People

Ryan
Beck
Graduate Student, Fifth Year, Ph.D. Candidate

rbeck4@uw.edu
311B Bagley Hall Department of Chemistry
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-1700


Education


Awards

  • 2016
    Benton Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed FellowshipUniversity of Washington
  • 2015
    Outstanding ChemistYork College of Pennsylvania


Publications

  1. Defect-Induced Magnetic Skyrmion in a Two-Dimensional Chromium Triiodide Monolayer
    Ryan A. Beck, Lixin Lu, Peter V. Sushko, Xiaodong Xu, and Xiaosong Li
    JACS Au2021, DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00142
  2. Spectroscopic Signatures of the B and H4 Polyatomic Nitrogen Aggregates in Nanodiamond
    Ryan A. Beck, Lixin Lu, Alessio Petrone, Amanda C. Ong, Peter J. Pauzauskie, and Xiaosong Li
    J. Phys. Chem. C2020, 124, 18275-18283
  3. Simulating Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectra with Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in Gauge Including Atomic Orbitals
    S. Sun, R. Beck, D. B. Williams-Young, X. Li
    J. Chem. Theory Comput.2019, 15, 6824-6831
  4. High Pressure, High Temperature Molecular Doping of Nanodiamond
    M. Crane, A. Petrone, R. A. Beck, M. Lim, X. Zhou, X. Li, R. M. Stroud, P. Pauzauskie
    Sci. Adv.2019, 5, eaau6073
  5. Carboxylate Anchors Act as Exciton Reporters in 1.3 nm Indium Phosphide Nanoclusters
    J. Leger, M. Friedfeld, R. Beck, J. Gaynor, A. Petrone, X. Li, B. Cossairt, M. Khalil
    J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2019, 10, 1833–1839
  6. Electronic Structures and Spectroscopic Signatures of Silicon-Vacancy Containing Nanodiamonds
    A. Petrone, R. A. Beck, J. M. Kasper, X. Li, Y. Huang, M. Crane, and P. Pauzauskie
    Phys. Rev. B.2018, 98, 205405
  7. Effect of Surface Passivation on Nanodiamond Crystallinity
    R. Beck, A. Petrone, J. M. Kasper, M. Crane, P. Pauzauskie, X. Li
    J. Phys. Chem. C.2018, 122, 8573-8580