June 7, 2022

Antonio Murrieta, a senior in Chemical Engineering is joining the group to work on polymeric nanofiber reinforcement of thin-film solar cells. Welcome Antonio!

May 14, 2022

Congrats to Allison Segapeli for graduating today! Allison was also honored with the Dr. William Scott Bousman Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in the Unit Operations laboratory. Allison will be pursuing her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin next year. Congrats Allison!!

May 9, 2022

Adam presented the group's research efforts in scalable printing of perovskites at the Materials Research Society Spring 2022 Meeting in Honolulu.

April 6, 2022

Congrats to Juliana Baltram for being selected to participate in the EMPOWER STEM Bootcamp experience!

March 23, 2022

Congrats to Matt Dailey for winning Honorable Mention for the Ford Fellowship!! 

January 10, 2022

We are excited to welcome five new undergrads to the group this semester. Welcome Daniella Roberts, Juliana Baltram, Dorian Werner, Omar Abutaleb, and Sophia Qamar!

January 1, 2022

Our program on multifunctional nanofiber reinforcement for printable solar cells was funded by the Department of Energy. Anton, Nick, and Chi will lead the efforts on this exciting project!

November 3, 2021

Congrats to Matt and Yanan on the publication of their mini-review in ACS Omega on how residual stresses in perovskites affect stability and performance, as well as mitigation strategies. 

October 5, 2021

Adam and Prof. Erin Ratcliff gave a talk to the College of Engineering alumni about the future of solar energy and their efforts to improve the technology and develop a diverse and workforce to be future leaders in the field.  See the talk here.

October 4, 2021

Congrats to Yanan for passing her oral comprehensive exam!

August 23, 2021

Welcome Anton Samoylov to the group! Anton is a first year graduate student who did his undergrad in chemical engineering at UCSD.

July 13, 2021

Congrats to Yanan, Matt, and Patrick on the publication of their review on organic additives for stability and performance enhancement in perovskite solar cells in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

July 7, 2021

Visiting scholar Michela Prete's work on the effects of carotenoid and silicone-based additives on the stability of organic photovoltaics was published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Congrats Michela! 

June 10, 2021

Our EMPOWER STEM program with Drs. Erin Ratcliff, Neal Armstrong, and Cody Nicholls has been funded by the Office of Naval Research! This program will serve to train student veterans from diverse backgrounds in printing of electronic materials.

June 1, 2021

Welcome to the group chemical engineering junior, Morgan Habkirk!

May 14, 2021

Congrats to Abdel Madina for graduating with his BS in Chemical Engineering! He is spending his summer working at an exciting internship with Freeport McMoRan.

March 25, 2021

Great news for the group today. Our project on RAPID printing of perovskite films has been selected for funding from the 2020 DOE SETO Perovskite Program! https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/solar-energy-technologies-office-fiscal-year-2020-perovskite-funding-program

March 16, 2021

Allison has been selected as the ChEE Department nominee for the prestigious Thomas G. Chapman Alumni Scholarship. Congratulations Allison!

October 29, 2020

Chemical engineering sophomore Mia Migliore has joined the group. Welcome Mia!

October 23, 2020

We are excited to have chemical engineering junior Allison Segapeli joining the group!

September 4, 2020

The Printz Group won a Core Facilities Pilot Program grant to study the effects of perovskite processing on its morphology!

August 24, 2020

We are excited to add two new graduate students, Matthew Dailey from the University of Utah and UArizona's own Patrick Lohr!

December 1, 2019

Abdel Madina, a junior chemical engineering major has joined our group. Welcome, Abdel!

September 9, 2019

We welcome our first postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Subham Dastidar! Subham comes to us from Aaron Fafarman's group at Drexel University.

August 26, 2019

Yanan Li, our first PhD student has joined the group!