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Our work Digital Manufacturing of Advanced Materials: Challenges and Perspective is featured on Inside Front Cover of Materials Today (July 2019).

Our work Dark-Exciton-Mediated Fano Resonance from a Single Gold Nanostructure on Monolayer WS2 at Room Temperature is featured on Inside Back Cover of Small (June 2019).

Linhan Lin has decided to join the Department of Precision Instruments at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) as an Associate Professor. Congratulations to Prof. Lin! (May 2019).

Our work All-Optical Reconfigurable Chiral Metamolecules has been featured as Materials Today Inside Front Cover Article (May 2019).

Xiaolei Peng has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations to Dr. Peng! (May 2019).

Our optothermal tweezers were featured by Medical Device Developments as “Little wonders” (April 2019).

Our group received a DEFENSE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (DURIP) Award (April 2019).

Yuebing Zheng has been appointed as a J Mike Walker Faculty Scholar in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin (March 2019).

Mingsong Wang honored with 2018 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (TMI news; Consulate) (March 2019).

Our work All-Optical Reconfigurable Chiral Metamolecules has been featured by X-MOL as “Mater. Today：光镊技术组装手性超构材料” (March 2019).

Our work All-Optical Reconfigurable Chiral Metamolecules has been featured by Nanowerk as “Bottom-up assembled chiral meta-molecules” (March 2019).

Dr. Zheng is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective 1 September 2019 (February 2019).

Dr. Zheng has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (January 2019).

Dr. Zheng received the Franklin Award for Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service (The Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin) (January 2019).

Our work on Tunable Fano Resonance and Plasmon-Exciton Coupling in Single Au Nanotriangles on Monolayer WS2 at Room Temperature, which is published in Advanced Materials 30 (2018) 1705779, is featured among “Breakthroughs of nanotechnology in 2018” (Jiajun Zhu‚ Baiquan Liu‚ and Daniel Bellet, Advances toward the development of nanotechnology: current challenges and new frontiers in materials, processes, devices, and applications, ISBN: 978-620-2-22099-6, Akademiker Verlag‚ Germany‚ 2019) (January 2019).

Bharath has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation (in Materials Science and Engineering Program) and decided to join Intel in Oregon as a Device/Integration Engineer. Congratulations to Dr. Rajeeva! (November 2018).

Our work on Manipulating Nanoparticles in an Opto-Thermoelectric Field has been elected as OPN’s Year in Optics and featured as Front Cover Article (November 2018).

Dr. Zheng has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (November 2018).

The Engineering Translator– Episode 4 – A Game of Light with Yuebing Zheng (October 2018).

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers, which is published in Nature Photonics 12 (2018) 195-201, is among Nature Collection of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018. Congratulations to Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland on Nobel Prize in Physics for laser control! (October 2018).

Our work on Nanoradiator-Mediated Deterministic Opto-Thermoelectric Manipulation, which is published in ACS Nano, has been featured by Nanowerk as “Nanoradiators allow precise optical manipulation of nanoparticles” (October 2018).

Our work on “opto-thermoelectric tweezers and assembly” has been chosen as 2018 OPN’s Year in Optics and featured as Manipulating Nanoparticles in an Opto-Thermoelectric Field in the December issue of Optics & Photonics News. Each year, the December issue of Optics & Photonics News—the monthly magazine of The Optical Society—highlights the most exciting optics research to emerge in the preceding 12 months (October 2018).

Dr. Zheng has been selected to receive Materials Today Rising Star Award (TMI News) (September 2018).

Our work on Opto-Thermophoretic Manipulation and Construction of Colloidal Superstructures in Photocurable Hydrogels will be featured as Front Cover Article of ACS Applied Nano Materials (August 2018).

Our work on Opto-thermoplasmonic Nanolithography for On-Demand Patterning of 2D Materials, which was published in Advanced Functional Materials 7 (2018) 1803990, has been featured by Xincailiao (August 2018).

Our work on Opto-thermoplasmonic Nanolithography for On-Demand Patterning of 2D Materials, which was published in Advanced Functional Materials 7 (2018) 1803990, has been featured as Back Cover Article (August 2018).

Our work on Tunable Fano Resonance and Plasmon-Exciton Coupling in Single Au Nanotriangles on Monolayer WS2 at Room Temperature, which was published in Advanced Materials 30 (2018) 1705779, has been highlighted by Materials Views China (August 2018).

Our work on Opto-thermoplasmonic Nanolithography for On-Demand Patterning of 2D Materials, which was published in Advanced Functional Materials 7 (2018) 1803990, has been featured by Nanowerk (August 2018).

Zilong Wu (left) and Mingsong Wang (right) received Ph.D degree in Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, respectively. Congratulations to Dr. Wu and Dr Wang! (May 2018)

Our undergraduate student Majd A Alabandi discusses his research on “Integrating Mobile App Software with Bubble Pen Lithography.”

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Austin National Public Radio – KUT Public Media. (March 2018)

Our work on Chiral Metamaterials via Moiré Stacking was selected as cover article by Nanoscale (July 2018).

Our work on Opto-Thermophoretic Manipulation of Colloidal Particles in Non-Ionic Liquids was selected as cover article by Journal of Physical Chemistry C (June 2018).

Dr. Eric Hill was selected to receive Leadership of an Independent Junior Research Group in Germany. Congratulations! (May 2018).

Our work on Mid-Infrared Superabsorbers Based on Quasi-Periodic Moiré Metasurfaces has been featured as cover article by Chinese Optics Letters (May 2018).

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Focus Laser World as “Opto-thermoelectric nanotweezers improve particle-trapping efficiency.”; also featured on the magazine cover (May 2018).

Dr. Zheng serves at The 2018 GEC Catalyst Awards Judging Committee. See Awards announcment “Personal Connected Health Alliance and Green Electronics Council Partner to Host GEC Catalyst Awards at 2018 Connected Health Conference” at ABC-6; NBC-2; Fox-5; CBS-8; (April 2018).

Our work on “Reconfigurable Opto-Thermoelectric Printing of Colloidal Particles” has been featured by Atlas of Science as “Erasable opto-thermoelectric printing.” (April 2018).

Intel’s HPC editorial program features some of our research in “Nanoparticle Research Provides New Applications for Industry and Everyday Life.” (April 2018).

Our work on “Tunable Fano Resonance and Plasmon-Exciton Coupling in Single Au Nanotriangles on Monolayer WS2 at Room Temperature” has been featured as Frontispiece of Advanced Materials (April 2018).