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◄ Landscape by
Self-Assembling Microspheres
The Yin group
Department of Chemistry
University of California
Chemical Sciences Rm 439
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel: 951-827-3429
Fax: 951-827-4713 |
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Welcome
to the Yin Research Group at UC Riverside.
Our group focuses on the synthesis, self-assembly, and
functionalization of nanostructured materials for various
applications.
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News / History:
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April 2012, Le He and James Goebl received the 2012-13 DYP (Dissertation-Year
Programs) fellowship which supports students with
"distinguished academic records"
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May 2011,
Michael Janner, a freshman at
Redlands East Valley High School, won first place in his division
at the California State Science Fair in Sacramento for his project
"Synthesis and Manipulation of Silver and Gold Nano-Mirrors."
He also competed in the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, and won four awards.
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☺☺☺May
2011, Yongxing Hu, the first PhD in the group, received the
prestigious 2011 Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from the
Argonne National Laboratory.
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☺☺☺April
2011, Qiao Zhang won a Graduate Student Silver Award
in the 2011 Materials Research Society spring meeting for "promise
for significant future achievement in materials research".
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☺☺☺April
2011, Qiao Zhang's image "Flowers in Wonderland" won the
second place award in the "Science as Art" competition at
the 2011 MRS
Spring meeting in San Francisco.
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☺☺☺April
2011, Yongxing Hu and Qiao Zhang received the 2010 Chinese
Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese
Students Study Abroad.
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☺☺☺April
2010, Zhenda Lu and Qiao Zhang received the 2011-12 DYP (Dissertation-Year
Programs) fellowship which supports students with
"distinguished academic records".
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☺☺☺January
2011, Zhenda Lu received the
LabAutomation2011 Academic Travel Award from the Association
for Laboratory Automation.
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November, 2010,
Yongxing Hu's image "Watermelon on Pandora" was featured by
NOVA, the PBS
science series, together
with many other award-winning images of nanoscale materials.
Here!
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☺☺☺May
2010, Qiao Zhang was selected to receive a Graduate Student
Presentation Award for his oral presentation in Symposium O,
2010 MRS Spring meeting.
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☺☺☺May
2010, Yadong Yin received the DuPont Young Professor Grant.
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☺☺☺April
2010, Yongxing Hu received the 2010-11 DYP (Dissertation-Year
Programs) fellowship which is intended to support students with
"distinguished academic records".
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☺☺☺April
2010, Yongxing Hu's image "Watermelon on Pandora" won the second
place award in the "Science as Art" competition at the 2010 MRS
Spring meeting in San Francisco.
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☺☺☺February
2010, Yadong Yin received the 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant
from 3M Company.
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☺☺☺February
2010, Yadong Yin received the Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.
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☺☺☺January
2010, Yadong Yin received the Distinguished Junior Faculty Award
from the
Chinese-American Chemistry Professor Association.
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☺☺☺January
2010, Yadong Yin received the
LabAutomation2010 Academic Travel Award from the Association
for Laboratory Automation.
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☺☺☺June
2009, Tri Pham's
Youtube video "What
is the Color of Silver?" was selected as one of the
winning entries in the NSF supported "Nationwide
Undergraduate Chemistry Video Competition".
The project was carried out under Qiao's supervision. Tri
received an all-expense-paid trip to the 238th National
Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington D.C.
(August 16, 2009) and presented his video to a national audience!
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☺☺☺May
2009, Yadong Yin was named
a 2009
Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science
Advancement (RCSA).
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☺☺☺December 2008, Zhenda
Lu and
Jianping Ge created a landscape painting by self-assembling
polystyrene microspheres. They won the second place award in the
"Science as Art" competition at the MRS meeting in
Boston.
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☺☺☺May 2008, Sheba S. Plamthottam,
a junior in Upland High School, has won the 4th place in
California State Science Fair Competition in the Chemistry
category. Under Jianping's supervision, she carried out a project
entitled “Green Preparation and
Characterization of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanocrystals”.
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August 2007, Tierui
Zhang's general method for
transferring hydrophobic nanocrystals into
water was reported in Nano Lett, and highlighted in
Science.
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May 2007, Jianping Ge's paper on magnetically tunable photonic
crystals was accepted for publication in Angew. Chem. as a
VIP (very important paper) and cover article.
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March 2007, the group's first paper by Jianping Ge on
magnetite nanocrystal clusters was
accepted for publication in Angew. Chem.
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September 2006, Yongxing Hu joined the group as the first
graduate student.
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August 2006, Jianping Ge joined the group from Tsinghua
University.
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July 2006, Dr. Yadong Yin drove down from Berkeley to UCR, and
started the group from two completely empty rooms.
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