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Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by SYFY WIRE as Chill, because a beetle that can survive volcanic temperatures inspired a next-gen cooling material (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by la Repubblica as Dagli insetti una lezione sul raffreddamento passivo (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by Popular Mechanics as This Badass Beetle Could Keep Your Car Cool (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by Ikons as Kumbang yang Hidup di Daerah Vulkanik Menginspirasi Bahan Pendingin Baru (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by Innovazione as Raffreddamento passivo, e se copiassimo gli scarabei? (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by Nanowerk as Beetle that can survive in volcanic areas inspires new cooling materials (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by New Atlas as Volcano-dwelling beetle inspires passive cooling coating (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by Small Tech News as Volcanic beetles inspire scientists to invent new materialthatforthistically cool (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by The Patent as Passive cooling coating from volcano beetles (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by ZME Science as Volcano-dwelling beetle inspires new ‘passive cooling’ material (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by Sohu as 火山甲虫启发科学家发明了可被动冷却的新型材料 (June 2020).

Our work Biologically Inspired Flexible Photonic Films for Efficient Passive Radiative Cooling (PNAS 2020) was featured by UT News as Beetle That Can Survive in Volcanic Areas Inspires New Cooling Materials along with a video (June 2020).

Hongru Ding, Jie Fang received Presenter Fee Grant from the OSA Foundation and the Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Fund to give talks on “Versatile optothermal micro/nanorobots for cellular biology”, “Enhanced mid-infrared molecular sensing with single silicon antennas” at the CLEO 2020 Conference, respectively. Congratulations! (April 2020).

Our work Opto-Thermoelectric Pulling of Light-Absorbing Particles (Light: Science & Applications 2020) was featured by NewScientist as Licht gebruikt om aan deeltjes te trekken (March 2020).

Our work Optical Nanomanipulation on Solid Substrates via Optothermally-Gated Photon Nudging (Nature Communications 2019) was among Top 50 Physics Articles in Nature Communications (March 2020).

Our work Opto-Thermoelectric Pulling of Light-Absorbing Particles (Light: Science & Applications 2020) was featured by 中国光学 as “逆光飞翔”，简单平面波实现长程光学牵引作用 (March 2020).

Our work Opto-Thermoelectric Pulling of Light-Absorbing Particles (Light: Science & Applications 2020) was featured by EurekAlert! as Particle travelling against the light (March 2020).

Jingang Li has been selected to receive a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship for 2020-2021. The fellowship carries a stipend of $30,000 over 12 months (with a total value of award at $44,000), speaking highly of his record of accomplishments (February 2020).

Our work Overcoming Diffusion-Limited Trapping in Nanoaperture Tweezers Using Opto-Thermal-Induced Flow (Nano Letters 2020) was featured by Nanowerk as “Bubble- and convection-assisted trapping significantly speed up nanotweezers” (December 2019).

Our work Optical Nanomanipulation on Solid Substrates via Optothermally-Gated Photon Nudging (Nature Communications 2019) was featured by X-Mol as “UT Austin郑跃兵Nature Commun.：固体表面的纳米材料光学操控技术” (December 2019).

Our work Optical Nanomanipulation on Solid Substrates via Optothermally-Gated Photon Nudging (Nature Communications 2019) was featured by Nanowerk as “The first optical nanomanipulators on solid substrates” (December 2019).

Our works All-Optical Reconfigurable Chiral Metamolecules (Materials Today 2019) and Moiré Chiral Metamaterials (Advanced Optical Materials 2017) were featured in Michael Berger’s another exciting book “Nanoengineering: The Skills and Tools Making Technology Invisible” (December 2019).

Jingang Li has been awarded the 2019 Ben Streetman Prize, a university-wide award given annually for outstanding research by a graduate student in electronic and photonic materials and devices. Congratulations, Jingang! (TMI News) (December 2019).

Our work Accumulation-Driven Unified Spatiotemporal Synthesis and Structuring of Immiscible Metallic Nanoalloys (Matter) was featured by Matter Preview as Overcoming Immiscibility via a Milliseconds-Long “Shock” Synthesis toward Alloyed Nanoparticles (December 2019).

Our work Accumulation-Driven Unified Spatiotemporal Synthesis and Structuring of Immiscible Metallic Nanoalloys (Matter) was featured by Laser Focus World as Laser-mediated microbubble trap synthesizes metallic nanoalloys (December 2019).

Our work Accumulation-Driven Unified Spatiotemporal Synthesis and Structuring of Immiscible Metallic Nanoalloys (Matter) was featured by Nanowerk as From Origin of Life to Materials Genomics (November 2019).

Our work Room-Temperature Active Modulation of Valley Dynamics in a Monolayer Semiconductor through Chiral Purcell Effects (Advanced Materials) was featured by MaterialsViewsChina as Advanced Materials：表面等离超材料中的手性Purcell效应在室温下实现对单层半导体中能谷电子的调控 (November 2019).

Our work Room-Temperature Active Modulation of Valley Dynamics in a Monolayer Semiconductor through Chiral Purcell Effects (Advanced Materials) has been selected to be featured on a Frontispiece (October 2019).

Our work Room-Temperature Active Modulation of Valley Dynamics in a Monolayer Semiconductor through Chiral Purcell Effects (Advanced Materials) was featured by Nanowerk as Valleytronics in a monolayer semiconductor at room temperature (October 2019).

Yuebing Zheng has been granted membership on Graduate Studies Committee of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (October 2019).

Yuebing Zheng has been granted membership on Graduate Studies Committee of Department of Biomedical Engineering (October 2019).

Upon receiving his PhD degree in Materials Science and Enigneering at UT Austin, Xiaolei Peng has decided to join Pony.ai (Self-driving car starup) in California as an Optomechanical Engineer. Congratulations, Dr. Peng! (September 2019).

We have been selected to receive the 2019 University Co-op Research Excellence Award for Best Paper (August 2019).

Yuebing Zheng serves as editorial board member of journal Sensors and Actuators Reports, a peer-reviewed open access journal launched out from the Sensors and Actuators journal family (August 2019).

We have been selected to receive the 2019 Texas Health Catalyst Consulting Award (August 2019).

Our work Thermo-Electro-Mechanics at Individual Particles in Complex Colloidal Systems has been selected as Journal of Physical Chemistry C Supplementary Journal Cover Article (August 2019).

We are among the Top 5% of Highly Cited Authors in Analytical Portfolio of Royal Society of Chemistry Journals according to Clarivate Analytics (July 2019).

Our Beckman Young Investigator Award Video is online (July 2019).

Yuebing Zheng is among the 2019 Class of Senior Members of the Optical Society of America (July 2019).

Our work Digital Manufacturing of Advanced Materials: Challenges and Perspective is highlighted by Polymer (July 2019).