Archive for October, 2022

Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons poster prizes at MH-22

The 2nd International Conference on Materials for Humanity (MH-22) took place online and in person from 19–21 September 2022 at National University of Singapore, Singapore. Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons were delighted to support student poster prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate the two winners!

Chen Jiusi

 

Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Poster Prize

Chen Jiusi (National University of Singapore)
Poster Title: “Thermo-responsive Hydrogel with Efficient Spontaneous Water Release for Atmospheric Water Harvesting”

Chen Jiusi is a MSc student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Professor Xue Junmin. She got her B. Eng. in Functional Materials from Donghua University. In her undergraduate studies, she gained experience with biomedical textile materials and technology such as antibacterial hydrogels and transcatheter textile-based artificial aortic valves. Before coming to NUS, she worked as a research assistant at Innovation Centre of Textile Science, DHU. Her current research focuses on thermo-responsive hydrogels for atmospheric water harvesting and cooling. She is looking forward to pursuing a PhD in relevant fields.

Stener Lie

 

Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Poster Prize

Stener Lie (Nanyang Technological University)
Poster Title: “Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells with >13% Efficiency and 27% Transperancy Using Plasmonic Au Nanorods”

Stener Lie is a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Lydia Helena Wong. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (2015) and Ph.D. (2020) in Materials Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His recent research focuses on the fabrication and characterization of novel materials for optoelectronic applications, such as emerging chalcogenides for solar cells or solar water splitting, semi-transparent perovskite solar cells, and p-type transparent conducting materials. Prior to his current work, he worked on improving the performance of kesterite solar cells by defect engineering, specifically through doping and alloying methods.

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Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series – Huiyuan Zhu

Introducing the Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our first Emerging Investigator Dr Huiyuan Zhu (Virginia Tech, USA)!

Since the launch of Nanoscale Horizons, the journal has had a clear vision to publish exceptionally high-quality work whilst acting as a resource to researchers working at all career levels. We continue to be impressed by the quality of the research published and at the same time are looking for new ways of recognising and promoting the outstanding authors behind articles published in the journal.

This year we are launching an Emerging Investigator Series to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal. We will regularly select a recently published Communication article and publish an interview-style Editorial article featuring the corresponding author. We hope that the series will also benefit the nanoscience community by highlighting the exciting work being done by its early-career members. More details about the Emerging Investigator Series can be found in this editorial.

We are excited to share our first Emerging Investigator, Dr Huiyuan Zhu (Virginia Tech, USA)!

Photo of Huiyuan Zhu.

 

Dr Huiyuan Zhu received her BS degree in chemistry from the University of Science and Technology in China (2009), and her PhD from Brown University (2014). From 2014 to 2018, she was one of the inaugural Liane B. Russell Fellows and then a staff scientist in the Nanomaterials Chemistry Group, Chemical Sciences Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She has been an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University since 2018. In August 2022, she moved to the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of Chemistry. Her research interests focus on tailoring multifunctional nanostructures for catalysis, energy conversion, and chemical transformation. She has received the 2022 NSF CAREER award. She is also a recipient of the 2020 Jeffress Trust award, the 2020 Ralph E Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, the 2020 Doctoral New Investigator Award of the ACS Petroleum Research Foundation, and recognized as the 2020 Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator and in the 2021 Class of Influential Researchers from Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Read our interview with Huiyuan here

Congratulations to Dr Huiyuan Zhu for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below.

Graphical abstract image for Heterostructured Bi–Cu2S nanocrystals for efficient CO2 electroreduction to formate.

Heterostructured Bi–Cu2S nanocrystals for efficient CO2 electroreduction to formate
Xue Han, Tianyou Mou, Shikai Liu, Mengxia Ji, Qiang Gao, Qian He, Hongliang Xin and Huiyuan Zhu
Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00661D

 

We hope you enjoy reading our interview and featured article and are looking forward to sharing our future Emerging Investigators with you!

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

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