Science as Art

◄ Landscape by Self-Assembling Microspheres

The Yin group
Department of Chemistry
University of California
Chemical Sciences Rm 366
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel: 951-827-3429
Fax: 951-827-4713

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.

News / History:

• ☺☺☺June 2009, Tri Pham's Youtube video "What is the Color of Silver?" has been 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 will receive an all-expense-paid trip to the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington D.C. (August 16, 2009) to present his video to a national audience!

 

• ☺☺☺May 2009, Yadong has been named a 2009 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). 

 

• ☺☺☺December 2008, Zhenda and Jianping 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.

   

• June 2008, James Goebl joined the group from University of Notre Dame.  Lindsey Vick from University of Wisconsin-Platteville also started her summer research in the group.  

• ☺☺☺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”.

• September 2007, Zhenda Lu and Qiao Zhang joined the group.  Chunguang Li, visiting from Jilin University, also arrived.

   

• August 2007, Tierui's general method for transferring hydrophobic nanocrystals into water has been reported in Nano Lett, and highlighted in Science.

   

• May 2007, Jianping's paper on magnetically tunable photonic crystals was accepted for publication in Angew. Chem. as a VIP (very important paper) and cover article. 

   

• March 2007, the group's first paper by Jianping on magnetite nanocrystal clusters  was accepted for publication in Angew. Chem.

   

• February 2007, Dr. Tierui Zhang joined the group from University of Arkansas.

   

• September 2006, Ms. Yongxing Hu joined the group as the first graduate student.

   

• August 2006, Dr. Jianping Ge joined the group from Tsinghua University. 

   

• July 2006, Dr. Yadong Yin drove down from Berkeley to UCR, and started the group from two completely empty rooms.