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Cover Articles

  • “Molybdenum Disulfide: Scalable Fabrication of Molybdenum Disulfide Nanostructures and their Assembly“, Advanced Materials, 2, 2070324 (2020).
  • “Ultralight and Binder-Free All-Solid-State Flexible Supercapacitors for Powering Wearable Strain Sensors“, Advanced Functional Materials 2, 1702738 (2017), is featured on the inside back cover.
  • “Three-Dimensional Graphite-Polymer Flexible Strain Sensors with Ultrasensitivity and Durability for Real-Time Human Vital Sign Monitoring and Musical Instrument Education“, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2, 1700070 (2017), is featured on the front cover.
  • “Electrokinetic Manipulation Integrated Plasmonic–Photonic Hybrid Raman Nanosensors with Dually Enhanced Sensitivity“, ACS Sensors, 2, 346–353 (2017), is featured on the front cover.
  • Three-Dimensional Multilevel Porous Thin Graphite Nanosuperstructures for Ni(OH)2-based Energy Storage Devices“, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2, 15768-15773 (2014), is featured on the inside front cover.
  • “Our recent work on Ultrahigh-Speed Rotating Nanoelectromechanical System Devices Assembled from Nanoscale Building Blocks received considerable interest and was featured by NSF front-page news, BBC Focus Magazine, Keye TV, the HOOK, Woman in Nanoscience, UT Cockrell School of Engineering, among many news agencies. This work is also selected to be featured on the front cover of the text book Edexcel A-level Physics book 2 batch 1.
  • “Near-Field Enhanced Magnetic Plasmonic Bifunctional Nanotubes for Single Cell Bioanalysis“, Advanced Functional Materials, doi: 10.1002/adfm.20120382(link (2013) is slected to be featured on the front cover of the forthcoming issue.
  • “One-step Waferscale Synthesis of 3-D ZnO Nanosuperstructures by Designed Catalysts for Substantial Improvement of Solar Water Oxidation Efficiency“, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, DOI:10.1039/C3TA11462G (2013), is featured on the front cover.
  • “Near-Field Enhanced Magnetic Plasmonic Bifunctional Nanotubes for Single Cell Bioanalysis“, Advanced Functional Materials, doi: 10.1002/adfm.20120382 (2013). Highlighted in Hot topics by Wiley-VCH
  • “ Guided-Mode-Resonance-Coupled Plasmonic-Active SiO2 Nanotubes for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy“, Applied Physics Letters, 100, 191114 (2012). Selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
  • “Ordered Arrays of Raman Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive and Location Predictable Biochemical Detection“, Advanced Materials, 24, 5457 (2012). Ranked top 40 most accessed articles for August 16 and featured on the backcover
  • “Sub-cellular resolution delivery of a cytokine through precisely manipulated nanowires“, Nature Nanotechnology, doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.104, (2010). Hightlighted by Nature Nanotechnology News and Views: “Nanobiotechnology: Nanowires have cells in their sights”, doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.133
  • “Precision transport and assembling of nanowires in suspension by electric fields“, APL 2008, selected by Virtual Journals of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 17 issue 11
  • “Efficiency of assembling of nanowires in suspension by AC electric fields“, cover of APL issue on 27 November 2006
  • “Controllable high-speed rotation of metallic nanowires“, PRL 2005, selected by VJNANO 12(2), Reported by Nano Today, Physorg,com, APS news, World Gold Council
  • “Manipulation of nanowires by ac electric fields“, APL 2004, selected by VJNANO 10(20)

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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Electric-Field-Guided Catalytic Nanomotors for Cargo Delivery

Arrays of Rotary Nanomotors Assembled from Nanobuilding Blocks

Ultrahigh Rotation Speed: 18000 rpm Long Durability: 1 Million cycles for 80 hours

Position and Assemble MᴏS₂ Nanoribbons for Opto-electronics at the Click of UV-Light Button

Motorized Sensors Aim to Improve and Speed Up Early-Stage Disease Diagnosis

Nanosensor to speed up detection of trace amounts of biomarkers for early-disease diagnosis

Scalable Production of Molybdenum Disulfide

Material that can decontaminate water and be the basis of the advance, ultra-fast, light-based computers

Music Sensing

Dr. Fan's Music Sensing
Dr. Fan and team created a sensor that can help students improve in music education.

Texas Engineers Build World’s Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=s1NkvH98yEE

First-Ever Method for Controlling Nanomotors Developed by UT Engineers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=54gHpWWWMl4

A Rosy Solution To Clean Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOiZE8vNIAA

The first low-pressure solar steamer

Advanced Materials, 31, 1900720 (2019) doi:10.1002/adma.201900720

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