Education
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Princeton University
Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
Associate Professor of Chemistry
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Princeton University
Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
Materials and solid-state chemistry, organic and hybrid semiconductors, optoelectronics, solar energy harvesting, crystal engineering, x-ray diffraction
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2019)
Stevens Provost’s Early Career Award for Research Excellence (2019)
New York University Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012-2014)
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2009-2012)
A. Alaei, A. Circelli, Y. Yuan, Y. Yang, S.S. Lee. "Polymorphism in Metal Halide Perovskites." Accepted, Materials Advances (2020). Selected as a 2020 HOT article.
Y. Yang, J. Robbins, L. Ezeonu, Y. Ma, N. Sparta, X. Kong, S. Strauf, S. Podkolzin, S.S. Lee. "Probing lattice vibrations of stabilized CsPbI3 polymorphs via low-frequency Raman spectroscopy." Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8, 8896 (2020).
K. Zong, K. M. Asawa, A. Circelli, N. Sparta, C.-H. Choi, S.S. Lee. "Graphoepitaxy-directed assembly of organic semiconductor single crystals into trellis structures." ACS Materials Letters, 2, 721 (2020).
X. Kong, K. Zong, S.S. Lee. "Nanoconfining optoelectronic materials for enhanced performance and stability." Chemistry of Materials, 31, 4953 (2019). Invited as part of the "Up & Coming" Perspective Series to showcase the work of up-and-coming early career scientists.
K. Zong, J. Ly, Y. Ma, K. Shayan, E. Renjilian, C. Hu, S. Strauf, A. Briseno, S.S. Lee. “Directing solution-phase nucleation of vertical organic semiconductor crystal arrays.” Crystal Growth & Design, 19, 3461 (2019).
X. Kong, K. Shayan, S. Hua, S. Strauf, S.S. Lee. “Complete suppression of detrimental perovskite polymorph transitions in all-inorganic perovskites via nanoconfinement.” ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2, 2948 (2019).
J. He, X. Kong, Y. Wang, M. Delaney, D.M. Kalyon, S.S. Lee. “Crystallization-arrested viscoelastic phase separation in semiconducting polymer gels.” ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 1, 500 (2019).
Z. Jia, J.-H. Kim, G.-R. Yi, S.S. Lee. “Transition of DEP-assembled 2D crystals to interlocking structures under a magnetic field.” Langmuir, 34, 12412 (2018).
X. Kong, K. Shayan, S. Lee, C. Ribeiro, S. Strauf, S.S. Lee. “Remarkable long-term stability of nanoconfined metal-halide perovskite crystals against degradation and polymorph transitions.” Nanoscale, 10, 8320 (2018).
X. Bai, K. Zong, J. Ly, J.S. Mehta, M. Hand, K. Molnar, S. Lee, B. Kahr, J.M. Mativetsky, A. Briseno, S.S. Lee. “Orientation control of solution-processed organic semiconductor crystals improves out-of-plane charge mobility.” Chemistry of Materials, 29, 7571 (2017).
Z. Jia, S. Sacanna, S.S. Lee. “Dielectrophoretic assembly of dimpled colloids into open packing structures.” Soft Matter, 13, 5724 (2017).
S. Lee, J. Feldman, S.S. Lee. “Nanoconfined crystallization of MAPbI3 to probe crystal evolution and stability.” Crystal Growth & Design, 16, 4744 (2016).