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New Publication in Chemical Science: Linking Low-Frequency Dynamics to Actinide-Ligand Bonding
Our new work, “Terahertz dynamics at the actinide frontier: linking low-frequency vibrations, electronic structure, and bonding in molecular uranium complexes” was just published in Chemical Science. A big thank you to our fantastic collaborators in the Matson group for another successful joint effort. In this paper, we apply low-frequency vibrational spectroscopy to study the nature […]
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Michele attends the Los Alamos Computational Condensed Matter Summer School 2026
This past June, I had the incredible opportunity to spend two weeks at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Computational Condensed Matter Summer School. As a PhD student working with actinide compounds, LANL is definitely the place to go if you want to learn how to model these systems, and understand why standard density functional […]
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Ruggiero Group Attends the 2026 Crystal Engineering GRC
We just returned from our travels to Newry, Maine for the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering: Design, Assembly, and Function. The meeting brought together researchers from across crystal engineering, solid-state chemistry, materials science, and molecular design for a week of talks, posters, and many lively (sometimes even scientific) discussions. The week began with the […]