Three summer fellowships were recently awarded: (1) a summer fellowship from the CSU Energy Institute was awarded to Spencer Johnson to continue his work on understanding how particular patterns of nuclear spins impact nuclear spin relaxation dynamics. (2) Monique Broussard won a small fellowship award for research from the Chemistry department. (3) A summer fellowship for Ian Moseley was awarded through the CSU Center of Advanced Magnetics to work on studying paramagnetic spin baths. Congratulations everyone!

Our new paper “Programmable Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Ti(IV) Coordination Complexes” has been accepted for publication in Inorganic Chemistry. This paper, which features Spencer (undergraduate in Physics, planned graduation 2021) as first author and Cassidy Jackson as second author, describes new design strategies for controlling nuclear spin magnetization in the ligand shell of metal complexes. Keep an eye out for it. Congratulations Spencer!

Ian Moseley, Zadrozny lab member, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Ian, well-deserved!

Cassidy’s recent paper on understanding how specific arrangements of magnetic nuclei in molecules impact magnetic relaxation was highlighted by National High Magnetic Field Laboratory! Read more about it here: https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/emr/emr-publications/highlights-emr/electron-spin-coherence

Siyoung Sung just joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Siyoung comes to our group from Texas A&M, where he got his PhD under the direction of Prof. Michael Nippe. We are overjoyed to have him as part of our team!

Cassidy’s paper on the orientation dependence of phase memory relaxation was accepted for publication in Chem. Phys. Lett. Congratulations to all involved! Look for it to appear online in the near future.

The Zadrozny group welcomes two new graduate students, Christina Charles and Roxanna Martinez, into the group. We are excited to see where their studies carry them!

Cassidy Jackson (Zadrozny lab 3rd year student) was recently selected as the CSU graduate student researcher of the month by the graduate student council. Well-deserved, congratulations Cassidy! More information can be found in the November newsletter: http://gsc.colostate.edu/2019/11/05/check-out-gscs-november-newsletter/

The School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) recently posted a blog written by lab member Tyler Ozvat that highlights the sustainability related aspects of his research. Read the post on the Human Nature Blog through the SoGES website amongst a broad range of other sustainability research occurring at CSU.

Rare earth mining is worsened by recycling challenges, but magnetism could provide an answer

SoGES – HUMANnature Blog Post

Our first paper on low-coordinate chemistry was just accepted as part of a special issue in the journal Polyhedron. This is Ian’s first accepted paper in our group, and focused on the synthesis and characterization of a dinuclear complex of low-coordinate iron. Congratulations Ian!