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Assistant Professor Chris Anderson is bringing his quantum expertise to a new collaboration with Taiwanese institutions, which will leverage their semiconductor manufacturing capabilities to develop revolutionary silicon carbide-based devices. matse.illinois.edu/news/74519

GRADUATE STUDENT APPRECIATION WEEK: Yu-Hsin Wang is a first-year M.S. 3+2 student from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. If she had to pick a few words to describe MatSE, she would choose "supportive, innovative and globally-oriented."

GRADUATE STUDENT APPRECIATION WEEK: As the Chair of Graduate Recruitment, a student position for MatSE Spring 2025 Prospective Ph.D. Visits, Adrian Birge is at the forefront of recruiting exceptional students into MatSE graduate programs.

Matthew Lancor's journey from engineering to entrepreneurship makes for a fascinating story. We sat down with him and explored how his Illinois materials science and engineering degree is impacting his rise in the beverage industry. bit.ly/3ElalDX

We are very appreciative of Professor Di Xiao, chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, for recently visiting our students and sharing expertise involving phase effects in 2D quantum materials. MORE: bit.ly/3RorpvL

Jiahui Li's metamaterials research put her in rare company when she brought home two prestigious awards from the same Materials Research Society event - a Graduate Student Gold Award and the Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award. Congratulations! matse.illinois.edu/news/74848

We proudly recognized the exceptional achievements of our community at the 2025 Department of Materials Science and Engineering Spring Awards Banquet. Congratulations to all award recipients! MORE: bit.ly/444tEMq

Using advanced electron microscopy, Associate Professor Pinshane Huang's team and collaborators found "perfect" 2D covalent organic frameworks actually contain significant nanoscale disorder, changing our view of how these layered materials stack. matse.illinois.edu/news/74777

Congratulations are due for Professor Paul Braun, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2025. He is one of two entrants from The Grainger College of Engineering. matse.illinois.edu/news/75006

Assistant Professor Hua Wang, in collaboration with the Cancer Center at Illinois (Cancer Center at Illinois), has developed one of the first extracellular vesicle (EV)-based hydrogels, which promises durable cancer responses. MORE: bit.ly/4iCrhnt

Join us for this semester's last session of Saturday Engineering for Everyone, where we explore the role of engineers in the development of the COVID-19 vaccines with Professor Cecilia Leal (Materials Science & Engineering at Illinois). 📅 May 3, 2025 | 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. 📍Room 1013, ECEB

From superb teaching success to impactful research, materials faculty and students were deserving of Dean's Awards recently announced by The Grainger College of Engineering . The full list can be found in the below link. matse.illinois.edu/news/75063

Spring is in bloom at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering! 😎🌞

Students on the path to a Ph.D. - are you interested in pursuing academic teaching or research as your profession? Apply to the Rising Stars workshop, coming Sept. 8-9 to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and hone important career skills. matse.illinois.edu/news/75430

Utilizing a breakthrough in platelet engineering, Assistant Professor Hua Wang's team has opened new pathways for targeted drug delivery systems that could revolutionize disease treatments. This research was recently published in Materials Today Bio. matse.illinois.edu/news/75471

It was an exciting day recently viewing the new fabrication site at TSMC Arizona and meeting with several materials science alumni, including TSMC Arizona President Rose Castanares. Our department looks forward to building a collaborative partnership with TSMC.

Congratulations to Alice Gao, who the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has named Tutor of the Year. Gao made a concerted effort to give back to her community through mentoring others at the Center for Academic Resources in Engineering (CARE). matse.illinois.edu/news/75553

In a breakthrough for quantum computing, Founder Professor Axel Hoffmann has demonstrated how magnon pulses maintain quantum coherence across separated materials, creating controllable interference patterns similar to light waves. matse.illinois.edu/news/75165

Assistant Professor Chris Anderson's proposal, entitled "Electrically Tunable On-chip Quantum Entanglement in Silicon Carbide Photonics," was recently selected by the Coherent/II-IV Foundation's Block-Gift Program for funding. matse.illinois.edu/news/75490

Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Bengü Süeda Şengül, first place winner in a recent JUAMI Charz Research Proposal Competition! Bengü partnered with a Tanzanian student to develop a water treatment solution using biochar from moringa trees. LINK: bit.ly/3FbMeYX