Group members

March 19, 2021: To rise with the sun (and a La Peep breakfast afterwards)!

Selected external awards won by our students

• TomKat Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainable Energy, Stanford University
• 2 Profiles in “Women in Nanoscience” (Che-Ning Yeh and Hua-li Nie)
• NSF-KAUST DIY Electronics Innovation Contest
• ECS Nanocarbons Division SES Young Investigator Award (For Dr. Jiayan Luo, based partially on his thesis work in the group)
• Carbon Journal Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Carbon Research (2 awards in 2014) (typically 1 award per year, an exception was made in 2014 to give 2 awards)
• Josephine de Karman Fellowship (<8 awards per year to PhD candidates in any discipline in North America)
• P.E.O. Scholar Awards (recognizes outstanding female PhD candidates in North America)
• MRS Graduate Student Awards (2 Gold and 2 Silver awards)
• NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship
• NSF Graduate Fellowship (4 awards+1 honorable mention)
• NSF Engineering Innovation Fellowship
• NDSEG Fellowship
• Forbes 30 Under 30
• Clean Energy Trust Consumer Favorite Prize
• Illinois Technology Foundation Fifty For The Future Award
• Phi Beta Kappa