Northwestern University researchers have significantly advanced in how they produce exotic open-framework superlattices made of hollow metal nanoparticles. Their research was published today in the journal, Nature (Nature Portfolio). news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/1…

Congratulations to our 2023 Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award winner, Yuanwei Li (Mirkin Group)! Congratulations also to our runners-up, Boran Chen (Torkelson Lab) and Jane Edgington (The Seitz Lab). All 3 will give talks at our annual department retreat in September!

NU Engineering’s Horacio Espinosa (HoracioEspinosa) & Chad Mirkin (Chad A. Mirkin) explored how nanoscale materials could be organized into macroscopic structures exhibiting properties that exceed conventional bulk materials. bit.ly/MaterialNanosc…

Thrilled to share our work published in Nature Materials on geometrically designed colloidal quasicrystals, realized by DNA-programmable assembly. A big step towards the rational quasicrystal formation! #MaterialScience #DNA #Quasicrystals Nature Materials nature.com/articles/s4156…

Cheers to another year of incredible innovation and leadership! Happy Birthday, Chad Mirkin (Chad A. Mirkin).

Published in Science Magazine yesterday "Space-tiled colloidal crystals from DNA-forced shape-complementary polyhedra pairing". Nobel prize-quality work. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited and honored to be named a Stanford Science Fellow! Heartfelt thanks to my advisors, Chad A. Mirkin and Jennifer Dionne for their invaluable support! Also, thanks to Prof. V.P. Dravid , Koray Aydin , and Devleena Samanta! A shout-out to Dakota McCoy, Ph.D. as well!

Scientists on Friday, Engineers today! 11 new Ph.D.s in total. Congratulations Namrata, Yuanwei, Caroline, Wenjie, Donghoon, Jasper, and Michael! International Institute for Nanotechnology Michael Evangelopoulos

Congratulations to our 2024 WIC Travel Awardees! American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) #WICisYOU

This research by Argonne National Lab Northwestern International Institute for Nanotechnology Northwestern Chemistry leverages the capabilities of PINEM to probe the #LightMatterInteractions within plasmonic #NanoFrames structures, which has crucial implications for #Biosensing and #Photocatalysis. Read: go.acs.org/b8V

I am excited to share our recent publication in ACS Nano, where we unveiled spatial and temporal dynamics of electrons inside plasmonic nanoparticles using Ultrafast Electron Microscopy (UEM) at Argonne. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Here's where you can find me at #AIChEAnnual: 1. Faculty candidate poster #77: Oct. 27, 1:00 to 3:00 PM; Exhibit Hall GH 2. NSEF Faculty candidate talk: Oct. 28, 1:30 to 1:50 PM; Hilton Cobalt 501AB Happy to chat about assembly, nanophotonics, biosensing, and photocatalysis.

Excited to be selected and looking forward to meeting everyone soon!

Excited to co-organize the #Pacifichem2025 symposium “Harnessing Synthetic Metamaterials: Exploring Optical and Mechanical Frontiers in Materials Chemistry” (#PHY012) with Jwa-Min Nam, Yunyan Qiu, Sangmin Lee, Haixin Lin & Wenjie Zhou ! Abstracts due April 2. Join us in Hawaii!

Meet the 2025 CAS Future Leaders 35 early-career scientists have been selected to participate in intensive leadership training. cen.acs.org/acs-news/progr…

Yuanwei is focused on developing new nanophotonic platforms for biosensing and photocatalysis. Learn more about Yuanwei Li and the 2025 #CASFutureLeaders before they arrive in Columbus this month. ow.ly/FNr050WqLnI