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Zach VanOrman

@zacharyvanorman.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hope College. Working on halide perovskites and nanocrystals of all shapes and flavors. Chemist, lover of sports, #glowythings, and dogs. #ChemSky

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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Lots of #ProudPI moments last week when my excellent students Alex and Caroline presented their research from my group at CURCA here at Hope College. Stay tuned for some of their very exciting and cool findings 👀 ⚗️🧪
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I hope you have as much fun reading this review in ChemRev as I had writing it. It was lots of fun teaming up with Lea and Colette again! Also pretty awesome to see a Hope College affiliation next to my name at last 🥲 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Lead the Way: Halide Perovskites as Next-Generation Triplet Sensitizers for Photon Upconversion
Photon upconversion, the process of converting low-energy photons to higher energy ones, shows promise for applications in solar energy, photocatalysis, biomedicine, and additive manufacturing. In tri...
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Big time lab milestone today, as the VanOrman Lab made their first nanocrystals! Very excited to see how many Caroline will make this semester! 🧪⚗️ #ChemSky
Two happy scientists in front of glowing nanocrystal solutions in small glass vials.
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Come be my colleague! Hope College Chemistry is hiring a tenure-track prof in General & Inorganic Chem starting Fall 2026. Great undergrad research culture, strong support, and a fantastic community. Apply by Sept 20: hope.edu/jobs #ChemJobs #facultyjobs #academicsky ⚗️🧪
Photo of the arch at Hope College
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Celebrating a small (but exciting!) win today: the first chemicals for the VanOrman lab arrived today! ⚗️🧪 #ChemSky
Me giving a thumbs up in front of two chemical bottles.
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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Celebrating ⁦‪Zach‘s Future PI news release with a little BBQ! 😎🎉☀️ #workhardplayhard #team @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m thrilled to share that this fall, I’ll be joining Hope College in beautiful Holland, MI, as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry! Continuing Hope’s strong undergrad research tradition, my lab will make, tune, and measure semiconductor nanocrystals for many applications. #ChemSky 🧪 #AcademicSky
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I’m very excited to share our latest work, published today un JACS. Together with some amazing scientists, we explore a new method for metal doping in perovskite nanocrystals, resulting in the ability to make very small and tunable NCs on the benchtop! #ChemSky ⚗️🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Metal Doping of Strongly Confined Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals under Ambient Conditions
Halide perovskite nanocrystals are promising materials for optoelectronic applications. Metal doping provides an avenue to boost their performance further, e.g., by enhancing light emission, or to pro...
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Excited to share our latest on exciton-phonon coupling in amazing Ge-based 2D metal halide semiconductors from the Sargent & Kanatzidis labs—narrow emission & great low-temp properties! Thanks to all these incredible coauthors! doi.org/10.1002/adma... #ChemSky 🧪⚗️
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Narrow‐Linewidth Emission and Weak Exciton‐Phonon Coupling in 2D Layered Germanium Halide Perovskites
The structural and photophysical properties of the 2D layered metal halides (4F-PMA)2GeI4 and (4F-PMA)2PbI4 are reported. For the Ge composition, reduced exciton-phonon coupling is found and the abse....
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Happy to finally share our review on the broad (and quickly progressing!) field of chiral solution processable semiconductors! #ChemSky ⚗️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chiral light–matter interactions in solution-processable semiconductors - Nature Reviews Chemistry
Endowing chirality onto solution-processable semiconductors unlocks new bounds for their spin and optoelectronic properties. This Review discusses the synthesis, properties, characterization methods, ...
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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
just your friendly neighborhood #nanocrystal magician tinkering happily in the lab🔦💡🌈🔮 @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social
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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Life goal unlocked: being the 1st in line as ⁦Flour Bakery opens its doors! Look at those treats🤤 getting caffeinated and sugared up for @materials-mrs.bsky.social ⁦‪⁦ #F24MRS with @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social
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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
our first #Thanksgiving2024 in Switzerland was a huge success! not least thanks to teaming up with the Queen (of deep-fried turkey) Lab! ! :)
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It’s always more fun to make nanocrystals on #FluorescenceFriday! 🧪⚗️ #ChemSky
Photograph of luminescent nanocrystals in vials with a blacklight behind them. The emission becomes brighter and oranger from left to right.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 25/11/2024
We’re no experts but this sounds like it might be suboptimal for disseminating research.
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Very cool! Some familiar words on mine! #ChemSky 🧪
Cloud of words in various colors and sizes based on a Google Scholar profile. Some of the largest words include upconversion triplet halide bulk perovskites sensitizers doping perovskite perovskite-sensitized photon spectroscopy advances artifacts cdse circularly cpl fundamentals generation luminescence metal nanocrystals polarized progress surface 442023 adv advancements alignment anisotropic annihilation-based
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I am very happy to see many new and many more familiar names and faces on #ChemSky! Very excited to start sharing pictures of #glowythings again very soon!
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Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Help me gather the nanoscience community here on #chemsky!
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
It was a good day to make some Quantum Dots today! #ChemSky 🧪⚗️
3 vials containing quantum dots with green, blue, and orange emission, respectively.
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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Hi all! I am Sascha, a researcher at Harvard working on #sustainable #energy #materials! Thanks to my brilliant team mate @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social I now see the light/blue sky, and look forward to checking out this place!😊 #AcademicSky #ChemSky #SciSky
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Zach VanOrman @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Hi all! I’m Zach, I am currently a Chemistry postdoc at the Rowland Institute at Harvard. I work with semiconductor nanocrystals and perovskite materials. I liked posting pictures of my luminescent materials (glowy things) on the bird app, but 🤷🏻‍♂️ #AcademicSky #SciSky #ChemSky #HiSciSky
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