineh Chabi gave an invited talk on two-dimensional silicon carbide at Graphene and 2D Materials Conference .
- Our paper titled "The Creation of True Two-dimensional Silicon Carbide" is accepted for publication in Nanomaterials! Congratulations Zeynel and the rest of the team!
- Hyein received an internship offer from SNL. Congratulations Hyein!
- Hyein received a scholarship from New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Program. Congratulations Hyein!
- Daisy received the Outstanding Sophomore Award in 2021. Congratulations Daisy!
- Skyler received an internship offer from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). Congratulations Skyler!
- Zeynel passed his PhD comprehensive exam. Congratulations Zeynel!
- Dr. Alireza Nafari joined our group as a new postdoc. Ali received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan in 2019. Welcome Ali!
- Hyein Choi joined our group. Welcome Hyein!
- Andrew Mackenzie joined our group. Welcome Andrew!
- Our paper titled" Two-Dimensional Silicon Carbide: Emerging Direct Band Gap Semiconductor'' is accepted for publication in Nanomaterials! Congratulations Kushal!
- Sakineh Chabi wins STC-Innovation Gap Fund for her proposal on two dimensional semiconducting materials!
- Skyler Oglesby joined our group. Welcome Skyler!
Daisy Belmares-Ortega joined our group. Daisy is a UNM Presidential Scholar. She also won El Puente Research Fellowship recently. Welcome Daisy!
- Zeynel Guler joined the Chabi Research Group. Zeynel has recently passed his PhD qualifying exam. Welcome Zeynel!
- Our paper titled ''3D Assembly of Graphene Nanomaterials for Advanced Electronics'' is published in Advanced Intelligent Systems.Thanks to our collaborators Dr. Hortense Le Ferrand from NTU, Singapore and Dr. Shweta Agarwala from Aarhus University, Denmark.
- Sakineh Chabi Profiled in UNM Engineering Magazine.engineering.unm.edu/about/our-magazine/2019-unm-engineering-magazine.pdf
- Sakineh Chabi Chairs '' Mechanical Properties'' Session at the 31st Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials.
- Chabi Group Completed Major Lab Renovation. Thanks to Everyone Who Supported the Renovation Project.
- Sakineh Chabi received capital outlay funding to build a stat-of-the-art materials lab in Mechanical Engineering.
- Sakineh Chabi Wins 2019 Women in STEM Award advance.unm.edu/2019/05/01/four-unm-scientists-selected-for-the-2019-women-in-stem-awards/
