News Articles by Zhuoying Lin
- Fundamental study determines Pt surface hydronium pKa and reveals correlation with HER kinetics (10/20/22) – A research collaboration between Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professor Yu Huang’s group in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor William A. Goddard III’s group at the California Institute of Technology, experimentally determined the interfacial pKa of hydronium ions (H3O+) on platinum surface equals 4.3, a value distinct from that in the bulk (0).
- Superlattice material to filer electrons with high selectivity (8/2/22) – A chiral molecular intercalation superlattice (CMIS) designed by Duan’s group achieves a remarkable spin polarization ratio of more than 60%, among the highest selectivity achieved in molecular spin tunneling junctions.
- Video by Duan group postdoc is among the top 50 videos in Nature’s “science in shorts” competition (7/29/22) – Dr. Zhong Wan, a postdoctoral researcher in the Duan group, has found an engaging way to explain his research to the public through sandwich making.
- Professor Xiangfeng Duan Faculty Research Spotlight for UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Annual Report (Spring 2022)
- UCLA researchers develop non-destructive image processing method for advanced cancer research (5/2/22) – A team led by Professor Shimon Weiss and former PhD student Arkaprabha Basu has developed an image processing technique, SPOCC, which quantifies cytoskeletal properties using microscopic images.
- UCLA research uncovers and implements a path to the performance limit of 2D Diodes (1/26/22) -Exciting collaborative effort from the Duan and Caram labs unlocked the secrets approaching the fundamental performance limit of 2D semiconductor diodes for the first time, providing critical design principles for electronic devices.
- New Liquid Helium Recycling System Offers Sustainable Research (1/25/22) – The newly installed system supports research instruments requiring liquid helium, a nonrenewable resource that has recently become less commercially available.
- Approaching the fundamentals of 2D semiconductor diodes: excitons, why can’t we meet in the middle? (12/9/21) – Exciting collaborative effort from the Duan and Caram labs unlocked the secrets approaching the fundamental performance limit of 2D semiconductor diodes for the first time, providing critical design principles for electronic devices.
- Promising nanoengineered spiky thorn-like particles treatment against HSV (11/2/21) – Led by PhD student Amir Nasajpour in Professor Paul Weiss’s lab, the research engineered spiky rose thorn-like nanomaterial that establishes great antibacterial activity to slow herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV).
Zhuoying Lin (Duan Group), zylin@g.ucla.edu, is a chemistry graduate student and science writer who joined our program in Fall 2021.
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