Announcements

3/4/25 Congratulations to Vincent on passing his Candidacy exam!

2/26/25 Congratulations to Xubing on passing his Candidacy exam!

10/31/24 Congrats to Dr. Ting-Hsuan Chen for passing his thesis defense!

10/16/24 Congrats to Dr. Chenxi Sui for passing his thesis defense!

7/9/24 Congrats to Prof. Hsu for winning the EcoMat Young Researcher Award!

6/27/24 Congrats to Genesis for the 2024 Envisioning the Invisible photo contest win!

6/19/24 A Research Highlight on Ronghui’s paper published in Nature!

4/23/24 Congrats to Genesis for winning best poster at MRS 2024 Spring!

2/14/24 Congrats to Ron for passing his Candidacy exam!

12/1/23 Congratulations to Qingsong for winning best poster award at CAIRIBU meeting!

10/11/23 Congratulations to Sidney on passing his Candidacy exam!

08/16/23 Congrats to Prof. Hsu for being selected as a winner for the Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2023 in the category Engineering & Technology!

06/26/23 Chenxi’s article is accepted to Nano Letters!

06/21/23 A Research Highlight on Ting-Hsuan’s paper is published in Nature!

06/13/23 Ting-Hsuan’s paper is published in PNAS Nexus!

04/17/23 Congrats to Chenxi for showcasing his research in UChicago News!

04/11/23 Congrats to Chenxi for winning the Spring 2023 MRS Graduate Student Silver Award!

04/07/23 Congrats to Ron for being selected in the 2023 UChicago Science As Art competition!

11/28/22 Chenxi wins NRE Young Star Researcher Award 2022, congrats!

09/28/22 Welcome Blake, latest member of the Hsu group!

05/11/22 Welcome Ronghui to join the Hsu group!

04/13/22 Congrats to Genesis for passing her Research proposal defense!

04/06/22 Congrats to Chenxi for passing his Research proposal defense!

03/25/22 Congrats to Ting-Hsuan for passing his Research proposal defense!

03/19/22 Hsu group hosts the Light, Infrared, and Thermal Energy (LITE) Workshop!

12/30/21 Chenxi and Yao-Yu’s paper in Advanced Energy Materials is online!

12/16/21 Hsu group Holiday Party!

12/15/21 Xiuqiang’s paper is published in Science Advances!

12/14/21 Welcome Ron to join the Hsu group!

10/29/21 Hsu group learns how to carve pumpkins for Halloween!

10/14/21 Yunfei’s paper in ACS Energy Letters is online!

08/26/21 Welcome Jiawei and Jiacheng to join the Hsu group!

07/09/21 Congrats to Chenxi for winning the Fried Chicken Blind Taste Test

06/17/21 Congratulations to Yi-Ting and fiancé on their engagement!

06/01/21 Xiuqiang’s paper is published in ACS Energy Letters!

04/26/21 Haoming’s paper in Nano Letters is online!

03/18/21 Congratulations to Genesis on passing her Preliminary Exam!

03/01/21 Congratulations to Ting-Hsuan on passing his Preliminary Exam!

02/02/21 Congratulations to Chenxi on passing his Preliminary exam!

EcoMat Conference 2024
“Inspired by nature, 3D printed “trees” were imploded to reach micrometer dimensions for battery technology applications… A crystal-like texture appears because of the post-processing treatments at high temperatures generating a beautiful fictional winter micro-scene. The components are sacrificial structures used as temporary molds. Once they disappear, their shape will be retained by the surrounding active material. Hence, a forest of “invisible trees” is created within our battery.” – Genesis Higueros
Falling Walls Science Summit 2023
“A monolayer of 250nm SiO2 nanoparticles were deposited onto a solid-electrolyte membrane. After dry etching with Trifluoromethane, I accidentally found a beautiful fern-like, dendritic morphologies appeared on the corner of my solid-electrolyte membrane. The SEM image shows that only the SiO2 nanoparticles within fern-shape area were etched away, and others remains intact. I didn’t expect to have this but it is beautiful.” – Ron Hung
LITE 2022 at Duke University