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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Chemistry

Ying Diao

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Contact Information

600 S. Mathews Avenue
213 Roger Adams Lab, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801

Research Areas

Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Professor of Chemistry

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

Jeon, S., Kamble, Y., Xu, Z., Khasbaatar, A., Hwang, C., Lee, J. H., Shi, J., Rogers, S., Guironnet, D., & Diao, Y. (Accepted/In press). Large modulation of the bottlebrush diblock copolymer morphology and structural color through solvent selectivity. Soft Matter. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm01495b

Zhang, R., Chen, H., Wang, T., Kobera, L., He, L., Huang, Y., Ding, J., Zhang, B., Khasbaatar, A., Nanayakkara, S., Zheng, J., Chen, W., Diao, Y., Abbrent, S., Brus, J., Coffey, A. H., Zhu, C., Liu, H., Lu, X., ... Gao, F. (2025). Equally high efficiencies of organic solar cells processed from different solvents reveal key factors for morphology control. Nature Energy, 10(1), 124-134. Article 4949. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01678-5

Angello, N. H., Friday, D. M., Hwang, C., Yi, S., Cheng, A. H., Torres-Flores, T. C., Jira, E. R., Wang, W., Aspuru-Guzik, A., Burke, M. D., Schroeder, C. M., Diao, Y., & Jackson, N. E. (2024). Closed-loop transfer enables artificial intelligence to yield chemical knowledge. Nature, 633(8029), 351-358. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07892-1

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

Davies, D. W., Jeon, S., Graziano, G., Patel, B. B., Liu, W., Strzalka, J., Zhu, X., & Diao, Y. (2024). Direct Laser Writing Crystal Polymorphs of Organic Semiconductors for Phase Change Electronics. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(32), 42546-42554. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c01362

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Chemistry

505 South Mathews Avenue

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-5071

Email: chemistry@illinois.edu

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