2016-2020

2020

– Bin is selected as the 2020 runner-up and honorable mention of the ECS San Francisco Section Daniel Cubicciotti Student Award. Congratulations! December 14, 2020

– Bin receives the Gold Award of the MRS Graduate Student Awards for the 2020 MRS Fall Meeting. Congratulations! December 1, 2020

– Tianyi’s paper “Periodic Porous 3D Electrodes Mitigate Gas Bubble Traffic during Alkaline Water Electrolysis at High Current Densities” is featured as a back cover of Advanced Energy Materials. Nov. 2020

– Yat is one of the Highly Cited Researchers for 2020 (Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics). Congratulations!

– Bin was selected as one of the MRS Graduate Student Award finalists. Congratulations!! October 19, 2020

– Kristina and Adam join our lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome! October 2020

– Dun passed the Ph.D. candidacy exam. Congratulations! September 16, 2020

– Frances joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome! August 13, 2020

– Bin passed his oral defense. Congratulations Dr. Yao! August 12, 2020

– Nathan receives the MACES fellowship to do summer research with NASA scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Congratulations!

– Dana is one of twenty graduates profiled in Tuesday Newsday – UC Santa Cruz to showcase the breadth, tenacity, caliber, and diversity of the Class of 2020! June 9, 2020.

– Mingpeng receives the John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry. Congratulations! May 24, 2020

– Both Tianyi and Bin receive the Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Self-financed Overseas Students. Congratulations!! May 2020

– Dana receives the Doug Drexel Chemistry scholarship. Congratulations! 2020

– Bin’s paper Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials for Photo‐Electrochemical Water Splitting published in Small, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers! April 30, 2020

– Bin won third place in the student poster session at the NCCAVS conference. Congratulations! Feb 20, 2020

– Nathan Delaney joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome! Feb 2020

2019

– Dr. Dewei Rao from Jiangsu University (China) joins our lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome!! December 14, 2019

– Bin’s MRS talk was highlighted! Congratulations! December 3, 2019

– Yat is one of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019 (Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics). Congratulations!

– Megan was selected as a Graduate Research Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Congratulations! November 1, 2019

– Tianyi transformed from “graduate student” to “postdoc” in the lab. Congratulations! October 1, 2019

– Shanwen passed the PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations! September 17, 2019

– Tianyi passed his oral defense. Congratulations Dr. Kou! August 15, 2019

– Megan passed the PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations! July 26, 2019

– Mingpeng passed the PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations! July 1, 2019

– Bin’s article, Paper-Based Electrodes for Flexible Energy Storage Devices, published in Advanced Science, is one of the journal’s top-downloaded recent papers! June 6, 2019

– Bin received the “Elmer A Fridley Scholarship in the Physical Science”. Congratulations! May 15, 2019

– Bin received the “Chemistry Department Distinguished Research Fellowship” in recognizing his research accomplishments. Congratulations! May 6, 2019.

– Tianyi and Shanwen’s paper “Ni Foam Supported Fe-doped β-Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets Shows Ultralow Overpotential for Oxygen Evolution Reaction” published in ACS Energy Letters is one of the most read articles in Feb 2019. Congratulations!

– Bin’s paper “Paper-Based Electrodes for Flexible Energy Storage Devices” published in Advanced Science is among the journal’s top-cited papers published between January 2017 and December 2018. Congratulations! Feb. 25, 2019.

– Bin won the Best Poster award at the Northern California AVS student poster session. Congratulations! Feb. 21, 2019.

– Bin’s paper “Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials for Photo‐Electrochemical Water Splitting”  (DOI: 10.1002/smll.201803746) is ranked top 10 of the most accessed paper of Small in Jan. 2019. Congratulations! Feb. 5, 2019

— Bin’s work on Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials for Photo‐Electrochemical Water Splitting is featured as a cover paper in Small. Congratulations! Jan. 4, 2019

2018

– Tianyi presented a contributed talk “Defect Enriched Fe Incorporated β-Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets with Both High Total Electrode and Intrinsic Activity for Oxygen Evolution Reaction” in MRS Fall meeting. Nov. 27, 2018

– Yat is selected as a 2018 Highly Cited Researcher (in Physics) by Clarivate Analytics. Congratulations! Nov. 27, 2018

– Daniel passed the Ph.D. candidacy exam. Congratulations!  Nov. 7, 2018

– Bin’s work on 3D printed graphene aerogel/manganese oxide electrodes for supercapacitors (published in Joule, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.09.020) has been highlighted by UCSC News and EventsScienceDailyEurekAlert!Tech Xplore, Inside Science NewsScienmag3D Printing Media NetworkR&D MagazineSanta Cruz Tech BeatI-Connect007SpacedailyScience and Technology Research NewsTimes of News, Lithium NewsLiving TV Global, WorldProNews,  KnowridgeGraphene-Info, LongroomOne News PageTuniseSoir News3DPRINT.comPowerPulseIEEE Spectrum, etc. Congratulations! October. 23, 2018.

– Bin’s article Paper-Based Electrodes for Flexible Energy Storage Devices, published in Advanced Science, was one of the journal’s top 20 most downloaded recent papers in the 12-months post online publication! Congratulations! October 18, 2018

– Tianyi received the Best Poster Award in the annual departmental conference! Congratulations!  September 21, 2018

– Thanh and Gerardo each present a poster at UCSC undergraduate symposium. Good job! August 17, 2018

– Dun Lin (new graduate student) and Junzhe Kang (visiting undergraduate student) join our lab. Welcome!! August 16, 2018

– Gerardo gives a nice presentation in ACCESS symposium. August 9, 2018

– Gerardo Delgado and Thanh Huynh join our group as a summer intern. Welcome! July 5, 2018

– A warm welcome to all the high school summer students! June 10, 2018

– Congratulations to Yat on his promotion to Full Professor! June 7, 2018

– Yat is selected as the recipient of the 2018 CAPA (Chinese-American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professors Association) Distinguished Faculty Award. Congratulations! April 12, 2018

– Martina presented a poster, Yat presented an invited talk at MRS Spring meeting at Pheonix. April 3, 2018

– Tianyu received the Special Excellence Award from Consul General Luo Linquan in a ceremony held by Chinese Consulate General in SF. Big Congratulations! April 1, 2018

– Bin is selected as a recipient of John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry. Congratulations! Mar. 2, 2018

– Undergraduate researchers Martina and Andrea win the FIRST PLACE in the NCCAVS 7th Annual Student Poster Session in San Jose, CA. Congratulations! Feb. 22, 2018

– Bin’s paper “Paper-based Electrodes for Flexible Energy Storage Devices”  (DOI: 10.1002/advs.201700107) is ranked top 10 of the most accessed paper of Adv. Sci. in 2017. Congratulations! Feb. 20, 2018

– Tianyu received the prestigious “Chinese Outstanding Self-Financed Students Award  (国家优秀自费留学生奖学金, 特别优秀奖)” from China Scholarship Council. Big Congratulations!!! Jan. 23, 2018 

– The US patent entitled “SELF-BIASED AND SUSTAINABLE ELECTROHYDROGENESIS DEVICE” is granted (USPTO patent number 9825321). Congratulations! Jan. 10, 2018  Tuesday News

2017

— Yu’s work on three-dimensional carbon architectures for electrochemical capacitors is featured as a front cover in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Congratulations! Dec. 13th, 2017

— Bin wins the first place in MACES 2017 GRADSLAM. Congratulations! Dec. 6th, 2017

— Yat is selected as a 2017 Highly Cited Researcher (in Physics) by Clarivate Analytics (Previously Thomson Reuters). Congratulations! Nov. 15th, 2017

— Yat joins the editorial board of journal 《中国科学:化学》 / Science China Chemistry. Congratulations! Nov. 1st, 2017

— Cheng Cheng joins our lab as a visiting graduate student. Welcome! Oct. 10th, 2017

— Shanwen Wang joins our lab as a graduate student. Welcome! Sept. 25th, 2017

— Tianyu joins Prof. Guoliang (Greg) Liu’s group at Virginia Tech. as postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations!! September 20, 2017

— Prof. Wei Xu joins our lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome! Sept. 13th, 2017.

— Yu’s work on ”Ostwald Ripening Improves Rate Capability of High Mass Loading Manganese Oxide for Supercapacitors” (ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2, 1752-1759) is ranked in Top 20 most downloaded papers in ACS Energy Lett. in August, 2017. Congratulations! Sept. 5th, 2017

— Lei Zhang joins our lab as a visiting graduate student. Welcome! Sept. 2th, 2017

— Jing and Bin’s baby girl was born on Aug 28, 2017!!! Congratulations to the NEW PARENTS!

— Mingpeng Chen joins our lab as a graduate student. Welcome! Aug. 23th, 2017

— Bin’s work on ”Paper-Based Electrodes for Flexible Energy Storage Devices” (Adv. Sci. 2017, 4, 1700107) is ranked No.1 in the most accessed paper in Advanced Science in July, 2017. Congratulations! Aug. 16th, 2017

— Bin passes the oral exam and advances to a Ph.D. candidate. Congratulations! Aug. 8th, 2017

— Yu’s work on ”Ostwald Ripening Improves Rate Capability of High Mass Loading Manganese Oxide for Supercapacitors” (ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2, 1752-1759) is ranked in Top 20 most downloaded papers in ACS Energy Lett. in July, 2017. Congratulations! Aug. 3rd, 2017

– Elizabeth Chen joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome! Jul. 27th, 2017.

— Bin’s work on paper-based electrodes for flexible energy storage devices is featured as a cover paper in Adv. Sci. Congratulations! Jul. 18th, 2017

— Bin’s paper “Paper-Based Electrodes for Flexible Energy Storage Devices” (Adv. Sci. DOI:10.1002/advs.201700107) is highlighted by Wiley Materials Views ChinaSOHU and CaiLiaoNiu. Jun. 27th, 2017

— Tianyu is awarded 2017 ECS Cubicciotti Award (http://www.electrochem.org/san-francisco-student-award). Congratulations! Jun. 22th, 2017 (ECS blog report)

— Malika Gellman, Supriya Lall, Shangfeihong Cao and Samira Sriram join our lab as high school student interns for the 2017 Science Internship Program. Welcome! June 12th, 2017

— Undergraduate researcher Martina is awarded Undergraduate Research Award by the Hierarchical Research Systems Foundation. Congratulations! Jun. 6th, 2017

– Tianyu passes his dissertation defense. Congratulations Dr. Liu! May 30th, 2017

— Yu’s work on “Amorphous Mixed-valence Vanadium Oxide/Exfoliated Carbon Cloth Structure Shows a Record High Cycling Stability” (SmallDOI: 10.1002/smll.201700067) is highlighted by X-MOL. May. 28th, 2017

— Tianyu’s proposed and edited focus issue of Journal of Materials Research, “Porous Carbon and Carbonaceous Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage” is calling for papers! The editorial team welcomes your submissions! May 24th, 2017.

–Tianyu is selected as a web writer for Chemical ScienceChemical Society Reviews, and Chemical Communications. Congratulations! May 18th, 2017.

— Undergraduate researcher Andrea receives The Northern California Chapter of the American Vacuum Society (NCCAVS) Scholarship. Big Congratulations! May 11th, 2017.

— Swetha and Tianyu’s poster on 3D printing of activated carbon presented in the Spring 2017 MRS meeting is chosen as a best poster nominee. Apr. 20th, 2017

— Feng and Tianyu’s work on multiscale porous carbon supercapacitor electrodes (Nano Lett., DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00533) has been highlighted by Design for Science. Apr. 17th, 2017

— Tianyu is invited to serve as a blogger of the official MRS Meeting Scene website for the Spring 2017 MRS meeting held in Phoenix, AZ. Mar. 31st, 2017

–Xiaoli Fan joined our lab as a visiting graduate student. Welcome! Mar. 28th, 2017.

–Yu’s work on “Amorphous Mixed-valence Vanadium Oxide/Exfoliated Carbon Cloth Structure Shows a Record High Cycling Stability” (SmallDOI: 10.1002/smll.201700067) is highlighted by Wiley MaterialsViews China. Mar. 27th, 2017

— Tianyu is selected to participate in the MRS Science Writing workshop held in the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting. The workshop recruited 12 participants only all over the world. Congrats! Mar. 22nd, 2017

— Tianyu’s artwork “Succulent Flowers” has been chosen as one of the final entrants for the “Science as Art” competition of the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting. Congrats! Mar. 20th, 2017

–Yu’s work on ”Amorphous Mixed-valence Vanadium Oxide/Exfoliated Carbon Cloth Structure Shows a Record High Cycling Stability” (SmallDOI: 10.1002/smll.201700067) is ranked in Top 10 most accessed papers in Small in February, 2017, according to a report in Wiley MaterialsViews China. Mar. 5th, 2017

– Congratulate Bin on passing the second year seminar! Mar. 1st, 2017

– Tianyu is invited to serve as a writer and editor for Cai Liao Niu, a public scientific media dedicated to rapid communication of cutting-edge and ground-breaking material research papers to Chinese material scientists. Feb. 18th, 2017

– Tianyu’s proposed focus issue “Porous Carbon and Carbonaceous Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage” has been accepted by the editorial office of Journal of Materials Research, a Materials Research Society-affiliated peer-review journal. Congrats! Jan. 23rd, 2017.

– Prof. Changjin Tang joins our lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome! Jan. 17th, 2017.

– Martina Morelli joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome! Jan. 13th, 2017.

– Zihang Huang joins our lab as a visiting graduate student. Welcome! Jan. 9th, 2017

– Yi’s work on acid-treated hematite photoanodes for photo-electrochemical water oxidation (DOI:10.1002/ange.201510869) is highlighted by SPIE Newsroom. Congrats! Jan. 4th, 2017

2016

– Tianyu won the Graduate Student Silver Award awarded by the Material Research Society in the 2016 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibition. Congratulations! Nov. 30th, 2016

– Tianyu and Yat organized a group of UCSC students performed demonstrations on chemiluminescence and bioluminescence for the 2016 GLOW festival at the MAH museum, Santa Cruz, CA. Oct. 22nd, 2016

– Huarong Peng joins the lab as a visiting graduate student. Welcome! Oct. 13th, 2016

– Tianyu Liu is selected as a finalist for the 2016 Fall MRS Graduate Student Award. Congrats! Oct. 12th, 2016

– Tianyu’s application for the Lemelson-MIT Student Award is advanced to stage #2 – Category Application. Congrats! Oct. 1st, 2016

– Irwin Chen and John Pinto join our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome! Sept. 21st, 2016

– Wang Xiao joins the lab as a graduate student conducting indepedent research in our lab. Welcome! Sept. 21st, 2016

– Tianyu is selected as a recipient of the Tony Fink Memorial Student Award in Materials Chemistry. Congrats! Sept. 13th, 2016

– Bin’s poster wins the “Best Poster” prize in the annual Chemistry and Biochemistry department retreat. Congrats! Sept. 13th, 2016

– Yang and Tianyu’s work on microfluidic microbial fuel cells is featured on the back cover of J. Mater. Chem. A. Congrats! Sept 1st, 2016

– Yi receives an offer from the Applied Materials, Inc. Big Congratulations! Sept, 2016

– Tianyi Kou passes the oral exam. Congratulations! Aug. 8th, 2016

– Prescott Railey joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome! July 5th, 2016.

– Tianyu is awarded the 2015-2016 Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Congrats! June 28th, 2016

– Tianyu’s work on ion-intercalation (DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201600107) is highlighted by Lawrence Livermore National Lab Newsline and Wiley MaterialsViews. Congrats! June 22nd, 2016

– Yi passes her dissertation defense. Congratulations Dr. Yang! June 8th, 2016

– Kathleen Cui, Siddhartha Krishnan, Daisy Kamp, Jennifer John, Erica Chan and Erica Chiu join our lab as high school student interns for the 2016 Science Internship Program. Welcome! June 6th, 2016

— Yat joins the editorial board of the journal Nano-Micro Letters. Congratulations!! June 1st, 2016

– Tianyu’s work on ion-intercalation (DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201600107) is featured on the back cover of ChemNanoMat. Congrats! May 23rd, 2016.

– Tianyu receives the 2016-2017 Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship. Big Congratulations!!! May 18th, 2016

– High school summer intern Anchit Narain is awarded third place at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Congrats! May 13th, 2016.

– Hanyu Wang received a postdoc offer from the Oaks Ridge National Laboratory. Congrats! Apr. 29th, 2016

– Bin Yao’s poster is awarded the Dean’s Award in Division of Physical and Biological Sciences in 12th annual Graduate Research Symposium. Congrats! Apr. 29th, 2016

– Yang and Tianyu’s work on nitrogen-doped graphene aerogel microbial fuel cell anode (DOI: 10.1002/advs.201600097) has been highlighted by Wiley MaterialsViewsChina. Congrats!  Apr.25th, 2016

– Tianyu is selected as a finalist representing UCSC to participate in the UC Carbon Slam competition held at Xerox PARC, San Jose, CA. Congrats!   Apr. 24th, 2016

– Yi receives an internship offer from Philips Lumileds Lighting Company in San Jose, CA. Congrats!!   Apr. 2016

– Tianyu’s poster is awarded the “Best Poster” in 2016 Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Open House, UCSC. Congrats! Mar. 4th, 2016

– Tianyi Kou passes the second year seminar. Congrats! March. 2016

– Tianyu’s work on 3D-printed graphene aerogel electrodes for supercapacitors is featured as a cover paper in Nano Lett. Congrats! Feb. 18th, 2016

– Andrea Cruz joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

– Tianyu’s work (collaborated with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab) on 3D-printed graphene aerogel electrodes for supercapacitors (published in Nano Lett.http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04965) has been highlighted by Lawrence Livermore National Lab NewslineUCSC News and EventsMaterials Research SocietySIGNAL magazine, ScienceBlog3Printr.com3DPrint.com3der.orgDSIACGreen Car CongressIoknot Stonker3DCARIB.comNanoWerkBefore It’s NewsWearable Technology Insights etc.. Congrats! Feb. 15th, 2016

– Tianyu gave a presentation about his research to UC Santa Cruz STEM students and Santa Cruz community members in the Tea Talk program hosted by UC Santa Cruz. Feb. 4th, 2016

– Kristine Zhang (a former SIP intern in our lab) was selected as one of the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search Semi-finalists. Big Congratulations!!!  Jan. 2016