Contact Information
213 Roger Adams Lab, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Professor, Materials Research Lab
Associate Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Theme Lead, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Burke, M. D., Denmark, S. E., Diao, Y., Han, J., Switzky, R., & Zhao, H. (2024). Molecule Maker Lab Institute: Accelerating, advancing, and democratizing molecular innovation. AI Magazine, 45(1), 117-123. https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12154
Diao, Y. (Accepted/In press). Gentler, nanoscale ion implantation. Nature Nanotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01659-5
Jeon, S., Kamble, Y. L., Kang, H., Shi, J., Wade, M. A., Patel, B. B., Pan, T., Rogers, S. A., Sing, C. E., Guironnet, D., & Diao, Y. (2024). Direct-ink-write cross-linkable bottlebrush block copolymers for on-the-fly control of structural color. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(9), Article e2313617121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313617121
Khasbaatar, A., Jones, A. L., Fernando, P. S., Sai, H., Zhu, C., Gann, E., Reynolds, J. R., & Diao, Y. (2024). Tuning the Solution Aggregate Structure of a PM7-Based Conjugated Polymer to Enable Green Solvent Processing of Organic Solar Cells. Chemistry of Materials, 36(6), 2819-2834. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c03055
Sabury, S., Xu, Z., Saiev, S., Davies, D., Österholm, A. M., Rinehart, J. M., Mirhosseini, M., Tong, B., Kim, S., Correa-Baena, J.-P., Coropceanu, V., Jurchescu, O. D., Brédas, J.-L., Diao, Y., & Reynolds, J. R. (2024). Non-covalent planarizing interactions yield highly ordered and thermotropic liquid crystalline conjugated polymers. Materials Horizons. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MH01974H