04/2023
Lalith received the TechnipFMC Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year! Congratulations to Lalith and thank TechnipFMC for the support!
11/2022
Our work on sub-nanometer scale charge density profiling of electrode–electrolyte interfaces has been published at ACS Nano!
10/2022
Our work on deciphering the structural descriptor of interfacial ionic liquids has been published at The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
07/2022
Jae received PPG-MRL Graduate Fellowship Award for 2022-2023! Congratulations to Jae and thank PPG for the support!
04/2022
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!
03/2022
Our lab received an NSF grant on integrated experiment-theory studies of carbon electrode-electrolyte interfaces! This is an international collaboration with Prof. Yingjie Zhang serving as the lead PI. Co-PIs include Profs. Narayana Aluru (UT Austin), Amir Farrokh Payam (Ulster University, Northern Ireland), and Niall English (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland). Thank NSF for supporting our work!
03/2022
Our work on spectroscopic investigation of the electric double layers of a pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquid is published in The Journal of Chemical Physics! It is also selected as the cover of the journal!
11/2021
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:
06/2021
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:
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
01/2021
Our paper on Bi2Te3-based electrochemical sensors is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Here is the featured news from the MatSE department.
11/2020
Our work on molecular imaging of electrochemical solid-liquid interfaces is published in ACS Nano! Here is the featured news from the MatSE department.
03/2020
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.
11/2019
Our group has received the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award. Thank ACS for the support! Here is the MatSE news on the award.
10/2019
Our paper on magnetotransport in graphene strain superlattices is published in Applied Physics Letters:
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5125462
09/2019
Our paper on nanomechanical mapping of wrinkled membranes is published at ACS Applied Nano Materials:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.9b01232
07/2019
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
01/2019
The Zhang lab started!
10/2018
Our work on two-dimensional superlattices is published in npj 2D Materials and Applications! Here is the featured news from the Illinois MRSEC.
06/2018
Our work on two-dimensional membrane deformation is published in Nano Letters! Here is the featured news from the Materials Research Laboratory at UIUC.