Ed’s work on ultrasoft slip-mediated bending in 2D materials and heterostructures was selected as the best paper for the session (S.NMO6) at the 2020 Spring/ Fall MRS!

Kayla wins the prestigious L’Oreal Fellowship for Women in Science. You can watch her featured video here! Congratulations!

Chia-hao wins student scholar award at 2020 Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference for his work on “­Detecting Vacancy-Induced Strain Field Oscillations via Deep Learning”. Congratulations!

Ed wins Spring 2020 Materials Research Society’s Graduate Student Gold Award. Congratulations!

Jeff is selected as a DIGI-MAT trainee. He receives two years of fellowship funding and the opportunity to do an internship. Congratulations!

Kayla receives Microscopy Today Innovations Award! Congratulations!

Blanka’s new paper, on “Quantitative imaging of organic ligand density on anisotropic inorganic nanocrystals” was published in Nano Letters this week and was selected as an ACS Editor’s Choice paper!

Kayla has been selected as Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Associate and Visiting Scholar. Congratulations!

Dr. Kayla Nguyen joined our group in Jan 2019!   During her PhD, Kayla developed a new electron detector for scanning transmission electron microscopy, and she was awarded the Lemeson-MIT Inventor’s prize.  Kayla recently delivered a TEDx talk on the EMPAD detector in Vienna.

The Materials Research Lab is holding an inaugural event on Dec 11 for our new aberration-corrected Themis Z scanning transmission electron microscope. More info at: https://mrl.illinois.edu/events/themis-inauguration