News and Events
News and Events
News and Events
Congratulations to Andrei D. Dolocan and Ioana R. Gearba-Dolocan on receiving the 2025 Staff Service Awards in recognition of their remarkable 15 years of dedicated service at the Texas Materials Institute!
Professor Arumugam Manthiram received the Faraday Medal Award from the Society for Advancement of Electrochemical Science and Technology (SAEST), India.
Three graduate students from the Koo Research Group presented five papers at the AIAA SciTech Conference in Orlando, Florida. Topics included advanced aerospace materials like carbon/UHTR and quartz/UHTR ablatives, microstructural analysis, and photogrammetry methods. The students, along with their advisor Dr. Joseph H. Koo, showcased their research to over 6,000 attendees.
A recent study by Dr. Yuanyue Liu and his team, published in The American Chemical Society (ACS), has revealed a previously overlooked catalytic site in M–N–C materials, which are vital for energy conversion reactions like the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Traditionally, M–N–C catalysts feature pyridinic sites as the primary active sites.
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is proud to announce that Dr. Yuebing Zheng has been elected to the prestigious grade of Fellow of SPIE, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of optics and photonics.
Dr. David Mitlin and Dr. Donald Siegel, along with their colleagues in the Department of Energy’s MUSIC Energy Frontier Research Center, recently published a perspective article in Nature Materials on "Electro-Chemo-Mechanics of Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries."
In a recent groundbreaking study, Dr. Yurim Jeon, a postdoctoral researcher, and Dr. Deji Akinwande, a distinguished professor, have uncovered In2Se3’s potential to significantly advance artificial intelligence (AI).
Dr. Deji Akinwande delivered the Kavli Plenary Lecture at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall 2024 Meeting, highlighting the potential of 2D nanomaterials for both scientific research and practical engineering applications."
Kent Zheng, assistant professor, has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science. He joined the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in January of 2024 having completed postdoctoral research with Prof. Joe Checkelsky at MIT Physics Department.
A pioneering article on the future of bioelectronics has been published in Nature Reviews Materials, shedding light on the transformative potential of two-dimensional (2D) materials for creating ultra-thin, functional interfaces between electronic devices and the human body.
