APR UTexas Research Highlights Yr2025 Video features our research on Hydrogels for Sustainable Water Harvesting and Solar Purification!
APR Dr. Yu was invited to give 2026 VINSE Students' Selected Annual Seminar at Vanderbilt University! Pleased to interact with many great students working on nanoscience & technology, and honored to join the speaker list of prominent scientists over the years.
APR Dr. Yu was invited to serve as Vice Jury Chair for Falling Walls Foundation's Science Breakthroughs Award 2026 in Engineering & Technology!
APR Congrats to Weixin Guan and Chuxin Lei for great thesis defense in this spring, becoming official outstanding doctors Dr.!
MAR Texas Mechanical Engineer Magazine features the National Collegiate Inventors Competition Award for Weixin and Yaxuan!
MAR Dr. Yu was invited to the Scientific Selection Committee (in Physical Sciences) for the prestigious Future Science Prize (often referred to as 'Nobel Prize of the East')!
FEB Congrats to Yaxuan Zhao for winning the prestigious UT Outstanding Graduate Research Fellowship!
JAN Texas Engineer Magazine 2025-2026 highlights our research group's recent awards/honors as Top Highly Cited Researchers in the world for Dr. Yu and National Collegiate Inventors Competition Graduate Winners for Weixin and Yaxuan!
JAN Our research on "gradient hydrogel interlayer for stable aqueous batteries" was highlighted by TMI News!