The Castellano Group

We're thrilled to announce that Postdoc Alexandra Barth from @CastellanoGroup has been selected as one of only 35 awardees worldwide for the prestigious Chemical Abstracts Service (@CASChemistry) Future Leaders program! 🤩 @NCStateSciences #chempack chemistry.sciences.ncsu.edu/2025/04/02/bar…

@CastellanoGroup Great time speaking to @FNCastellano in his visit to @CMU_Chem. Thank you so much for the great talk!

Congratulations Dr. Cortés Villena @ToreroAWESOME for the great Ph. D. dissertation!! #perovskites #energy at @ICMol_UV thanks to the experts of the thesis committee @virginiamtzmtz @CadraLab and @CastellanoGroup !!

We had a blast hosting @ExplorisSchool for two days of showing cool chemistry to excited students! Huge thanks to @susdyechemlab for the cool dye experiments and @AbolhasaniLab for showing off an awesome AI powered robotic arm that could play tic tac toe with pipettes!

Congrats to our latest PhD Candidate @AzkaArshad20 ! Azka presented her work focusing on Homomolecular Triplet-Triplet Annihilation in Metalloporphyrin Photosensitizers. 🎉🎉🎉

Congrats to @AlexTBarth for her recent collaboration on Ligand field excitation annihilation in bulk CrCl3 with the Maggard group and Dougherty group! J. Chem. Phys. 161, 114706 (2024)

Congrats to @p3arladrienn3 for giving a great second year seminar talk!

Check out our recently published JPC article reporting triplet extinction coefficients and annihilation rate constants for commonly used metalloporphyrin photosensitizers. Congratulations to @AzkaArshad20! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to @AlexTBarth , @AustinPyrch and, Conor McCormick for getting their paper on LMCT activated bond homolysis for almost radical generation published in JPC! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The @CastellanoGroup @NCStateChem investigates the steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic properties of vanadium(V) molecules for LMCT-activated bond homolysis reactions. @BioLECEFRC @FNCastellano @AlexTBarth. Thanks to @DOEScience for funding! go.acs.org/aJb

Cesium lead bromide complexes luminescing a a beautiful 510 nm! Complexes this emissive are so fun to work with!

Congrats to our newest PhD candidate Irene Dzaye! 🎉🎉🎉 Irene defended her prelim on multi feature excited states in Cr (III) Ru (II) and Re (I) complexes!

New group photo to welcome in the summer! Plus a bonus pic featuring our newest post doc!

Sometimes, the @CastellanoGroup @NCStateChem assists our friends @NCStateEngr across the street in all things #photochemistry. Thanks to @AustinPyrch for his efforts! Color morphing surfaces with effective chemical shielding disq.us/t/4odjduu

The latest collaboration of the @CastellanoGroup @NCStateChem with Lin Chen and Michael Mara @argonne and Xiaosong Li from @UWChemistry. Thanks to @doescience for funding! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to our spring 2024 graduates Dr. Michael Rosko and Emma Messina! 🎉🎉 Emma will be continuing to grad school The University of Washington. Our group also had a blast attending noble laureate Dave Macmillan’s talk as well as getting a chance to meet him!

Congrats to our undergrad researcher Emma Messina for presenting her senior thesis! “Photocatalyzed Hyperpolerization of Nitrate using Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange”. Her hard work and dedication have paid off! 🎉🎉

The group had a blast at the departments 25th annual poster session! Our 2nd year grad students @p3arladrienn3 and Conor McCormick presented posters as well as 3rd year student @AzkaArshad20 and post doc @AlexTBarth! Congrats to all who attended for the great work shown off!

Congrats to our latest PhD graduate, Dr @MC_Rosko ! 🎉

Congrats to @Jon_Wheel_99 for passing his prelim! Our newest PhD candidate! 🎉 Jon presented his work on Visible-Light Harvesting Cr(III) Photosensitizers.