Contact Information
213 Roger Adams Lab, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Materials Research Laboratory
Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Theme Lead, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Kang, H., Vo, J. N., Huan, X., Diao, Y., Guironnet, D., & Sing, C. E. (2026). Implicit Side-Chain Model for Melt Bottlebrush Block Copolymer Assembly. Macromolecules, 59(6), 3906-3921. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5c03484
Vo, J. N., Kang, H., Huan, X., Diao, Y., Sing, C. E., & Guironnet, D. (2026). Tuning the Architecture of High-Density Bottlebrush Block Copolymers to Control Their Photonic Properties. Macromolecules, 59(20), 11358-11366. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6c01001
Wu, J. L., Friday, D. M., Hwang, C., Yi, S., Torres-Flores, T. C., Burke, M. D., Diao, Y., Schroeder, C. M., & Jackson, N. E. (2026). Democratizing machine learning in chemistry with community-engaged test sets. Digital Discovery, 5(1), 304-309. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5dd00424a
Yi, J., Xie, F., Moller, J. Q., Xu, Z., Zhao, S., Diao, Y., Leakey, A. D. B., Moore, J. S., & Chen, Y. S. (2026). Ultrasound-driven mechanophore activation in living plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(10), Article e2533066123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2533066123
Ella Elangovan, K., Confer, M. P., Zhang, R., Wang, S., Moore, J. S., Bhargava, R., & Diao, Y. (2025). Unraveling Quantitative Sensing Mechanism and Predictive Molecular Metrics for High-Performance OFET Amine Sensors. Advanced Functional Materials, 36(30), Article e26787. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202526787