Our research focuses on controlling materials at the 100-nanometer scale and investigating their size and shape-dependent properties. We have developed massively parallel, multi-scale patterning tools to generate hierarchical, anisotropic, and 3D hard and soft materials with applications in imaging, sensing, wetting, and cancer therapeutics.
Reconfigurable Graphene Wrinkles with Area-Specific Structural Features
Graphene exhibit unique electronic properties and mechanical flexibility that are beneficial for next-generation electronics. Crumpling graphene on elastomer sheets can engineer the properties depending on wavelength and orientation while maintaining structural...
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- March 2020: The group’s paper, “Separation of Stabilized MOPS Gold Nanostars by Density Gradient Centrifugation,” has been included in ACS Omega‘s first-ever Virtual Issue, “Women at the Forefront of Chemistry.”
- March 2020: Priscilla’s collaborative paper with the University of Colorado, “Plasmonic nanostar photocathodes for optically-controlled directional currents,” has been published in Nature Communications.
- February 2020: Danqing’s paper, “Lasing from Finite Plasmonic Nanoparticle Lattices,” has been published in ACS Photonics.
- February 2020: The group’s collaborative paper with Nanyang Technological University, “Thermal‐Disrupting Interface Mitigates Intercellular Cohesion Loss for Accurate Topical Antibacterial Therapy,” has been published in Advanced Materials.