May 20, 2022
Ying Xia Receives Two Clean Energy Institute Student Travel Grants
Graduate student Ying Xia in the De Yoreo Group (joint advisory with Professor Jun Liu) recently received two Student Travel Grants from the Clean Energy Institute at UW. This recognition supported her travel to the 2022 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Hawaii, in which she discussed how engineered proteins assemble on mineral surfaces and…
May 17, 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Susrut Akkineni!
Susrut Akkineni, a graduate student in the De Yoreo Group, has successfully defended his thesis titled “Biological and Biomimetic Mineralization via Protein Nanoribbons.” In the past few years, Dr. Akkineni marshaled an array of in situ and high-resolution microscopy methods to develop a quantitative understanding of how self-assembled amelogenin nanoribbons template hydroxyapatite nucleation, a process…
May 10, 2022
Group Members Featured in the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting
Several group members are representing the group at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting, which is held during May 8-13, 2022, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ying Xia, Susrut Akkineni, Dr. Sakshi Yadav, and Dr. Chenyang Shi will give presentations on various topics across protein assembly fundamentals and biomineralization. Check out the press release from PNNL to see…
May 6, 2022
Two Articles in PNAS Provide New Insights on Surface-Bound Protein Assembly and Templated Mineralization
Two independent reports led by Dr. Shuai Zhang and Susrut Akkineni were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. In the first study, high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) images of rod-like proteins were analyzed by machine learning and simulations to reveal the dynamics of their rotation on a mica…
April 29, 2022
Study Published in ACS Nano Created New Peptoid-Quantum Dot Hybrid Structures
In a new collaborative study, graduate student Madison Monahan, co-advised by Jim and Prof. Brandi Cossairt, reported the synthesis of new hybrid materials composed of peptoid-functionalized CdSe and CdS quantum dots. The particle arrangement and microstructure in these materials are directed by particle size and surface chemistry. The full article is available at https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c01203.
February 16, 2022
New Publication in Angewandte Chemie: Peptoid-directed Formation of Au Nanostars
Congratulations to Biao Jin and co-workers for the acceptance of a manuscript on peptoid-directed formation of Au nanostars in Angewandte Chemie. Full article available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202201980.
February 9, 2022
Jim De Yoreo Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the new cohort of elected members on February 9, 2022. Jim was elected “for advances in materials synthesis from nucleation to large-scale crystal growth.” The full announcement by the NAE is available at https://www.nae.edu/270224/National-Academy-of-Engineering-Elects-111-Members-and-22-International-Members Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to…
November 12, 2021
Jingshan Du Awarded Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Jingshan Du for being awarded a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Jingshan is the first PNNL scientist ever to receive this honor. He will use the award to develop new methods and instruments that enable the use of low-temperature (S)TEM to map the surface and interface structure of ice and ice-colloid boundaries…