Our team won the prestigious 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers Sustainable Development Award, at the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington, DC, as part of the USA Science and Engineering Festival. It is so exciting to share our research with the future scientists and engineers!Read More

“Piezotronic effect in 1D van der Waals solid of elemental tellurium nanobelt for smart adaptive electronics”, published in Semiconductor Science and Technology (SST) last year, has been chosen for SST 2017 highlights collection, based on a number of criteria, including presentation of outstanding research, popularity with our online readership and high praise from referees. Congratulations...Read More

Wenzhuo talks about our research to the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) Chapter at Purdue. Thanks for the kind invitation, and the exciting discussions! ​Read More

Advanced Materials published our research on chitosan-based biodegradable triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG). This paper reports our progress in engineering natural biomaterials as low-cost, biodegradable and flexible TENGs. Ph.D. student Ruoxing Wang conducted the research under the supervision of Prof. Wu.Read More

Wenzhuo gives a talk at the 4th Annual Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conferences (innoLAE 2018), held at Cambridge, UK by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Center for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics. Thanks for the kind invitation, and the exciting discussions!Read More

Wenzhuo gives an invited talk at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK. Thanks for the kind invitation, and the exciting discussions!​Read More

Yixiu’s work on “Large area direct laser shock imprinting of 3D biomimic hierarchical metal surface for triboelectric nanogenerator”, in collaboration with Prof. Gary Cheng’s group at Purdue is published on Advanced Materials. Congratulations!Read More

Our work in collabroation with Prof. Yuanyue Liu’s group at UT Austin “Tellurium: Fast Electrical and Atomic Transport along the Weak Interaction Direction” is published on JACS. Congratulations!Read More

Our group receives a grant from Idaho National Laboratory Battelle Energy Alliance to explore the nanomanufacturing of high-efficiency electrochemical systems. Thanks very much for the support!Read More

Wenzhuo gives an invited talk at the School of Public Health, NanTong University, China. Thanks for the kind invitation and the exciting discussions!Read More

Wenzhuo gives an invited talk at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, China. Thanks for the kind invitation and the exciting discussions!Read More

Wenzhuo gives an invited talk at the PRISM Center Research Seminar, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University. Thanks for the kind invitation, and the exciting discussions!Read More

Wenzhuo received the 2017 Early Career Best SST Paper Award (First Prize) at the MRS Fall Meeting for the paper titled “Piezotronic effect in 1D van der Waals solid of elemental tellurium nanobelt for smart adaptive electronics”, which is published in Semiconductor Science and Technology (Semicond. Sci. Technol. 32 104004). Our Ph. D. student Shengjie...Read More

Wenzhuo gives an invited talk at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Thanks for the kind invitation, and the exciting discussions!Read More

Wenzhuo gives an invited talk at the 3rd International Conference on Nanoenergy and Nanosystems (NENS), Beijing. Thanks for the kind invitation! It is so great to meet old and new friends!Read More