Category: News

One of our undergraduate intern, Christopher’s work on measuring mechanical properties of PDMS using home-made LEGO platform was introduced in MechSE news!

Here’s the link:

https://mechse.illinois.edu/news/40333

van der Huang group spring picnic at Japan house 4/9/21

Good to see you all!

Professor van der Zande was one of this year’s recipients of The Grainger College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research! As an assistant professor, he was honored for his research accomplishments and published work within the past year.

Congratulations Arend!

Article link: https://mechse.illinois.edu/news/32884

Our group’s recent review paper on mechanically sensing and tailoring electronic properties in two-dimensional atomic membranes was published in Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science. Congratulations team!

Our group’s recent paper about designing the bending stiffness of 2D materials are highlighted in MRL news!

Sihan’s new paper on Atomic force microscopy (AFM) tip-based cleaning improves the performance in Monolayer MoS2 devices was published in ACS Omega. Congratulations Sihan and team!

Jaehyung Yu’s new paper on designing the flexibility of 2D materials was published in Advanced Materials! Congratulations Jaehyung and team!

Jangyup’s new paper on chemical functionalization of bilayer graphene has been published in Nano Letters. Congratulations Jangyup and team!

Abir’s recently published paper “Realizing Optoelectronic Devices from Crumpled Two-Dimensional Material Heterostructures” was selected to be the ACS Editors Choice. An honor given to highlight the top one paper across the entire family of ACS journals per day.

Congratulations Abir!

 

Jaehyung Yu just defended, and is leaving us to start his postdoc with Jiwoong Park’s lab at UChicago. Congratulations Jae, we will miss you!