Contact Information

Kristie J. Koski

Email  qvas -at- stanford.edu

Address  327 McCullough Hall

                   476 Lomita Mall

                   Stanford University

                   Stanford CA, 94305

TEL  (650) 723-7340

I am a postdoc in Yi Cui’s Nanomaterials Science & Engineering group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. I’m a physical chemist with a diverse background that allows me to span many fields from the chemical to the biological. Scientifically, I’m driven by the question: how do macroscopic behaviors arise from atomistic and microscopic properties?

My research focus is in 2D layered nanomaterials. Motivated by the exciting success of the most famous 2D layered nanomaterial, graphene, this is a new and exciting field with much promise both in applications and fundamental science. Two-dimensional layered materials pervade many diverse applications such as: batteries, electrochromics, thermoelectrics, basic dish soap, and solid lubricants. They are of significant interest in fundamental science, particularly in two-dimensional physics and chemistry, because they exhibit unique behaviors such as intercalation, topological insulators, charge density waves, and superconductivity. When the dimensionality of a material is reduced, new and exciting quantum and structural behaviors arise. Scaling down 2D layered materials into the nanoscale opens up many new avenues in fundamental research and applied science.

My research involves the many aspects of 2D layered nanomaterials including developing new synthetic grown methods, new methods to chemically tune these nanomaterials - especially in the development of new methods of intercalation chemistry, and in the investigation of the unusual physics and chemistry exhibited in these materials.

NEWS!

Dr. Koski will be moving to Brown University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry!