Congratulations to our Bijal Patel for winning the prestigious NRC postdoctoral fellowship! He will join National Institute of Standards and Technology after a spectacular thesis work on 3D printing of structure color with our DMREF team. bit.ly/3nvPDnP @SingLabUIUC Simon Rogers and Guironnet group.

We are also celebrating Zhuang for being selected for the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering from Oak Ridge Lab and Argonne National Lab this Summer! We are happy for you and excited to learn from your new skills. Check out Zhuang's latest paper here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

We're hiring! 📣📣 Seeking a fun, organized Graduate Program Coordinator to contribute to our grad students' success in our top-ranked program. 🤩 Details: go.chbe.illinois.edu/GraduateProgra… Department vibes: youtu.be/tFK2mDGTeOU Pictured: our amazing grad students—come work with us!

For #TeamMemberThursday, meet Azzaya Khasbaatar who is a graduate student in the Ying Diao at @ChBE_Illinois. Her research focuses on organic photovoltaics and how molecular assembly pathway influences morphology and device performance. Read more: buff.ly/3w1pYq6

U of I College of LAS named Ying Diao (Ying Diao) a 2021-2022 I.C. Gunsalus Scholar. This endowment supports the scholarship and teaching of young faculty members in the physical and life sciences. She joins Dr Brendan Harley is at @profharley.bsky.social, a 2015-2016 Gunsalus Scholar. bit.ly/33JNFHu

Humbling to join Dr Brendan Harley is at @profharley.bsky.social and Andrew Leakey in this honor! Credits go to my group The Diao Lab who showed incredible resilience over a difficult year keeping our research alive.

Crystal dichroism by design: perfluorophenyl embraces and boron coordination help an azo chromophore show its best colors. Check out the latest work from Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado and Ying Diao @ChBE_Illinois ow.ly/IPLz50EHsEp

Still time to submit an oral abstract for the Understanding Crystallisation Faraday Discussions Deadline July 12, event March 28-30, 2022 in York, UK, more info here: rsc.li/crystal-fd2022

Congrats, Azza! We are proud of you.

Congratulations to Azzaya Khasbaatar for winning the SCS teaching award! She is an excellent TA for my course Momentum and Heat Transfer where students learn how come helicopter can stop mid-air and how to help mom toast turkey :D

Congrats, Ying Diao! Professor Ying Diao has been honored with a 2021 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award from University of Illinois We are equally proud of the scope, quality, and impact of your scholarship, teaching, service, and engagement efforts! bit.ly/3k7V7nF

Check out our new recipe for switching π-stacking modes of organic semiconductors by isosteric cocrystallization! Now out in AIP Publishing and selected for the 2021 JCP Emerging Investigators Special Collection. The Diao Lab Illinois MRSEC ChBE Illinois aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to our amazing postdoc Kyung and grad students Justin and Prapti for leading this effort!

Congratulations Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado on developing a co-crystal approach to tune photonic properties. Everyone needs a helping hand, even organic electronics :)

LOOK AT US GO!!! 🤩🤩 congrats to The Diao Lab!

Amazing job, everyone! A good read for all conjugated polymer enthusiasts (and new group members!).

From our #UpAndComing #Perspective collection: Kwok, Prapti Kafle, and Park of the Ying Diao summarize the charge transport mechanism, fundamentals of conjugated polymer assembly, and solution printing. Read it here --> fal.cn/3kwQO The Diao Lab

Coming soon to a journal near you👀 Unraveling the origins of 2 distinct phase transitions in the same crystal! youtu.be/JOoKO-yesS0 doi.org/10.26434/chemr… The Diao Lab Ying Diao Prapti Kafle

#ILLINOIS researchers observed chirality, a property important to photosynthesis, in a type of polymer used in organic solar cell design.☀️ Their work could help enhance the cells' design and increase access to renewable energy▶️bit.ly/3M9Xcvh 📗doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

@BeckmanInst The Diao Lab Ying Diao Chemistry at Illinois ChBE Illinois @IllinoisMatSE The Grainger College of Engineering Nature Communications Congratulations to The Diao Lab and Chen lab on this beautiful work. Happy to play a small role in this study to explain molecular mechanism of chiral emergence.