8/15/2025

Congratulations to Jay on the CURO award!

8/2/2025

Jimmy, Sasha, and Vlad returned from the North American Solid State Chemistry Conference at Ames, Iowa. Congratulations to Sasha for receiving an award for best poster!

4/25/2025

Congratulations to Sasha, who received Martin Reynolds Smith Award for publishing the best research paper in a refereed journal in th elast year! Sasha collected data and wrote this manuscript for the Early Career Materials Researcher special issue in her first semester at UGA.

4/24/2025

Hope's project on the synthesis of precious metal HfCuSi₂ type compounds was supported by summer research grant!

4/16/2025

Hope's manuscript on the magnetic properties of UCu_xBi₂ phases has been accepted to JACS! We are grateful to all collaborators for their invaluable contributions!

3/25/2025

Vlad attended the ACS Spring meeting to celebrate Mercouri’s ACS Award in Chemistry of Materials.

12/02/2024

Sergei's manuscript on emissive halide materials has been accepted to JACS!

12/02/2024

Graduate students Makaela and Akhila joined the group. Welcome!

05/10/2024

Congratulations to Maria and Klayson with their graduation! Maria will continue her career in radiochemistry as a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, and Klayson will fulfill her dream of becoming a teacher by starting at Perry High School!

02/20/2024

Sasha's manuscript on perovskite solid solutions got accepted to MRS Communications! Congratualtions, Sasha, and thanks to all collaborators!

12/21/2023

Maria has received a prestigious Spring 2024 CURO Research Award! Congratualtions!

11/01/2023

Our Edinburgh Instruments FS5 spectrofluorometer have been installed!

08/25/2023

Our first manuscript got accepted to Crystal Growth & Design!

08/01/2023

We welcome threee new graduate students, Sasha Valueva, Maksim Tabatadze, and Kaige Wu, to our group!

06/04/2023

Hope Smith from Valdosta State University joins our group for the summer! Welcome, Hope!

04/14/2023

We are excited to have our glovebox installed!

03/21/2023

We are excited to have our PXRD instrument installed!

03/16/2023

Hope and Maria attended a poster conference in the Savannah River National Lab to present their synthesis of UCoBi₂ compounds.

01/07/2023

Undergraduate students Makaela Everett and Klayson Rummel joined the group! Makaela is studying uranium perovskites flux crystal growth and solid state synthesis. Klayson is working on large single crystals growth of intermetallic compounds.

08/25/2022

Graduate students James Casey and Yahya Absalan join the Klepov lab! Jimmy is excited to start sudying physical properties of intermetalic compounds and Yahya is looking forward to expand group's expertise in nanoparticles synthesis!

08/22/2022

Undergraduate student Maria Goncalves joins the lab! Maria got interested in nuclear chemistry during Nuclear Summer School and is very excited to work on uranium chemistry!

08/15/2022

Hope Long, our first group member, joins the lab! Hope is very enthusiastic about studying the synthesis of uranium (and other actinide) compounds!

08/01/2022

Vlad starts at UGA! The Klepov lab opens in a brand new iSTEM-2 building.