DEC Our review on "Hybrid nanostructured materials for electrochemical capacitors" is Top 5 Most Cited Article in Nano Energy.
DEC Ye and Chongbo's paper on "Conductive Smart Hybrid Hydrogels" was accepted for publication in Adv. Funct. Mater..
DEC Dr. Yu delivered two invited talks in 2014 MRS Fall meeting in Boston. Thanks for kind invitations.
NOV Dr. Yu delivered an invited talk in 2014 Lithium Battery Power organized by Knowledge Foundation.Thanks for kind invitation.
NOV The team by Dr. Yu and a few other scientists has been selected to organize a symposium on "Advances in Flexible Energy Devices" at 2015 Fall MRS meeting.
OCT Dr. Yu and our research have been profiled in Reporting Texas and Austin Statesman.
SEP Dr. Yu will be co-organizing the 2015 Spring ACS symposium on "2D Materials for Energy/Fuel".
SEP Our work on "2D ZnMn2O4/Graphene Li-ion Battery Anode" published in ACS Nano is listed No.1 in Top 20 Most Read Articles in August.
SEP Our work on "Ternary Li-ion Battery Anodes" and "Multifunctional Superhydrophobic Surfaces" published in Nano Lett. become the No.1 and No.2 in Top 20 Most Read Articles in August.
SEP Yu's paper on "Amorphous Silicon Honeycomb Anodes" was accepted for publication in Chem. Commun..
SEP We have contributed two invited book chapters for Springer and Woodhead Publishing on topics of ‘electrochemical hierarchical composites’ and ‘self-assembly of 1D nanostructures’.
AUG MIT Technology Review has named Dr. Yu one of the world’s Top 35 Innovators Under Age 35 this year. And UT News also reported.
AUG Our work on "Ternary Li-ion Battery Anodes" and "Multifunctional Superhydrophobic Surfaces" published in Nano Lett. become Top 20 Most Read Articles in July.
AUG Dr. Yu gave two invited talks at ACS Fall meeting in SF, and thanks for invitations.
AUG Dr. Yu co-lead the ACS Fall symp on ‘Carbon-based Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage’. We thank many distiguished scientists to speak in our symp.
AUG Yu Ding and Yu Zhao's paper on "Ferrocene/ferrocenium redox based energy storage" was accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie.
JUL Pan and Borui's paper on "2D Hybrid Zinc Manganate/Graphene Nanosheets for Li-ion battery anodes" was accepted for publication in ACS Nano.
JUL C&EN features our work for “Durable, Stretchable Coating Repels Water".
JUL NanotechWeb features our work for “Hydrogel Matrix for Superhydrophobic Surfaces".
JUL Lele and Yu’s paper on "Self-assembled LiFePO4 nanowires" was accepted for publications in Chem. Comm..
JUN Our group was invited to comment in Chemistry World on ‘Multifunctional Structural Energy Materials’. It's also featured in Scientific American!
JUN Yaqun and Ye’s paper on "Multifunctional Superhydrophobic Surfaces Templated From Innately Microstructured Hydrogel Matrix" is published in Nano Lett..
JUN Dr. Yu was invited to 2nd Graphene Chinese Youth Forum hosted in Harbin Institute of Tech. Thanks for kind invitation.
JUN Dr. Yu has been invited to ‘2014 International Symposium on Electrochemical Energy’ hosted in Shanghai Jiaotong University and ‘9th Sino-US Symposium on Nanoscale Science and Technology’ in Tianjin. Thanks for invitations.
MAY Dr. Yu has been invited to serve as panelist for two NSF programs. Thanks for kind invitation.
MAY Junior undergrad Chris Tran joined our group for summer research experience. Welcome aboard, Chris!
MAY Dr. Yu has been invited to 2014 Lithium Battery Power Conference hosted by Knowledge Foundation. Thanks and cheers!
MAY Dr. Yu gave an invited talk in the Battery Division at 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Orlando. Thanks and cheers!
MAY Our recent work on "single crystalline LiFePO4 nanosheets as high-rate cathode" published in Nano Letters in April becomes Most Read Articles!
APR Dr. Yu has been invited to give talks at both MRS and ACS 2014 Fall meetings in Boston and San Francisco. Thanks for kind invitations.
APR NanotechWeb highlights our work for “Facet-controlled nanosheets Improve Li-ion batteries”.
APR Our recent work on "single crystalline LiFePO4 nanosheets as high-rate cathode" has been published in Nano Lett..
APR Dr. Yu is profiled as one of emerging investigators in J. Mater. Chem.
MAR Dr. Yu attended the ACS Spring Meeting in Dallas and lead organized the symp on “2D Materials for Energy and Fuels”. He has been invited to co-organize the Fall Meeting on “Carbon Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage”.
MAR Our recent work on "4V-based Lithium-bromine rechargeable battery based on hybrid aqueous/aprotic electrolytes" is accepted for publication in Energy Environ. Sci..
MAR Our recent work on "Polypyrrole hydrogels based flexible supercapacitor" is published in J. Mater. Chem. A, and soon it becomes the TOP 10 Most Read.
MAR Our group participated in the Explore UT Event--'The Biggest Open House in Texas', arising the public awareness of 'nanoscience for energy challenges'.
FEB Our group reached out to 'Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day' (Girl Day), introducing to the girls the world of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
JAN Our battery anode work has been selected and featured by the Department of Mechanical Engineering and its UT Twitter site.
JAN Our collaborative work with Stanford on hydrogel-based pressure sensors has appeared online in Nature Communications.