Author: Yingjie Zhang

Our lab received a three-year $425,000 grant from AFOSR on ionic liquids and electrocatalysis! Thank the U.S. Air Force for the support!

Illinois MatSE news:

https://matse.illinois.edu/news/fueling-the-future-zhang-challenges-climate-change-with-air-force-grant

Our lab won the 2021 Beckman Young Investigator Award! Thank the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for the support!

Award announcement at the Beckman Foundation:

https://www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/beckman-foundation-announces-2021-beckman-young-investigator-awardees/

Summary of our proposed research:

https://www.beckman-foundation.org/people/yingjie-zhang/

News by the Grainger College of Engineering and the MatSE Department:

https://matse.illinois.edu/news/38444

News at the Materials Research Lab:

https://mrl.illinois.edu/news/zhang-beckman-young-investigator-award

Our paper on Bi2Te3-based electrochemical sensors is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Here is the featured news from the MatSE department.

Our work on atomic-scale imaging of solvation layers is published in ACS Nano! Here is the featured news from the MatSE department.

Kaustubh was awarded the TechnipFMC Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. Congratulations to Kaustubh, and thank TechnipFMC for the recognition and support! Here is the MatSE news.

Our group has received the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award. Thank ACS for the support! Here is the MatSE news on the award. We are also recruiting a student/postdoc in the area of in-situ imaging of liquid-solid interfaces. If interested, please send your CV and research interest to Prof. Zhang.

Our paper on magnetotransport in graphene strain superlattices is published in Applied Physics Letters:

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5125462

Our paper on nanomechanical mapping of wrinkled graphene is published at ACS Applied Nano Materials:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.9b01232

Our paper on imaging the molecular charge memory effects is published at ACS Applied Nano Materials:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.9b01182

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