Welcome!
Come to our Group Meetings, Mondays at 5pm.
Welcome to our group specializing in solid-state inorganic chemistry. Our research encompasses a wide range of areas, including exploratory synthesis in chalcogenides and multianionic materials, thermoelectric applications, hard radiation detectors, and the discovery of hybrid perovskite/perovskitoid materials for solar cells. We invite you to explore our website and delve into our exciting research endeavors.
Our objective is to advance and broaden the "exploratory synthesis" and "synthesis science loop" to bolster materials design, discovery, and synthetic methodology.
Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis was recently elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences! Learn more about this honor here.
The International Mineralogical Society recently named a new mineral discovered in Hungary Kanatzidisite, in recognition of the contributions Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis has made in the field of chalcogenide chemistry. This mineral has the formula (BiSbS3)2Te2. Learn more about Kanatzidisite here and here!
Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis was recently awarded the ACS William H. Nichols Medal. Read more here.
Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Learn more about this honor here.
Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis recently received an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich. Read more here.
Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis was awarded the 2025 Albert Einstein World Award of Science! Read more here.
New ACS Energy Letters Viewpoint: "The First Solid-State Halide Perovskite Solar Cell" revisits the Northwestern University origins of solid-state halide perovskite photovoltaics and the discoveries that helped launch the field. Read more here.
Meet the group at Argonne
You can find old group photos on the alumni page found here.
Want to know how to make alkali metal chalcogenides like potassium sulfide or sodium selenide? Check out our how to video here!