June 27, 2024
Jay Dua to Attend the 12th Bio-SPM Summer School at Kanazawa University
Jay Dua, a graduate student in the De Yoreo Group, has been accepted to participate in the 12th Bio-SPM Summer School organized by the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University. The Bio-SPM summer school provides young researchers and students with an opportunity to use state-of-the-art Bio-SPM systems to image their samples and realize their…
Jay Dua and Xinqi Li Receive CEI Graduate Fellowship
Congratulations to Jay Dua and Xinqi Li, graduate students in the De Yoreo Group, for receiving the CEI Graduate Fellowship from the Clean Energy Institute at the University of Washington! The CEI Graduate Fellowship Program funds exceptional researchers studying energy across various fields at the University of Washington to apply their talents to clean energy…
Best Paper Award from International Association for Dental Research Group
A research paper from a collaborative team including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers received a best scientific paper award from the Mineralized Tissue Group (MTG) of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). The award was presented at the 2024 IADR meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana to the study lead, Susrut Akkineni, a former graduate student in the De…
June 6, 2024
Ying Xia Receives Inaugural Carl Imhoff Scholarship from the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation
Congratulations to Ying for being awarded the first-ever Carl Imhoff Scholarship by the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation (RESF)! Ying was honored at RESF’s annual reception in Portland on May 23, 2024, where RESF President David Reingold and Bryce Yonker, Executive Director and CEO of Grid Forward, presented the award. Carl Imhoff spearheaded the grid modernization…
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…
February 6, 2024
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.
December 1, 2023
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 presented in the Wednesday poster…
November 18, 2023
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 2016, is an early career…
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.
September 9, 2023
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 join the École Polytechnique Fédérale…