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Our work on “Point-and-Shoot” Synthesis of Metallic Ring Arrays and Surface-Enhanced Optical Spectroscopy“ has been featured as Front Cover Article of Advanced Optical Materials (April 2018).

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Photonics.com as “Optically Heated Nanotweezers Manipulate Materials at Nanoscale.” (April 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by NextBIGfuture as “Opto-thermoelectric Nanotweezers on path to commercialized nano-particle manipulators integrated to smartphones.” (April 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured as “‘Nanotweezers’ trap cells and nanoparticles with a laser beam” in “Five important biomedical technology breakthroughs” by Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence. (March 2018)

Our work on Moiré Chiral Metamaterials is selected to be included in the virtual Best of Advanced Optical Materials 2017 issue. (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured in Nature Photonics “News & Views” as “Thermoelectric fields hold nanoparticles.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by OSA-OPN as “Putting Metallic Nanoparticles in Their Place.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Nanotechweb as “Optical traps feel the heat.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Azo Nano as “Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers Could Revolutionize the Field of Medicine.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by The Daily Texan as “Newly invented nanotweezers can manipulate matter on tiny scales.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by VERDICT Medical Devices as “Nanotweezers could manipulate cells.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Product Design and Development as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Science Daily as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Controlled Environments as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by NovusLight as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by MDTmag as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Scienmag as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Nanowerk as “New nanotweezers open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by News-Medical as “New ‘nanotweezers’ could pave way for innovations in health monitoring and mobile technology.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Science Newsline as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by IEEE Electronics360 as “Nanotweezers Developed Could be Huge for Medical Technology.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Phys.org as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by SciTechDaily as “Nanotweezers open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by Eurekalert! as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been featured by UT News as “New ‘nanotweezers’ open door to innovations in medicine, mobile tech.” (March 2018)

Our work on Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers has been published in Nature Photonics: L. Lin, M. Wang, X. Peng, E. N. Lissek, Z. Mao, L. Scarabelli, E. Adkins, S. Coskun, H. E. Unalan, B. A. Korgel, L. M. Liz-Marzán, E. L. Florin, and Y. B. Zheng. Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers. Nature Photonics (March 2018).

Xiaolei Peng has been selected to receive a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship for 2018-2019. The fellowship carries a stipend of $28,000 over 12 months (with a total value of award at $40,000), speaking highly of his record of accomplishments (February 2018).

Our work “Moiré Metamaterials and Metasurfaces” published in Advanced Optical Materials is among Most Accessed of 01/2018 (January 2018).

Our papers “Light-Directed Reversible Assembly of Plasmonic Nanoparticles Using Plasmon-Enhanced Thermophoresis” and “Bubble-Pen Lithography” have been featured by an NPG Asia Materials review paper (January 2018).

Our work “Moiré Metamaterials and Metasurfaces” will be featured as Inside Cover Article of Advanced Optical Materials (January 2018).

Our work “Light-Directed Reversible Assembly of Plasmonic Nanoparticles Using Plasmon-Enhanced Thermophoresis” has been featured in ACS Virtual Issue “Progress in Top-Down Control of Bottom-Up Assembly“ (November 2017).

Our work “Bubble-Pen Lithography” has been featured in ACS Virtual Issue “Progress in Top-Down Control of Bottom-Up Assembly“ (November 2017).

Our work “Design and Applications of Lattice Plasmon Resonances” will be featured as Nano Research cover article (November 2017).

Dr. Zheng and the group have been selected to receive NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (October 2017). NIH news releases; 2017 Awardees; UT News; CSE News; BioArt; ScholarSet; Scholarupdate; ME News; TMI News; The Daily Texan; SPIE News;

Our work on Opto-Thermophoretic Assembly of Colloidal Matter [Science Advances 3 (2017) e1700458] has been featured by Laser Focus World as newsbreak “Opto-thermophoretic method easily assembles colloidal matter.” (October 2017).

Our work on Opto-Thermophoretic Assembly of Colloidal Matter [Science Advances 3 (2017) e1700458] has been featured by Nanowerk as “Assembling colloidal matter with an opto-thermophoretic strategy.” (September 2017).

Our work on Opto-Thermophoretic Assembly of Colloidal Matter [Science Advances 3 (2017) e1700458] has been featured by Nanotechweb as “Opto-thermophoretic technique assembles colloidal nanoparticles.” (September 2017).

Our work on Opto-Thermophoretic Assembly of Colloidal Matter [Science Advances 3 (2017) e1700458] has been featured by Xincailiao “胶体纳米粒子的新革命：光热解技术.” (September 2017).

Our work on Opto-Thermophoretic Assembly of Colloidal Matter [Science Advances 3 (2017) e1700458] has been featured by TodayChemical as “胶体纳米粒子的新革命：光热解技术.” (September 2017).

Dr. Zheng and the group have been selected to receive NASA CAREER award (August 2017). Project Summary; NASA Press Release; TMI News; ME News