Author: Yingjie Zhang

Our lab has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award! The project, titled “CAREER: Elucidating the Correlative Interfacial Solvation, Nucleation, and Growth Processes in Battery Electrolytes“, will receive $661,936 funding from NSF in the coming five years. Thank NSF for the support!

We have combined machine learning with atomic force microscopy to perform precise nano-profilometry. The paper has been published in Nano Letters and selected as a journal cover! Also check out the news release in the MatSE department and the MRL.

Our group is part of the new NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology! Thank NSF for the support, and we look forward to working with colleagues in this uncharted territory!

Award abstract:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243257&HistoricalAwards=false

NSF news:

https://new.nsf.gov/news/120-million-funding-create-4-new-science-tech-centers

Beckman Institute news release:

https://beckman.illinois.edu/about/news/article/2023/09/07/bringing-cells-to-life-and-to-minecraft-30-million-nsf-grant-to-support-whole-cell-modeling-at-the-beckman-institute

Qian received the Racheff Teaching Fellowship for Fall 2023!

Yingjie received a travel grant from the Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division of The Electrochemical Society to attend the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden. Thank ECS for the support!

Lalith received the TechnipFMC Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year! Congratulations to Lalith and thank TechnipFMC for the support!

Our work on sub-nanometer scale charge density profiling of electrode–electrolyte interfaces has been published at ACS Nano! Also check out the news coverage in the MatSE department and MRL, and EurekAlert.

Our work on deciphering the structural descriptor of interfacial ionic liquids has been published at The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! Also check out the news release at the MatSE department and EurekAlert.

Jae received PPG-MRL Graduate Fellowship Award for 2022-2023! Congratulations to Jae and thank PPG for the support!

Kaustubh has been selected as one of the Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3) for the 2022-2023 academic year, and will embark on the journey of training for next-generation professors!