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Announcements, awards, papers, and lab milestones.
Ryan and Visoth win major presentation awards!
December 16, 2025
Ryan Berry and Visoth Lim won Gold and Silver Presentation Prizes, respectively, at the InfoSyEnergy International Forum on Energy & Informatics in Phuket, Thailand in Dec. 2025! Awards were presented by Ihara-sensei from Institute Science Tokyo, Director of the InfoSyEnergy Consortium. Congratulations!!!!
Kai Uyeda joins our group!
December 2025
Kai Uyeda from Occidental College joins our group to work on nitride semiconductors and metasurfaces in collaboration with SSLEEC. Welcome Kai!!!!
New Paper on Tau Protein Assembly in ACS Electrochemistry
November 2025
Congratulations to Eloise Masquelier for her recent paper in ACS Electrochemistry on electrochemical triggering and assembly of Tau protein that is responsible for Alzheimer's disease.
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Luis Blanco joins our group!
October 2025
Luis Blanco, an NSF GRFP fellow and new Mechanical Engineering PhD student, has joined our group! He is co-advised with Prof. Sumita Pennathur in ME and will be working on combining optical sensing with microfluidic platforms. Welcome Luis!!!
Yin-Chen Lin awarded travel grant to AIChE meeting
October 2025
Yin-Chen is going to the annual AIChE meeting to present her work on reflectin protein electrochemistry.
Atlas Yang wins Oustanding Senior Award in Chemical Engineering
June 2025
Atlas was selected as Outstanding Senior in Chemical Engineering for 2025 based on highest scholatic performance in the department. Atlas is going on to graduate studies at MIT in the fall. Congratulations!!!
Professor Gordon selected as Outstanding ChE Faculty by Graduating Seniors
June 2025
Professor Gordon was selected by the class of 2025 as the recipient of the Outstanding Chemical Engineering Faculty Award. This is the eighth time that graduating seniors have honored Gordon with the recognition.
Yin-Chen's paper on Electrochemically Driven Optical Dynamics of Reflectin Protein Films appears in Advanced Materials
February 2025
In this work, we demonstrate electrochemically reversible triggering and condensation of reflectin protein thin films with novel in situ diagnostics inclucing electrochemical ellipsometry, surfcce plasmon resonance, and cicrular dichroism. This work deepens our understanding of biophysical processes governing cephalopod coloration but also paves the way for bio-inspired materials and devices that seamlessly integrate biological principles with synthetic systems to bridge the biotic-abiotic gap.
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