
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
Recent Publications
Kafle, P., Huang, S., Park, K. S., Zhang, F., Yu, H., Kasprzak, C. E., Kim, H., Schroeder, C. M., Van Der Zande, A. M., & Diao, Y. (Accepted/In press). Role of Interfacial Interactions in the Graphene-Directed Assembly of Monolayer Conjugated Polymers. Langmuir. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00570
Li, S., Jira, E. R., Angello, N. H., Li, J., Yu, H., Moore, J. S., Diao, Y., Burke, M. D., & Schroeder, C. M. (2022). Using automated synthesis to understand the role of side chains on molecular charge transport. Nature communications, 13(1), [2102]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29796-2
Pan, T., Dutta, S., Kamble, Y., Patel, B. B., Wade, M. A., Rogers, S. A., Diao, Y., Guironnet, D., & Sing, C. E. (2022). Materials Design of Highly Branched Bottlebrush Polymers at the Intersection of Modeling, Synthesis, Processing, and Characterization. Chemistry of Materials, 34(5), 1990-2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c04030
Patel, B. B., Walsh, D. J., Patel, K., Kim, D. H., Kwok, J. J., Guironnet, D., & Diao, Y. (2022). Rapid, interface-driven domain orientation in bottlebrush diblock copolymer films during thermal annealing. Soft Matter, 18(8), 1666-1677. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1sm01634b
Campillo-Alvarado, G., Liu, R. J., Davies, D. W., & Diao, Y. (2021). Enhancing Single-Crystal Dichroism of an Asymmetric Azo Chromophore by Perfluorophenyl Embraces and Boron Coordination. Crystal Growth and Design, 21(6), 3143-3147. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00114