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Our work on “Interfacial-Entropy-Driven Thermophoretic Tweezers” will be featured as Lab on a Chip outside back cover article (August 2017).

Our work “Moiré Chiral Metamaterials” has been highlighted by MaterialsViewsChina (August 2017).

Our work on “Controlling Plasmon-Enhanced Fluorescence via Intersystem Crossing in Photoswitchable Molecules“ will be featured as a Frontispiece of journal Small (August 2017).

Our work on “Plasmon-Trion and Plasmon-Exciton Resonance Energy Tranfer from a Single Plasmonic Nanoparticle to Monolayer MoS2 ” will be featured as Nanoscale cover article (August 2017).

Our work “Moiré Chiral Metamaterials” has been highlighted by Nanotechweb (July 2017).

Our work “Moiré Chiral Metamaterials” has been highlighted by Nanowerk (July 2017).

Daniel Vong has received a 2017-2018 fellowship from the Cockrell School of Engineering (July 2017).

Xiaolei has received a 2017-2018 fellowship from the Cockrell School of Engineering (July 2017).

Our work “Thermophoretic Tweezers for Low-Power and Versatile Manipulation of Biological Cells” has been featured by X-MOL平台; 微信公众号 (July 2017).

Our work “Moiré Chiral Metamaterials” has been featured on inside front cover of Advanced Optical Materials (July 2017).

Our work “Patterning and Fluorescence Tuning of Quantum Dots with Haptic-Interfaced Bubble Printing” has been featured in Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2017 Emerging Investigator Issue; chosen as 2017 HOT paper; and featured as journal back cover (June 2017)

Bharath has accepted a summer internship at Oculus VR, which was acquired by Facebook, and will do R&D on virtual-reality displays in Seattle this summer (May 2017).

Our works ” High-Resolution Bubble Printing of Quantum Dots“ and “Patterning and Fluorescence Tuning of Quantum Dots with Haptic-Interfaced Bubble Printing” have been featured by 3DPrint as “Bubble Printing: Texas Researchers Develop New 3D Printing-like Method to Fabricate Quantum Dots.” (May 2017)

Our works ” High-Resolution Bubble Printing of Quantum Dots“ and “Patterning and Fluorescence Tuning of Quantum Dots with Haptic-Interfaced Bubble Printing” have been featured by Nanotechweb as “Bubble printing patterns quantum dots on plasmonic substrates.” (May 2017)

Our works ” High-Resolution Bubble Printing of Quantum Dots“ and “Patterning and Fluorescence Tuning of Quantum Dots with Haptic-Interfaced Bubble Printing” have been featured by Nanowerk as “Bubble-printed patterning of quantum dots on plasmonic substrates.” (May 2017)

Mingsong Wang has been selected to receive a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship for 2017-2018. 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 (March 2017).

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been featured by X-MOL资讯 and X-MOL 化学平台 as “纳米复合材料实现光波导器件的全光学重复可擦写“. (March 2017)

Dr. Zheng and the group have been selected to receive Young Investigator Award from Office of Naval Research (February 2017). ME News; TMI News

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been featured in a Wall Street Daily article “Nanotechnology: How Miniscule Science Will Save Mankind” by Editorial Director. (January 2017)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “New Nanomaterial Allows Rewritable Optical Components” by Materials Today. (December 2016)

Our work “Bubble-Pen Lithography” has been featured as “Nanotechnology in a Bubble” in Book “Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny” by Michael Berger (2016).

Our work “Moire Nanosphere Lithography” has been featured as “Novel Nanosphere Lithography to Fabricate Tunable Plasmonic Metasurfaces” in Book “Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny” by Michael Berger (2016).

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “Military Nano Drones Controlled Remotely Behind Enemy Lines, Made Possible by Nanophotonics-Based Rewritable Chips” by Science World Report. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “Novel Nanomaterial Enables Rewritable Optical Circuits” in IEEE Spectrum. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “Novel Nanotech Material Could Pay Huge Dividends” by R&D Magazine. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “A new nanomaterial chip has been made that can erase information by merely a flashing light” by Pakistanclip. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “新型材料的发现使可擦除、可复写光学芯片的制造成为可能” by DSTI.net. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “新型材料的发现使可擦除、可复写光学芯片的制造成为可能” by 网易. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “James Bond-style erasable, rewritable chips in the offing” by Indianexpress. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “New material could lead to erasable, rewriteable optical chips” by Scientific Computing. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “New material could lead to erasable and rewriteable optical chips” by Nanowerk. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “New material could lead to erasable and rewriteable optical chips” by Phys.org. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “Engineers erase and rewrite data on optical chips” in Newelectronics. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “Newly Developed Nanomaterial can be Stepping Stone for Rewritable Nanophotonic Circuits” in Azonano. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “New material could lead to erasable and rewriteable optical chips” by ScienceDaily. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been reported as “James Bond-style erasable, rewritable chips in the offing” by Tribuneindia. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been highlighted as “New material could lead to erasable and rewriteable optical chips” by Eurekalert. (December 2016)

Our work “Photoswitchable Rabi Splitting in Hybrid Plasmon-Waveguide Modes” has been highlighted as “Optically rewritable integrated nanophotonics with hybrid plasmon-waveguide modes” by D4Sci. (December 2016)

Dr. Zheng has been selected as one of the Chemical Communications Emerging Investigators (November 2016).

Our work “Tunable Graphene Metasurfaces with Gradient Features by Self-assembly-based Moiré Nanosphere Lithography” has been featured as an inside cover of Advanced Optical Materials. (November 2016)