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!
Jaehyung’s recent paper, “Ultrasoft slip-mediated bending in few-layer graphene“, was highlighted in a perspective article by Rui Huang in Nature Materials.
Sunphil successfully defended his PhD thesis (02/13/2020).
Congratulations Dr. Kim! He will be leaving to start his postdoc at the Molecular Foundry with Dr. Archana Raja at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. We will miss you!
Sunphil’s new paper about the impact of soliton on mechanics of 2D van der waals interfaces was published in Nano letters!
Congratulations Sunphil!
The article is available here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04619
Jangyup’s going away banquet at Golden Harbor (12/12/2019)
Jangyup is leaving to start his own lab as a Senior Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Thank you for all your effort!
We miss you Jangyup!
The news article highlight our work on bending few-layer graphene has been published in U of I news!
The news is available here : Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets
The original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-019-0529-7
Our PI, professor Arend M. van der Zande, has been named to 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, a global listing of scientists who produced the past decade’s most influential papers, compiled by the Web of Science group, a Clarivate Analytics company.
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/804690
Since the spring semester was over, van der Zande group got the group party with escape room. Although most of the members had not experienced the escape room, we successfully solve the problems to save the world!
We taught the mechanical design class this semester, ME370. We created a new class project where students have to build walking robots. At the end of the semester, they had to have a race out on Bardeen quad. Check out the results!