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
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
Diao, Y. (2024). Gentler, nanoscale ion implantation. Nature Nanotechnology, 19(8), 1079-1080. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01659-5