The Heath Lab

March, 2024. Natalie received an 'outstanding presenter' award for her talk, "Exfoliating and characterizing mm-size 2D MoS₂ films" at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.

March, 2024. Rubayat presented her research, "Temperature and frequency-dependent electric response conductive polymer composite" at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.

 Nov, 2023. Open Labs day at Reed College. We welcomed members of the community to try their hand at exfoliating 2D materials (graphene), to learn more about our research, and to tour our labs.

 Nov, 2023. Pratik presented his research, "Scanning Probe Microscopy of Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites," at the Murdock Undergraduate Research Conference in Vancouver, WA.

Oct, 2023. Rakshya Khatiwada received the Linfield University Outstanding Young Alumnus award. Rakshya's first research experience was in the Heath lab. She is now a Fermilab scientist and an assistant professor at Illinois Tech, studying quantum sensors for use in the search for dark matter.

Sept, 2023. Reed's student poster session! Rubayat, Daniel, Leo, Pratik, and Natalie each did an outstanding job presenting their summer research projects.

July, 2023. Trip to the Reed Cabin, Mt. Hood, Ramona Falls with the physics summer student researchers.

July, 2023. The collaborating teams from the Heath, Coates, and Hall groups are meeting regularly to share results and see what is going on in each of the labs.

June, 2023. Welcome the summer crew 2023– and thanks for sticking around a few weeks Amelia to make this a smooth transition. (L-R) Leo, Pratik, Natalie, Daniel, Rubayat, Prof. Jennifer Heath, Amelia.

May, 2023. Bhavana and Amelia are graduating! Congratulations on successful thesis defenses and best of luck at Cornell (Amelia) and Kings College, Cambridge (Bhavana).

1. Schaeffer, “Striking Gold: An Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Gold Nanoparticle-Polymer Interfaces” (Senior Thesis, Reed College, 2023).
2. Panchumarthi, “Dielectric Response of Bulk hBN” (Senior Thesis, Reed College, 2023).

March, 2023. We’re at the APS March meeting in Las Vegas. Amelia and Bhavana both did an excellent job presenting their research.

1. Schaeffer, J. Heath, N. Warren, A. Hyslop, N. Coates, and P. Hall, “Investigating Structure and Conductivity in a PEDOT:PSS and Au System”
2. Panchumarthi, “Dielectric response of bulk h-BN”

Sept., 2022. The Oxford-Asylum Cypher S scanning probe microscope has been installed… and it seems to work! We’re officially 'open for research'.

August, 2022. NSF funded our grant proposal, submitted with Paige Hall and Nelson Coates of University of Portland. “Collaborative Research: RUI: Effects of Interfacial Properties on Charge Transport in Conducting Organic/Inorganic Composites”. This will provide $266,000 to the Heath group over three years. NSF-DMR 2226953

August, 2022. New Faculty Startup award from The Murdock Charitable Trust. Together with funds provided by Reed College, this will help equip two my research space over the next few years. Thank you!