Ruggiero Group

News and views from the Ruggiero #Terahertz Group at @URochesterChem, and @URChE_Dept. Follow for lots of exciting developments into #THz science!

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Applications are OPEN for our 2026 @NSF funded IRES program. Spend 10 weeks performing research on dynamic crystals in beautiful Italy, all expenses paid! Must be a US citizen/perm. resident to apply. Please share widely! @UofR @URochesterChem @LucaCataz

https://t.co/QXd0UJomgf

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Just posted on @ChemRxiv - a collaboration with the great @URochesterChem @MatsonLab, we use #THz spectroscopy to help reveal bonding information for heavy element (uranium) complexes. A great team effort and new direction for our group!

https://t.co/B584PEn899

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Excited to share this recent paper on using #MachineLearning methods to generate quantum vibrational dynamics through a modified QM-ML workflow. Great work from the team, with a cameo from the anharmonicity king @davidemitoli. Now out on @ChemRxiv

https://t.co/PS1KgmwGri

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I agree with the highlighted. Too bad @JeffBezos doesn’t practice what his newspaper preaches. RIP @washingtonpost, you had a good run.

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Check out the fun that the 2025 cohort had here:
https://t.co/dVyQ3Wotbr

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Applications are OPEN for our 2026 @NSF funded IRES program. Spend 10 weeks performing research on dynamic crystals in beautiful Italy, all expenses paid! Must be a US citizen/perm. resident to apply. Please share widely! @UofR @URochesterChem @LucaCataz

https://t.co/QXd0UJomgf

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

This is a cool one! We realize that thermally-initiated solid-state reactions are driven by terahertz phonons. Love how straightforward and clean this story is - the paper basically wrote itself! Much more soon! @ItsBenPartridge @URochesterChem @ChemRxiv

https://t.co/wpjUgvM2Of

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Training him right #lasers @rocRMSC

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Just posted @ChemRxiv - we move from MOFs to COFs, with a slew of cool techniques that explain why a modified version of COF-300 can form a closed-pore structure. Great work from a new collaboration with @aet_ice and @rigaku. @LucaCataz @URochesterChem

https://t.co/eqn3bzUvoE

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

If you are at @Materials_MRS #MRS2025 be sure to check out group member Alejandro Alvarez from @UofR @ur_engineering MatSci program who has a poster and highlight oral presentation! @LucaCataz

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Excited about this one! We leveraged our understanding of lattice dynamics and resulting polymorphic transformations to purposefully design dynamic molecular solids. Great team effort @LucaCataz @URochesterChem @UofR @ChemRxiv

https://t.co/LmQckh2Uqf

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Join @ACSPublications at @UofR for a time of innovative, scientific exchange with leading experts in chemistry and get a FREE year of ACS Membership. Registration is open!! @URochesterChem

https://t.co/MwwroFJiaj

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Lots of delays but made it to Japan! Excited for stimulating discussions and seeing lots of friends. But first, a midnight izakaya, kanpai! @brozeklab @KyotoU_News @MingooJin @HokkaidoUni @riken_en @DanielMarkl

[Panče Naumov, PhD ACSF FRSC @Pance_Naumov]

The Smart Materials Lab (SML), the Center for Smart Engineering Materials (CSEM), and the UAE Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) are pleased to invite you to the 4th Middle Eastern Materials Science Conference (MEMS2026). This premier materials science conference will be held at NYU Abu Dhabi from March 30 to April ​1, 2026. Join us to engage with over 40 esteemed international speakers and more than 10 editors from leading journals, including Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, JACS, Nature Reviews Physics, Angewandte Chemie, and Chem. For more information, please visit our website​ @nyuniversity @NYUAbuDhabi @NYUADInstitute
https://t.co/KRFcMS94CR

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

@Pance_Naumov Looks amazing 🤩

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Really excited to welcome Moungi Bawendi, winner of the 2023 @NobelPrize in Chemistry, to our department for the annual student-driven Rothchild Lecture at @URochesterChem. Looking forward to his seminar tomorrow! @ChemistryMIT

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This paper is very cool - might be the coolest result of my career. We bent a flexible crystal, did some low-frequency confocal spectroscopy, and directly visualized intermolecular strain spectroscopically. @UofR @ChemRxiv @LucaCataz @URochesterChem

https://t.co/zDbg4cgdKS

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Congrats to @LucaCataz on winning the Italian Crystallographic Societies “Nardelli Prize” for his “important results in a research developed by using crystallographic methods”. Very well deserved! @UNIMORE_univ @UofR

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Group members Will Stoll and Johanna Kölbel crushed their talks at #IRMMW2025 today in Helsinki. Great work team! @UofR @URochesterChem

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Check out our most recent article in @JMaterChem C, which was just featured on the journal front cover! Great work to the team, collaborative between @UofR @URochesterChem, @riken_en, and @UNIMORE_univ @LucaCataz.

https://t.co/ngu0MZyLrU

[Ruggiero Group @RugGroup]

Playing with new toys in Germany @rigaku @RigakuOxfordXRD. Looking forward to seeing some cool new crystal structures! #3DED @UofR @URochesterChem