Very happy to share our recent report in Chemical Science on the role of metal nanoparticles in the directed crystallization of quasi-1D van der Waals crystals using Bi4I4, a topological insulator, as a model phase UCI Chemistry #EQI (1/3) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Single Quasi-1D Chains of Sb2Se3 Encapsulated within Carbon #Nanotubes By Maxx Arguilla et al. UC Irvine Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/8xm

Thank you for featuring our team’s most recent work!

Glad to have been able to share our group’s vision and mentoring philosophy through this platform. Thank you, @AdvSciNews!

Excited to finally see in Chemistry of Materials our first foray in conducting organic-functionalized quasi-1D Chevrel-type nanocrystals! #UCIchemistry (1/3) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Buffer Chain Model for Understanding Crystallization Competition in Conjugated Polymers (Jian Pei and co-workers) Yang Lu Zefan Yao onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Photocatalysis has driven many advances in organic synthesis. In this recent nature paper, we demonstrate its application in catalyzing the oxidation and reduction (doping) of organic semiconductors. KAW Lab of Organic Elec. Advanced Functional Materials nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out our work on the highly sensitive thermochromic behavior of an exfoliable helical van der Waals crystal, InSeI, featured as the back cover of Advanced Materials Volume 36, Issue 21: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Very excited to share our recent work, now online in Chemical Science, on the encapsulation of well-defined and optoelectronically-active Sb2S3 chains within carbon and boron nanotubes! UCI Chemistry UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences (1/3) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Congrats to Zefan Yao on his most recent work published in Science Advances! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… In collaboration with Maxx Arguilla, we continue our quest for surface-guided approaches to direct the assembly of optoelectronic peptides. (1/2)

Very excited to (finally) share this highly collaborative work spearheaded by Dr. Zefan Yao and co-led with Prof. Herdeline Ardoña (Digs), now appearing in Science Advances! UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UCI Engineering (1/2) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thank you, Biophysics Reviews , for featuring the recent review article by graduate students from our group— Katie Lee and Natalie Celt! CBE@UCI UC Irvine BME

Excited to share our work, now appearing in J. Am. Chem. Soc., on the synthesis of an all-inorganic 1D van der Waals helical crystal that is non-centrosymmetric and displays an unusual “squircular” (it’s a real word!) tetrahelix cross-section UCI Chemistry (1/3) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

As solid state chemists, it is rare that we get to emulate structural motifs found in nature in our synthetic crystals. Appearing in Nature Materials, we report our discovery of a new all-inorganic helical material. UCI Chemistry UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences UC Irvine (1/4)

My group and I have always wondered if it would be possible to arrest the lateral growth of one-dimensional crystals and grow longer nanowires. Here, we show that Pierls-like dimerization in NbS3 promotes the 1D growth of nanowires with lengths approaching the cm-scale! (1/3)

Check out our article on Accounts of Chemical Research as a cover! Tuning side chains is a powerful approach to improve the chemical doping of conjugated polymers. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…, Peking University ACS Publications #MyACSCover

As a biomaterials engineer at UC Irvine, Herdeline Ardoña (Digs) creates materials that might one day solve the organ donor shortage or help scientists grow tissues that could be used to screen drugs or study diseases. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/biom… #CENT12

Finally out, check our latest research on light triggered doping of organic semiconductors

Nature research paper: Light-triggered regionally controlled n-doping of organic semiconductors go.nature.com/43BrQbJ

It was a regular autumn afternoon in 2017 at #PKU—until a spark of inspiration struck during Prof. Pei Jian’s Organic Chemistry lecture.💡Eight years on, that classroom epiphany has evolved into an exciting breakthrough in scalable organic circuits. #PKUResearch nature PKU Chemistry