Media Highlights
April 15, 2024
Article Featured on Front Cover: Nature Reviews Materials
The review article “Non-classical crystallization in soft and organic materials” has been featured on the Front Cover of Nature Reviews Materials in its April issue. The image illustrates crystallization via a dense liquid precursor as the free energy of the system decreases, as well as the in-situ observation of this process. Artwork by Cortland Johnson…
October 20, 2023
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 freely available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41443-y.
May 20, 2022
DOE Highlight: Protein Dynamics on Mineral Surfaces
The recent PNAS paper by Dr. Shuai Zhang and colleagues on the rotational dynamics of proteins on mineral surfaces was featured in the CommUnique bulletin from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. This work was partly funded by the Office’s Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales (CSSAS), an Energy Frontier Research…