News

10/2021: Dr. Qing Tu is selected to receive the 2021 Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Award. Thanks to the support from ASME Applied Mechanics Division and the Haythornthwaite Foundation!
07/2021: Our proposal for MRS Fall 2021 symposium “EQ07 – Defects and Strain Potential Enabled Emergent Behavior in Two-Dimensional Materials” in Boston, MA, is funded. Thanks to the support from NSF – Mechanics of Materials & Structures (MOMS) Program. The fund will be used to support graduate students to attend the conference, with priority given to female and underrepresented minority students, to promote student diversity and foster an interdisciplinary community of Mechanics and Materials at MRS. If you happen to work in the field related to Mechanics/Strain-related topics of 2D materials, please considering attending the symposium and apply for the fund support to cover conference attendance costs.
07/2021: First group gathering at Fusion Peru. After a year of pandemic, we were finally able to get together to celebrate Raj’s graduation and Doyun’s first paper. Thanks to you all for your hard work! BTW, the food is great!
06/2021: Our proposal on investigating the fundamental electronic properties of fossil fuel byproducts for green energy harvesting is recommended for funding! Thanks to the support from ACS Petroleum Research Fund!
06/2021: Raj successfully defended his thesis on the frictional properties of 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites. He will continue his PhD study in MSEN department at TAMU. Congratulations, Raj!
06/2021: Doyun’s first leading-author paper, “In-Plane Mechanical Property of 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites Nanosheets: Structure-Property Relationship” has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and will be online soon. Congratulations to the team!
06/2021: Our review article “Mechanics-Coupled Stability of Metal Halide Perovskites” has been accepted by Matter and will be online soon. Congratulations to the team!
05/2021: Our co-authored paper “2D Hybrid Perovskites (CmH2m+1NH3)2(CH3NH3)Pb2Br7 (m = 6−8) with Long Organic Spacers: Structure, Film Fabrication, Stability and Photophysical Properties” has been accepted by Chemistry of Materials, and will be online soon. Congratulations to the team!
10/2020: Our co-authored paper “Ovarian stiffness increases with age in the mammalian ovary and depends on collagen and hyaluronan matrices” has been accepted by Aging Cell, and can be found here. It unveils how aging will affect the mechanical properties of ovary organ and thus the human reproduce capability, and correlates to the tissue composition. Congratulations to the team!
04/2020: Our paper “Exploring the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties of 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites” has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, check here
03/2020: Our co-authored paper “Alternative Route for Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis by Reduction of Nitrate on Copper Nanosheets” has been accepted by Applied Materials Today and will soon be online
02/2020: Our co-authored paper “Single-Crystal Polycationic Polymer Obtained by Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Photopolymerization” has been accepted by Journal of the American Chemical Society, check here.
11/2019: Our co-authored paper “Structured Silicon for Revealing Transient and Integrated Signal Transductions in Microbial Systems” has been accepted by Science Advances and will soon be online.
08/2019: Dr. Qing Tu was selected as a recipient for AVS Electronic Materials and Photonics Division (EMPD) Postdoctoral Travel Award. Qing will attend the AVS 66th International Symposium and Exhibit in Oct. 2019 and present his work on mechanical effects on the electronic properties of 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites.
05/2019: Our new paper “Ethylenediammonium-Based “Hollow” Pb/Sn Perovskites with Ideal Band Gap Yield Solar Cells with Higher Efficiency and Stability” is published on Journal of the American Chemical Society.
04/2019: Dr. Qing Tu is invited to give a talk in SPIE-MRSEC Student Seminar Series, McCormick Graduate Student Colloquium, Northwestern University
04/2019: Our new paper “Two-dimensional copper nanosheets for electrochemical reduction of carbon monoxide to acetate” is published on Nature Catalysis and is picked as the front cover.
03/2019: Dr. Qing Tu is invited to give a talk in the Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
02/2019: Our new paper “Mapping Hot Spots at Heterogeneities of Few-Layer Ti3C2 MXene Sheets” is published on ACS Nano.
02/2019: Our new paper “Probing Strain-Induced Band Gap Modulation in 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites” is published on ACS Energy Letters.