SHU YANG GROUP :: News & Events

NEWS & EVENTS

2009

8/2009, Ying and Jason's work on Au nanostructures fabricated by pattern transformation and pattern transfer has been selected to the cover of August issue of ACS Nano. Congrats!

8/4/2009, Dinesh defended this thesis very smoothly, with confidence and good stories to tell. (Congrats, Dr. Chandra!)

7/21/2009, Jun Hyuk and Jin Seok's paper on 3D POSS has been selected to the cover of the July issue of J. Mater. Chem. Congrats!

3/31/20009, Prof. Yang was announced the promotion to the tenured Associate Professor during a surprise visit of Dean Glandt (Cheers!)

3/31/2009, Jamie will soon start a new postdoc position at NIST.

2/2009, Jamie's work on synthesis of nanofruit textures on photopatterned surface (Chem. Mater., 2009, 21(3), 476-483. DOI) was highlighted in Lab on a Chip, 2009, 9 (5), 642 - 643, as an article of particular significance/value to miniaturization research.

2008

11/24/2008, Ying starts his new life at Corning (Congrats!)

11/11/2008, new group web page is launched. (Many thanks to our webmaster, Felice!)

10/31/2008, Yue left for Princeton for a new exciting research in biosensing.

10/9/2008, Dr. Guan-quan Liang arrived. He finished Ph.D. in Optics at Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, CHINA.

8/6/2008, "Crytal clue in army injury". New Scientist and BBC News have reported our latest findings using 3D photonic crystals as blast injury dosimeter, which was presented by Dr. Kacy Cullen at the National Neurotrauma Conference. This work is a collaboration between Yongan Xu in Yang's group and Dr. Kacy Cullen in Dr. Douglas Smith's group at Center for Brian Injury and Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine at Penn. (Nice work, Yongan and Kacy!)

7/2008, "University of Pennsylvania Researchers Demonstrate a Flexible, One-Step Assembly of Nanoscale Structures" (pdf). Our recent work published on Nano Letter, "One-step nanoscale assembly of complex structures via harnessing of an elastic instability”, Nano Lett . 2008 , 8 (4), 1192-1196 (pdf), was featured by several nanotech and semiconductor news outlets, including ScienceDaily.com, Semiconductor International, R&D Magazine, Nanotechwire.com, Chemie.de, Alibaba, DailyTech, analytica-world.com, nanovip.com, nanowrek.com, physorg.com, bio-medicine.org, Nanotechbuzz.com, to name a few. This work was carried out by Ying Zhang, Anna Peter (ETH exchange student), Dr. Pei-Chun Lin in collaboration with Sabetta Matsumoto and Prof. Randall Kamien in Physics Department.

6/2008, we have three excellent undergraduate students joined our group through LRSM/REU program. Jason Reed (Sophomore, Cornell), Tammer Ghaly (Junior, John's Hopkins Univ.), and Junhao Zhou (Junior, Bard College), working on nanofabrication via harnessing elastic instability in PDMS memebranes and tunable wetting using wrinkled surfaces, respectively. (Welcome back, Jason!)

7/2008, Murat decided to leave us and join Dr. Jason Burdick's group in Bioengineering to pursue his interest in biopolymers.

5/2008, Dr. Krishnacharya Khare from Max Planck Institute for Dynamics & Self-Organization jointed us. (Welcome abord!)

1/2008-3/2008, Sofia Quinodoz (senior, Mount St. Joseph's Academy) worked with graduate student, Jamie Ford, on synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles from polyamines. She was placed first in the chemistry category at the Montgomery County Science fair and received an honorable mention at Delaware Valley Science Fair. (congratulations !)

1/2008, Dr. Jun Hyuk Moon joined the faculty of Chemical Engineering at Sogang University, Korea. (congratulations!)

2007

12/2007, Dr. Yue Cui from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology joined our group. (Welcome!)

7/2007, Pei-Chun returned to Taiwan and become an assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. (congratulations !)

6/2007, REU student, Jason Reed (Freshman, Cornell/MSE) joined Yang's group on nanopatterning various nanoparticles on PDMS membranes. Jason won the E.W. Plummer award for best paper in Physics. (Congratulations!)

5/31/2007, Yu-Tun Shen and Jin Seok Seo graduated with a MS degree from Penn/MSE (congratulations!)

2006

7/10/2006, RET teacher, Sunila Gorde (Germantown HS) joined Yang's group on crystallization on self-assembled monolayers.

6/19/2006, RET teacher, Medha Malgaonkar (West Philadelphia HS) joined Yang's group on self-assembly of colloidal particles.

6/19/2006, REU student, Billy Yau (Junior, Cornell/MSE) joined Yang's group on crystallization on self-assembled monolayers in the presence of polymer additives

5/31/2006, Chi-Wei Lo graduated with a MS degree from Penn/MSE (congratulations!)

4/2006, Dr. Shuhui Qin joined Henkel Inc. (congratulations!)

2005

6/20/2005, RET teacher, Patricia Flick (Mount St. Joseph's Academy) joined Yang's group on biomimetic silica synthesis.

6/13/2005, REU student, Joshua S. Moskowitz (Junior, Cornell/MSE) joined Yang's group on fabrication of nanoposts with magnetic particles. Josh won the E.W. Plummer award for the best paper in Engineering. (congratulations!)

5/31/2005, Kuang-Sheng Hong graduated with a MS degree from Penn/MSE (congratulations!)

2004

11/2004, REU student, Zachary Samuels (Senior, Cornell/MSE), won the LRSM "Best Student Research Award" on fabrication of microfluidic channels in Yang's group. (congratulations!)

9/2004: Shu Yang Named a “Top Young Innovator” as TR100," chosen by the editors of Technology Review (pdf) (TR35 pdf)

6/3/2004: Jamie, Ying, Kuang and Prof. Yang did a live TV show on "Swellable, Gelable Polymers" for “ The Science of Philadelphia ”, a TV program for K-8. (wait to see the video clips)

2/17: Site launch.