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 Lab
Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Theme Lead, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Fernando, P. S., Chen, Y. C., Baek, J. M., & Diao, Y. (2025). Chiral Assemblies of π-Conjugated Molecules: Fundamentals, Processing Strategies, and Applications in (Opto)Electronics. Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 16(1), 59-91. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-100722-104224
Huan, X., Lomas, J. A., & Diao, Y. (2025). Recent progress in printable structural colors. MRS Communications, 15(4), 661-673. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-025-00741-w
Jeon, S., Kamble, Y., Xu, Z., Khasbaatar, A., Hwang, C., Lee, J. H., Shi, J., Rogers, S. A., Guironnet, D., & Diao, Y. (2025). Large modulation of the bottlebrush diblock copolymer morphology and structural color through solvent selectivity. Soft Matter, 21(12), 2217-2229. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm01495b
Jiang, K., Westbrook, R. J. E., Xia, T., Zhong, C., Lu, J., Khasbaatar, A., Liu, K., Lin, F. R., Jang, S. H., Zhang, J., Li, Y., Diao, Y., Wei, Z., Yip, H. L., Ginger, D. S., & Jen, A. K. Y. (2025). Photoluminescent delocalized excitons in donor polymers facilitate efficient charge generation for high-performance organic photovoltaics. Nature communications, 16(1), Article 3176. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58352-x
Kamble, Y. L., Shi, J., Jeon, S., Diao, Y., Rogers, S., & Guironnet, D. (2025). Synthesis and Characterization of High-Density and High Degree of Polymerization Bottlebrush Block Copolymers for Photonic Applications. Macromolecules, 58(6), 3006-3015. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.4c02692