Our latest paper is out in Nature Chemistry. Yifan Sun Yifan Sun assembled a stellar team to uncover fundamental insights into how Au and Ag deposit on various TMDs, including the unexpected discovery of a single atom thick Ag film on ditelluride TMDs.

A team of researchers at Penn State and Purdue Chemical Engineering — including Eberly scientists Yifan Sun, Ray Schaak, Mauricio Terrones, @nanqprof, and CamHolder — has developed new materials for improved catalysis and future electronics applications ⚗️ buff.ly/2VomAGN

Article | Atomically thin half-van der Waals metals enabled by confinement heteroepitaxy. MatSE @ Penn State go.nature.com/3dqZS7L

We continue to be proud of @julielfenton and her growing list of accomplishments, including her recent appointment to the ACS Materials Letters Early Career Advisory Board. Julie is helping to shape the future of the field!

Tiny titanium barrier designed Penn State halts big problem in fuel-producing #solarcells #ScienceNeverSleeps energy.gov/science/bes/ar…

Congrats Mauricio!

Delighted to share our work now ASAP in ACS Central Science , where we demonstrated defect engineering of surface-confined high-entropy oxides for enhanced catalysis. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Oxygen defect engineering of ceria nanocrystals is realized by building surface-confined high-entropy oxide layers, which exhibit enhanced CO oxidation capabilities. ASAP by Sheng Dai, Jue Liu, & team Oak Ridge Lab Read here: go.acs.org/1zm

It’s been a little over two years since the start of NiNC! The seminar is now at 1500+ subscribers - thank you to all participants and countless great speakers over these years. We look forward to seeing you again in the fall 🙌

Our NEW issue is now live. Read it here: go.acs.org/23m Cover story by Sheng Dai, Jue Liu, & team Oak Ridge Lab

Pleased to share our perspective on the structural heterogeneity of nanocatalysts, where complexity emerges from simple nanoscale objects. Now ASAP in ACS Nanoscience Au🔓

My lab at HIT (Shenzhen) is recruting postdoc researchers to study the collective behaviors of active colloids. Both experimentalists and theoreticians are welcome to apply. Background in soft matter, colloids, or microfluidics are bonus. See weiwang-hitsz.weebly.com for details.

Watch the Nobel Prize lectures in chemistry. See the 2023 chemistry laureates Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov deliver their Nobel Prize lectures. Where are you watching from? #NobelPrize x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Congrats to Ray Schaak for being awarded the American Chemical Society 2025 F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, which recognizes his outstanding achievements in the field! Read More ➡️ psu.edu/news/eberly-co… Penn State Eberly College of Science Penn State Research Penn State #PennStateChemistry

We’re excited to have our tutorial on crystal structures featured on the cover of ACS Nanoscience Au! We had a lot of fun putting the tutorial together and hope that it’s useful to the community. pubs.acs.org/toc/anaccx/cur…

Pleased to share our review article on high-entropy materials (HEMs) synthesis in Nature Synthesis . Controllable, versatile and predictive fabrication of HEMs will be the key towards harmonizing precision and disorder.

Interested in how vapor "squeeze" triggers guest release from sponge-like macrocycle crystals? Please check our recent discovery. Angewandte Chemie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

2026 AI for Materials, Energy, and Chemical Sustainability Conference GRC grc.org/ai-for-materia…

New paper out in AFM! We show that NHC-functionalized TMD surfaces unlock ambient H2 activation via an FLP pathway. A fun dive into the molecular functionalization of 2D materials! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… #2Dmaterials #FLP #SurfaceChemistry