Huge congratulations to Christina and Adam on earning their Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley! We are incredibly proud of all your hard work, perseverance, and scientific achievements. Wishing you both continued success and exciting adventures in the next chapter!
Huge congratulations to Pranav on being awarded a 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Aidan, Michael & Weichen who had their paper accepted in The Journal of the American Chemical Society today! By engineering molecular symmetry, sublattice imbalance, and the hybridization of low-energy zero modes within the GNR unit cell, we show that the balance between kinetic energy and electron–electron interactions can be rationally tuned, giving rise …
Read more “Ferromagnetic Insulator to Metal Transition in Non-Centrosymmetric Graphene Nanoribbons”
Our research program has been recognized “…for distinguished contributions at the interface of physical organic chemistry and condensed matter physics, particularly toward the exploration of strongly correlated phases and nanographene lattices…”
Congratulations to Yuyi, Fujia, Weichen, Han & Boyu who had their paper published in Nature Materials today! In this work we demonstrate how molecular engineered orbital-phase frustration within a diatomic Kagome lattice gives rise to non-trivial flat bands near the Fermi level.
Congratulations to Ziyi, Boyu, Weichen, Jingwei, Fujia, Peter, Jaiming & Xinheng who had their paper accepted in The Journal of the American Chemical Society today! While our European friends beat us to the publication (read their paper in ACIE here) we were able to show that the unusual geometry adopted by this class of conjugated …
Read more “Jahn-Teller-like Distortions in a One-Dimensional π-Conjugated Polymer”
Congratulations to Yuyi, Fujia, Weichen, Han & Boyu who had their paper accepted in Nature Materials today! In this work we demonstrate how molecular engineered orbital-phase frustration within a diatomic Kagome lattice gives rise to non-trivial flat bands near the Fermi level.
We are inviting talented graduate and undergraduate students to join our team at UC Berkeley. If you are interested in organic/inorganic materials synthesis or the discovery and characterization of exotic quantum materials we encourage you to reach out to us and contribute to our highly interdisciplinary research program.
We are especially encouraging applications from postoctoral researchers with technical expertise in scanning probe microscopy or related analytical techniques. If you are interested in the discovery and characterization of exotic covalent quantum nanomaterials that have both fundamental and technological implications, particularly strongly correlated phases, exotic magnets, and topological materials we encourage you to reach out …