De Yoreo Research Group

Group News

  • Deciphering How Crystals Form in Non-Classical Ways

    A new article published in Nature Review Materials provided a high-level review of the non-classical crystallization pathways of soft and organic materials. Du, J.S., Bae, Y. & De Yoreo, J.J. Non-classical crystallization in soft and organic materials. Nat Rev Mater (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-023-00637-y Free full-text access is available via https://rdcu.be/dxXOs.
  • Chenyang Shi Receives MRS Best Poster Award

    Dr. Chenyang Shi, a Post Doctorate Research Associate at PNNL working with Jim, has recently received a conference-wide Best Poster Award from the 2023 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. His poster titled, “Multiphase Silk Assembly for Two-Dimensional Composites,” was chosen as one of the six winners from over 400 posters…
  • Jingshan Du Joins Community Board of Nanoscale Horizons

    Dr. Jingshan Du, a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the De Yoreo Group, has been selected as a new Community Board Member for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Nanoscale Horizons. Nanoscale Horizons is a leading journal publishing exceptionally high-quality, innovative nanoscience and nanotechnology. Its Community Board, established in…
  • Research Elucidating New Materials Dissolution Pathways Highlighted by Nature Communications

    A new publication from the group led by former graduate student Guomin Zhu has been highlighted by Nature Communications in its Inorganic and Physical Chemistry focus section. This work revealed that mesocrystals may dissolve through particle detachment, an inverse process of crystallization by particle attachment (CPA). The original paper is…
  • Sakshi Yadav Schmid Awarded Fellowship from the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research

    Congratulations to Dr. Sakshi Yadav Schmid, a postdoctoral research associate in the group, who has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women in Science from the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Bio-Inspired Materials in Switzerland, a national research center funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Sakshi will…