Jason Khoury

Preferential Site Ordering Alters the Magnetic Behavior of Sm3Ru4Sn13–xGex (x = 0–2) An important aspect of materials research is the ability to tune different physical properties through controlled crystallographic site substitution. The Remeika phase Ln3M4X13 (Ln = Lanthanide, M = T...

Our first paper from the lab is officially published! Glad to finally see this out. Check out Jacob Fritsky’s work and stay tuned for more 👀

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

In this manuscript, we show how preferential crystallographic occupancy can act as a design principle to tune different magnetic phases. Check it out!

Preferential site ordering alters the magnetic structure of Sm$_3$Ru$_4$Sn$_{13-x}$Ge$_x$ ($x = 0$-2) An important aspect of materials research is the ability to tune different physical properties through controlled alloying. The Ln$_3$M$_4$X$_{13}$ (Ln = Lanthanide, M = Transition Metal, X = Tetrel) ...

arxiv.org/abs/2507.13243

The first Khoury Lab preprint is officially online! This is my first paper as corresponding author, and my graduate student Jacob’s first first author paper.

Khoury Lab (left to right) HuiFei, Jacob, Jason, and Kshitish

Bowling

The Khoury Lab went bowling! We had a friendly competition with the Trovitch and Earley Groups in a joint outing.

Our outreach at the Arizona Science Center has been featured in ASU News! We developed solid state chemistry demonstrations for people all throughout the Phoenix area. Check it out:

news.asu.edu/b/20250604-g...

Genuinely alarming development in the NSF FY26 budget request to Congress. It proposes to end the NSF CAREER program entirely. If this program ends, junior researchers will have limited options for funding. Please contact your elected officials to let them know #savensf

A picture of me at the quantum foundry workshop at UCSB

Jacob presenting a poster on his research.

I had a fantastic time at the Quantum Foundry workshop at UC Santa Barbara. Thank you to Ram Seshadri and Stephen Wilson for the invite. I gave a talk and my student Jacob was able to present a poster on his work.

I think about this quote all the time.

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

Everyone who cares about public health should read this incredibly informative essay (by an NIH employee) to understand the game plan for the next few months—how the cuts & rules stopping NIH from spending $ right now could let them destroy NIH’s budget for a decade

We need to make this well known

The Khoury Lab is educating the public in materials chemistry! We’re at the learning lab in the Arizona Science Center doing Solid-State Chemistry demonstrations.

Multiple milestones for the Khoury Lab this week for our undergrads! Marie Byrne defended her honors thesis, and Rohan Bulusu was recognized as the ASU nominee for the ACS Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry.

Jacob after passing his exam

A milestone for the Khoury Lab! Congrats to 2nd year graduate student Jacob Fritsky for passing his comprehensive exam with flying colors 🎉🥳👏

Writing a grant is like a rollercoaster because you feel the excitement of a fun and interesting idea coming together, but the fear that other people won’t feel the same way.

NSF says it’s reinstating fired probationary employees The National Science Foundation is reinstating probationary employees following a court ruling on the firings.

Amidst all the uncertainty lately, this is genuinely a relief.

fedscoop.com/nsf-says-its...

Josh giving his talk on goniopolar materials

I’m excited to host Josh Goldberger from The Ohio State University for our ASU SMS Seminar! @asu-sms.bsky.social

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

Anyone doing basics science knows that we're barely making ends meet with the grants, particularly if your primarily nsf funded. The budget hasn't increased with student and postdoc salary (primarily cost of grants). Meeting it 1/3 kills all science everywhere

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Excellence in scientific research is what actually made America great. We all have a responsibility to oppose this. The NSF should have a higher budget and more personnel, not less.

I feel like I use calendar invites exponentially more since I became a prof.

The new signs bringing greater understanding to organic chemistry Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone

This is so cool. I wonder if we can do signs like this for inorganic and solid state chemistry too. There’s no reason we can’t use signs for mirror planes, screw axes, or inversion centers to make them easier for hard-of-hearing people to understand.

www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

I just want to be able to do my job with the normal stressors, not all of this added uncertainty too.

Per an NIH source:

“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

Joe talking about his work.

I’m excited to host Prof. Joe Subotnik of Princeton University as part of our @asu-sms.bsky.social seminar series!

I had a lot of fun presenting a workshop on quantum materials to undergrads at the #MateriAlZ Winter School!

Jacob explaining how to use Python.

The Khoury lab is at the second #MateriAlZ Winter School this week! 2nd year graduate student Jacob Fritsky is giving a workshop to materials chemistry undergraduates on how to plot data with Python.

There are more things in other areas and user facilities, but it’s great to feel tangible progress. I no longer feel like we have to wait to do experiments anymore, and it’s an awesome thing.

Our home built vacuum sealing line with blow torch. This one took a while to test and get set up so I’m really proud of

A tube furnace in a hood for chemical vapor transport reactions

Our Bruker D6 Phaser Powder Diffractometer in reflection geometry. This is our workhorse for identifying crystalline phases.

Our Vigor double Glovebox with embedded microscope. We can check on all of our air sensitive samples here!