DEC Dr. Yu gave an invited seminar in Materials Science & Engineering at Carnegie Mellon Univ. Thanks for kind invitation!

DEC Dr. Yu delivered two invited talks at MRS Fall in Boston in Symp LL “Large scale energy storage systems” and Symp B “Smart Materials”. Thanks for kind invitations!

NOV Dr. Yu’s Visiontalk at Future Tech Congress 2015 in Wolfsburg invited by 2b AHEAD THINKTANK in Germany has been published online!

NOV Our research on self-healing gel is featured in UT University NewsKUT News, Space Daily, Network World, Engineering360ScienceDailygizmag and DesignNews.

NOV Dr. Yu was invited by MRS to comment on hydrogel superglue work.

NOV Our review article about Li-redox flow batteries published in Chem. Soc. Rev. has been featured as Cover Article.

OCT Dr. Yu delivered an invited talk in 2015 GrapChina conference in Qingdao, China, thanks for the organizers’ invitation!

OCT Dr. Yu gave an invited talk in College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Nanjing Univ.

OCT Ye Shi was awarded a Professional Development Award by the UT Graduate School. Congrat!

OCT Our work on "Controlled Synthesis of Nanostructured Conductive Polymer Hydrogels" has been published in Nano Lett.!

OCT Dr. Yu gave two invited talks at 228th ECS Meeting in Phoenix, thanks for the organizers’ invitations!

OCT Ye Shi was awarded competitive Nano Portfolio Program Travel Award for Graduate Student. Congrats!

OCT Our self-healing hybrid gel work has been featured in ME department website at UT.

SEP Dr. Yu attended the invited event 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium by National Academy of Engineering, great meeting many new scientists and engineers friends!

SEP Our joint work with PNNL and PSU on in-situ TEM study of Si-gel battery anode has been published in Nano Lett.!

SEP Our semi-liquid Li-ferrocene battery work has been featured in Materials360 website (MRS)!

AUG Our self-healing hybrid gel work has been featured in Nanowerk, and Phys.Org..

AUG  Our invited article in Nanoscale was selected as "HOT Article" and featured in Nanoscale Blog.

AUG Our second significant Review article about Li-redox flow batteries to Chem. Soc. Rev. has been published. Congrats to Yu Zhao and Yu Ding!

JUL Our postdoc alumnus Yu Zhao just started at Soochow University in China as a full professor. Big congrats!

JUL Dr. Yu gave an invited talk at International Symposium on Two-Dimensional Materials hosted at Nanjing University.

JUL Dr. Yu gave an invited talk in School of Chemistry and Materials Science at USTC, his Alma mater!

JUL Our Invited Feature article on nanostructured conductive hydrogels has been published in Nanoscale.

JUN Dr. Yu delivered two invited talks at ICMAT 2015 in Singapore (IUMRS & S-MRS) and Nanyang Technological Univ.(NTU). Thanks for invitations, and great to meet up many old and new friends!

JUN Dr. Yu delivered an invited Visiontalk at Future Tech Congress 2015 in Wolfsburg. Thanks for invitation from 2b AHEAD THINKTANK,  the most influential tech trend research institute in Germany!

JUN Our work on ferrocene-based liquid battery published in Nano Lett. is highlighted in the journal FrontPage, as well as one of 'Most Accessed Articles in May'.

JUN Our first Invited review article to Chem. Soc. Rev. has been published. Congrats to Ye and Lele!

MAY Lele was selected to receive Honorable Mention award for prestigious Link Foundation Energy Fellowship out of 128 competitive applicants nationwide, Congrats!

MAY Dr. Yu delivered an invited talk at Argonne National Lab, and established exciting collaboration with ANL.

MAY Dr. Yu was invited by 2b AHEAD THINKTANK Germany to Future Technology Congress 2015 as a feature speaker. Many thanks for kind invitation to this great event!

MAY Dr. Yu was invited to US Frontiers of Engineering symposium (US FOE) by National Academy of Engineering.

MAY  Yu's liquid battery work is featured in Phys.Org., NanotechWeb!

MAY Yu Ding's paper on "high-rate ferrocene-based liquid battery" was accepted in Nano Lett.. Congrats!

APR Chongbo and Ye's paper on "Thermally responsive hydrogel for drug release" was accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie.

APR Yu Ding won one of Best Graduate Student Poster awards in Nano Night competition. Congrats!

MAR  Dr. Yu was selected as a featured speaker by C&EN and a ‘Rockstar of Chemistry’ in 2015 ACS Spring meeting.

MAR  Dr. Yu delivered two invited talks in 2015 ACS Spring meeting in Denver. Thanks for kind invitations.

MAR Our work on "Ternary Li-ion Battery Anodes" published in Nano Lett. is highlighted as one of 'Most Accessed Articles of 2014'.

MAR Our work on "2D ZnMn2O4/Graphene Li-ion Battery Anode" published in ACS Nano is highlighted as one of 'Most Accessed Articles of 2014'.

MAR Our work on "Polypyrrole hydrogels based flexible supercapacitor" published in J. Mater. Chem. A is highlighted as one of  '2014 Most Accessed Articles'.

MAR Ye’s research poster awarded "Outstanding" in ME Graduate Poster Competition.

FEB Dr. Yu gave an invited talk in Pacific Northwest National Lab, and Great to visit friends and collaborators!

FEB Our invited Feature Review on "Rational design and applications of conducting polymer hydrogels as electrochemical biosensors" is accepted in J. Mater. Chem. B.

FEB Dr. Yu was selected as 'Austin Under 40' Award Finalist in Science/Technology category.

FEB Dr. Yu received 3M Nontenured Faculty Award.

JAN Our group has been invited to write a Tutorial Review for Chem. Soc. Rev. (one of the most prestigious Chemistry Review journals!) on topic of nanostructured redox polymers for advanced energy storage.

JAN Our recent work on "nanostructured conductive hydrogels-based biosensors" published in Nano Letters becomes Most Read Articles in January.

JAN Dr. Yu and our research was featured in 2014 Texas Engineering Achievements by UT Cockrell School.

JAN Lele and Pan’s paper on 2D nanosheet materials based full Li-ion battery is accepted in Nano Energy.

JAN NanotechWeb features our work for “Conducting hydrogel makes a good biosensor", and Nanowerk features our work for "Multiplexing biosensors on a chip for human metabolite detection".

JAN  Lanlan and Yaqun’s paper on developing nanostructured conductive hydrogels-based biosensors is accepted in Nano Letters.

JAN  Our joint review on 2D energy materials is highlighted in media, Science News, Nanotech-Now, Green Car Congress.

JAN  Our joint review with other scientists from US/Europe/Asia on "2D materials for energy conversion and storage" is published in Science