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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 22d

Big time lab milestone today, as the VanOrman Lab made their first nanocrystals! Very excited to see how many Caroline will make this semester! 🧪⚗️ #ChemSky

Two happy scientists in front of glowing nanocrystal solutions in small glass vials.

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Jul 31

Come be my colleague! Hope College Chemistry is hiring a tenure-track prof in General & Inorganic Chem starting Fall 2026. Great undergrad research culture, strong support, and a fantastic community. Apply by Sept 20: hope.edu/jobs #ChemJobs #facultyjobs #academicsky
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Celebrating a small (but exciting!) win today: the first chemicals for the VanOrman lab arrived today! ⚗️🧪 #ChemSky

Me giving a thumbs up in front of two chemical bottles.

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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · May 15

Celebrating ⁦‪Zach‘s Future PI news release with a little BBQ! 😎🎉☀️ #workhardplayhard #team @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · May 8

I’m thrilled to share that this fall, I’ll be joining Hope College in beautiful Holland, MI, as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry! Continuing Hope’s strong undergrad research tradition, my lab will make, tune, and measure semiconductor nanocrystals for many applications. #ChemSky 🧪 #AcademicSky

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · May 5

I’m very excited to share our latest work, published today un JACS. Together with some amazing scientists, we explore a new method for metal doping in perovskite nanocrystals, resulting in the ability to make very small and tunable NCs on the benchtop! #ChemSky ⚗️🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Metal Doping of Strongly Confined Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals under Ambient Conditions

Halide perovskite nanocrystals are promising materials for optoelectronic applications. Metal doping provides an avenue to boost their performance further, e.g., by enhancing light emission, or to pro...

pubs.acs.org

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thank you!

Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Apr 29

Excited to share our latest on exciton-phonon coupling in amazing Ge-based 2D metal halide semiconductors from the Sargent & Kanatzidis labs—narrow emission & great low-temp properties! Thanks to all these incredible coauthors! doi.org/10.1002/adma...
#ChemSky 🧪⚗️

Narrow‐Linewidth Emission and Weak Exciton‐Phonon Coupling in 2D Layered Germanium Halide Perovskites

The structural and photophysical properties of the 2D layered metal halides (4F-PMA)2GeI4 and (4F-PMA)2PbI4 are reported. For the Ge composition, reduced exciton-phonon coupling is found and the abse....

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Feb 19

Thank you!

Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Feb 18

Beyond discussing the potential types of materials in this class, we also go into depth on the relationship between chirality and spin, interesting chiral light-matter interaction, and also discuss how to characterize these phenomena. Very useful in my (biased) view!

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Feb 18

Happy to finally share our review on the broad (and quickly progressing!) field of chiral solution processable semiconductors! #ChemSky ⚗️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chiral light–matter interactions in solution-processable semiconductors - Nature Reviews Chemistry

Endowing chirality onto solution-processable semiconductors unlocks new bounds for their spin and optoelectronic properties. This Review discusses the synthesis, properties, characterization methods, ...

www.nature.com

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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · Jan 9

just your friendly neighborhood #nanocrystal magician tinkering happily in the lab🔦💡🌈🔮 @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social

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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Life goal unlocked: being the 1st in line as ⁦Flour Bakery opens its doors! Look at those treats🤤 getting caffeinated and sugared up for @materials-mrs.bsky.social ⁦‪⁦ #F24MRS with @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Nov 29

#Gpg indeed! The only tough thing about being over here is not being able to see the primetime games unless I want to get up at 2:30 AM to watch them 😂

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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · Nov 29

our first #Thanksgiving2024 in Switzerland was a huge success! not least thanks to teaming up with the Queen (of deep-fried turkey) Lab! ! :)

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Nov 29

It’s always more fun to make nanocrystals on #FluorescenceFriday! 🧪⚗️ #ChemSky

Photograph of luminescent nanocrystals in vials with a blacklight behind them. The emission becomes brighter and oranger from left to right.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Nov 25

We’re no experts but this sounds like it might be suboptimal for disseminating research.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Nov 25

Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled

He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it

Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Nov 24

Very cool! Some familiar words on mine! #ChemSky 🧪

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Nov 22

I am very happy to see many new and many more familiar names and faces on #ChemSky! Very excited to start sharing pictures of #glowythings again very soon!

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Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · Nov 16

Help me gather the nanoscience community here on #chemsky!

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Oct 4

It was a good day to make some Quantum Dots today! #ChemSky 🧪⚗️

3 vials containing quantum dots with green, blue, and orange emission, respectively.

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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · Oct 2

Hi all!
I am Sascha, a researcher at Harvard working on #sustainable #energy #materials!
Thanks to my brilliant team mate @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social I now see the light/blue sky, and look forward to checking out this place!😊

#AcademicSky #ChemSky #SciSky

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Hi all!

I’m Zach, I am currently a Chemistry postdoc at the Rowland Institute at Harvard. I work with semiconductor nanocrystals and perovskite materials. I liked posting pictures of my luminescent materials (glowy things) on the bird app, but 🤷🏻‍♂️

#AcademicSky #SciSky #ChemSky #HiSciSky

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