Research Highlights

Thermal biomass upgrading: Synthesizing new multifunctional catalysts

Published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

A strategy that aims for rare metal-free catalysis and global resource-circulation

03/28/2022

Kagome metals: New evidence for a charge-density wave’s multi-orbital origins

Published in Physical Review X

Using carrier injection to manipulate an exotic quantum state

02/28/2022

Oxygen reduction reaction catalysts: Deciphering new catalyst-design principles

Published in ACS Applied Energy Materials

A step towards replacing platinum

01/31/2022

Liquid robotics: A continuous, autonomous, cargo-shuttling droplet

Published in Nature Chemistry

When insect locomotion crosses chemistry

12/27/2021

Mottronics: Isolation of a robust room-temperature two-dimensional Mott insulator

Published in Nature Communications

Using low dimensionality to enhance Mott-transition temperature

11/29/2021

Heterogeneous catalysis: Redirecting surface atom migration to the (100) facets of a ceria nanocatalyst

Published in Chemistry of Materials

A new dissolution/re-precipitation method for recycling facet-controlled nanocatalyst

10/25/2021

Bayesian statistics: Deconvolving the many-body problem with numbers

Published in Communications Physics

First-time demonstration of a Bayesian approach to surface spectroscopic data analysis