Potluck with the group!

We had a group potluck to celebrate the achievements of our group members.

SEMS 2026

Hashini and Lateefat presented their work at Southeastern Microscopy Society Meeting (SEMS) in Atlanta.

Congratulations to Lateefat Jimoh!

Congratulations to Lateefat Jimoh for winning Charles H. H. Griffith Outstanding General Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award at the UK College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry Graduation Ceremony 2026!

Congratulations Ian and Peyton!

Congratulations to Ian and Peyton on their participation in the regional undergraduate chemistry poster competition!

Ian Phrase – Second prize

Peyton McCubbin – Honorable mention

ACS Spring 2026

Ireshika presented her research work at the ACS Spring meeting in Atlanta.

GradTeach Live!

Congratulations to Lateefat Jimoh for winning the second Place and the People’s Choice Award at GradTeach Live, organized by the University of Kentucky Graduate School.

Leadership Development Award!

 Congratulations to Lateefat Jimoh on winning the Leadership Development Award from the Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) of the American Chemical Society.

Congratulations Hashini!

Congratulations to Hashini for passing her oral qualifying exam to become a PhD candidate and for winning the Steckler award!

Congratulations Lateefat!

Congratulations to Lateefat for passing her oral qualifying exam to become a PhD candidate and for winning the Steckler award!

Guiton group at AReMS (Appalachian Regional Electron Microscopy Society) Fall meeting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville!

Farewell to Kat!

Wishing all the best for her next chapter in Europe!

Congratulations Dr. Kathryn Pitton!

Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Pitton on the remarkable achievement of her graduation!

Celebrating the inspiring journey of Dr. Guiton, whose groundbreaking work continues to shape the future of materials science and inspire the next generation of scientists!

Read more about her research and mentorship : Chemistry’s Beth Guiton tests the tiniest of materials in the nano world | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Pitton and Lateefat Jimoh!

Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Pitton and Lateefat Jimoh for winning awards at the UK College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry Graduation Ceremony 2025!

Dr. Pitton – Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award

Lateefat – 100% Plus Award

Congratulations Dr. Kathryn Pitton!

Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Pitton for successfully defending her thesis!

Congratulations Ireshika!

Congratulations to Ireshika for passing her oral qualifying exam to become a PhD candidate and for winning the Steckler award!

Congratulations Beth!

We are happy to announce that Prof. Beth S. Guiton has been appointed to Federal Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.

To read more :

https://www.as.uky.edu/uk-professor-appointed-federal-fusion-energy-sciences-advisory-committee

Group Lunch!

Group lunch to celebrate the achievements of group members.

Congratulations Dr. Thisera!

Congratulations to Dr. Ayanthi Thisera on the remarkable achievement of her graduation!

Congratulations Dr. Manisha!

Congratulations to Dr. Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke on the remarkable achievement of her graduation!

Congratulations Rachel!

Congratulations to Rachel Moscona on the remarkable achievement of her graduation!

Congratulations to Dr. Manisha and Ireshika!

Congratulations to Dr. Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke and Ireshika Wickramasuriya for awards at the UK College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry Graduation Ceremony 2024!

Dr. Manisha – Outstanding Research Award

Ireshika – Charles H. H. Griffith Outstanding General Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award

Congratulations Dr. Manisha!

Congratulations to Dr. Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke for successfully defending her thesis.

Congratulations Dr. Thisera!

Congratulations to Dr. Ayanthi Thisera for successfully defending her thesis.

Guiton group at ACS!

Three graduate students presented their research work at the ACS Fall meeting 2023, in San Francisco

Congratulations to Ayanthi for winning the M&M Student Scholar Award at the Microscopy and Microanalysis Symposium 2023, held in Minneapolis for the paper titled ‘Investigation of metal-metal oxide interfaces via real-time in situ TEM heating’.

Congratulations to Kat for winning the 100% plus award at the UK College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry Graduation Ceremony 2023.

Congratulations Dr. Pham!

Congratulations to the seventh Guiton group PhD, Dr. Rose Pham.

Group Dinner!

Group dinner to celebrate the achievements of the past year especially Rose Pham’s graduation.

NNCI Nano + Additive Manufacturing Summit 2022

Several members attended the NNCI Nano + Additive Manufacturing summit held at University of Louisville.

Group Lunch

Group lunch to celebrate Ahamed Ullah’s PhD commencement.

Congratulations Dr. Ullah!

Congratulations to the sixth Guiton group PhD, Dr. Ahamed Ullah.

Congratulations Rose!

Congratulations Rose for winning the second prize at the 47th Annual Naff Symposium poster competition.

Group Lunch

First group gathering after the COVID -19 pandemic.

Congratulations to Kat and Manisha!

Congratulations to Kathryn Pitton and Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke for awards at the UK College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry Graduation Ceremony 2021!

Kat – Charles H. H. Griffith Outstanding General Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award

Manisha – Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas!

Congratulations to the fourth Guiton group Ph.D., Dr. Melonie Thomas!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to three of our members Melonie, Ahamed and Chloe for winning several awards at the UK College of Arts and Sciences, Chemistry Graduation Ceremony 2019!

Melonie – Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award

Ahamed – 100% Plus Award

Chloe – General Chemistry Excellence Award

Congratulations to Melonie!

Congratulations to Melonie for winning a distinction award for an outstanding poster presentation at the KY NSF EPSCoR, Super Collider.

Group Dinner

Group dinner to celebrate the achievements of the past year.

Group dinner

Group dinner to celebrate Lei Yu’s PhD commencement as well as Yetta Han’s Masters.

Guiton attends Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s Scialog meeting on AES

Beth Guiton attends the first Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage (AES) meeting in Tucson, Arizona. Read more about the conference here.

Congratulations Melonie!

Congratulations to Melonie Thomas for her 3rd place in the Oak Ridge / Knoxville Chapter of ASM International poster competition!

Congratulations to Lei Yu on her defense!

Congratulations to Lei Yu on her successful PhD defense!

Hafnia dons a new face!

Congratulations to Bethany for her paper appearing in Nature Communications! Read more here!

Alexa receives A&S certification for outstanding teaching.

Congratulations Alexa!

Celebrating Alexa becoming PhD candidate.

Congratulations Alexa!

Congratulations to Alexa!

For passing her oral qualifying exam to become a PhD candidate.

Congratulations to Dr. Hudak and Dr. Chang

Congratulations to the first two Guiton Group Ph.D.s, Dr. Hudak and Dr. Chang!

Negative metal oxide nanowire arrays

Congratulations to Lei for her paper, developing the solid–liquid–vapor synthesis for negative metal oxide nanowire arrays (appearing in Chemistry of Materials, online Dec 14, 2016).

Li diffusion in Li-doped ZnO nanowires

Congratulations to Guohua for his paper in journal Material Research Express!

CoxNi4−xSb12−ySny skutterudites

Congratulations to Beth for her cover article in Journal of Material Science!

Manganese containing spinel nanowires!

Congratulations to Lei for her paper appearing in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry!

Congratulations to Bethany!

Congratulations to Bethany, 2nd place poster competition winner for the first annual UK Postdoctoral Symposium!

Congratulations to Beth!

Congratulations to Dr. Beth Guiton, recipient of an NSF CAREER Award!! Read more…

“Pac-Man” nanoparticles etch metal oxide nanowires

Congratulations to Bethany for her first paper! Appearing in ACS Nano, May 13, 2014.

We use in situ heating in the TEM to observe the solid-liquid-vapor dissolution of individual tin(IV) oxide nanowires in real-time.

P-n junction zinc oxide nanowires

Congratulations to Guohua for his paper, appearing in Nanoscale, online January 29, 2013.

We develop a low-temperature synthesis to create single axial p-n homojunctions within individual ZnO nanowires.

Plasmon mapping of single-molecule SERS-active clusters

Appearing in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, online August 3, 2012.

Our EELS mapping technique is applied to a cluster of nanoparticles known to be single-molecule SERS active.

Plasmon mapping of silver nanorods

Our work to map the complex plasmon modes of high aspect ratio nanostructures appears in Nano Letters (published online July 6, 2011).Using electron energy loss spectroscopy, we map the spatial distribution of the many overlapping localized surface plasmon resonances in a series of silver nanorods.