BING RESEARCH GROUP: MATERIALS INNOVATION &MANUFACTURING (MIM)
2019/09
Our paper “High Temperature Shockwave Stabilized Single Atoms, Nature nanotechnology, 2019, 14, 851-857.” is reported in the following media: SciTechDaily, UIC today, PHYS ORG, news wise, abstream, and many others.
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2019/05
Our paper “A Radiative Cooling Structural Material, (Science, 2019, 364, 760-763)” is reported in the following media: MIT Technology Review, C&en Chemical & Engineering News, PHYSORG, EXPRESS TECH, TECH TIMES, CGTN, XINGHUANET, Chemistry Views, abs NEWS, INSIDE SCIENCE, news wise, LONG ROOM, and many others.
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2019/11
Dr. Hu is leading a workshop on advanced wood nanotechnology at University of Maryland College Park. For details, please visit: https://advwoodworkshop.weebly.com.
2019/05
Our paper “A Printed, Recyclable, Ultra-Strong, and Ultra-Tough Graphite Structural Material.” is reported in the following media: materialstoday, and many others.
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2019/04
Our paper “Bioinspired solar-heated carbon absorbent for efficient clean-up of highly viscous crude oil” is reported in the ADVANCED SCIENCE NEWS.
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2019/03
Our paper “Dense, Self‐Formed Char Layer Enables a Fire‐Retardant Wood Structural Material.” is reported in the Chemistry World.
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2019/03
Our paper “Cellulose Ionic Conductors with High Differential Thermal Voltage for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting. Nature Materials 2019, 18, 608–613.” is reported in the following media: CHESS CORNELL HIGH ENERGY SYNCHROTRON SOURCE, ElectronicDesign, materialstoday, MY HEART CARE, BEFORE IT’S NEWS, and and many others.
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2018/04
Our paper “Scalable and Sustainable Approach toward Highly Compressible, Anisotropic, Lamellar Carbon Sponge” is reported in the following media: EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, Chemical & Engineering News, The Nanowerk News, PHYS.ORG, Technology Review, INews, ORAZIO.IT, WISSENSCHARFT, R&D magazine, SCIENMAG, UMDRIGHTNOW and many others.
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EurekAlert, “Durable wood 'sponges' act as green sensors of mechanical strain”
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ScienceDaily, “Durable wood 'sponges' act as green sensors of mechanical strain”
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Nanowerk, “Durable wood carbon sponge could be the future of wearable sensors, pollutant treatment”
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PHYS.ORG, “Durable wood 'sponges' act as green sensors of mechanical strain”
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ORAZIO.IT, “Durable wood 'sponges' act as green sensors of mechanical strain”
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SCIENMAG, “Durable wood ‘sponges’ act as green sensors of mechanical strain”
2018/03
Our paper “Carbothermal Shock Synthesis of High-Entropy-Alloy Nanoparticles. (Science 2018, 359, 1489–1494.)” is selected as the cover image for Science, introduced by a special perspective and the editor, and highlighted in the following media:
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Phys.org
Scientists Mix The Unmixable To Create 'Shocking' Nanoparticles -
Materials Today:
Multiple elements ‘shocked’ to form single nanoparticle -
Science Daily:
Diverse metals mix it up in novel nanoparticles -
Scientists mix the unmixable to create 'shocking' nanoparticles
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National Science Foundation:
Nanoscale alloys from elements thought to be incapable of mixing -
EurekAlert!
Scientists mix the unmixable to create 'shocking' nanoparticles -
Nanoscale alloys from elements thought to be incapable of mixing
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Nanowerk
Scientists mix the unmixable to create 'shocking' nanoparticles -
Newswise
‘Shocking’ Process Could Accelerate Important Chemical Reactions for Industry -
Nanoscale Alloys From Elements Thought to Be Incapable of Mixing
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AZO Nano New Technology for Combining Multiple Metals into Uniformly Mixed Nanoparticles
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UMD news: Scientists Mix the Unmixable to Create 'Shocking' Nanoparticles
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UMD right now: Multi-Institutional Team of Scientists Mix the Unmixable to Create ‘Shocking’ Nanoparticles
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Nanoscale alloys from elements thought to be incapable of mixing
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American Labratory High-Entropy-Alloy Nanoparticles Could be Used as Chemical Catalysts
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Futurity Crazy heat produces metal mixes not found in nature
2018/02
Our paper “Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material” is reported in the following media: BNN, VOA news, MSN, MIT Technology Review, New York Post, Yahoo! News, CBS Denver, Chemical & Engineering News, Science Daily, Xinhua Net, Word News, China. Org. Cn, Eurekalert!, Discover Magazine, Science News, Scientific American, Chemistry Views, UMD Right Now, and many others.
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BNN, “A chemical treatment that makes wood as strong as steel”
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MIT Technology Review, “US scientists develop technique to make wood as strong as steel”
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New York Post, “Scientists invent ‘super wood’ that could replace steel”
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Yahoo! News, “Super wood could replace steel in cars, airplanes”
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CBS Denver, “‘Super Wood’ Could Replace Steel, Engineers Say”
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Chemical & Engineering News, “Process makes wood stronger than steel”
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Xinhua Net, “Scientists create super wood that could replace steel”
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China. Org. Cn, “Scientists create super wood that could replace steel”
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Discover Magazine, “This Wood Won’t Float, But It’s Stronger Than Steel”
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Science News, “Superdense wood is lightweight, but strong as steel”
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Scientific American, “Stronger Than Steel, Able to Stop a Speeding Bullet—It’s Super Wood!”
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UMD Right Now, “UMD Researchers Create Super Wood Stronger Than Most Metals”
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Techxplore, “New process could make wood as strong as titanium alloys but lighter and cheaper”
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Materials Today, “New process makes wood stronger than many titanium alloys”
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Science Alert, “Scientists Have Developed a Way to Make Wood as Strong as Steel”
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Long Room News, “Superdense wood is lightweight, but strong as steel”
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Unfox News, “Superdense wood is lightweight, but strong as steel”
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The Sun, “Scientists invent SUPER WOOD that could replace steel”
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Homeland Security News Wire, “Super wood stronger than most metals”
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The Inquisitr, “Scientists Invent ‘Super Wood’ That Is Strong As Steel And Can Stop Bullets, Too”
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Digital Trends, “Scientists have figured out how to make wood even stronger than steel”
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Scientific India, “Super wood that stronger than Most Metals”
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Alphr, “Scientists have just made wood that is as strong as steel”
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Architecture and Design, “New super-strong wood could revolutionise building”
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The Chemical Engineer, “New densified wood is as strong as steel”
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Clean Technica, “Compostable Cars Could Be Made With New “Superman” Wood”
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BER, “Scientists create ‘super wood’ that is stronger and lighter than steel”
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Daijiworld, “Super wood could replace steel in cars, airplanes”
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Business Standard, “Super wood could replace steel in cars, airplanes”
2018/02
Our paper "Thermoelectric properties and performance of flexible reduced graphene oxide films up to 3,000 K Nature Energy” highlighted in the following media:
2018/01
Our research on desalination “Holzfilter macht Salzwasser zu Trinkwasser” is reported in sciencecentral.org.
2018/02
2018/01
Our papers on “Heating boosts graphene’s conductivity” is reported in materialstoday.
2017/11
Our paper “Three-Dimensional Printed Thermal Regulation Textiles” is reported in the following media: PHYSORG, 3ders.org, Gears of biz, nanotechweb, 3dgrenzenlos Germany, and many others.
2017/10
Our papers on solar steam generation “Highly Flexible and Efficient Solar Steam Generation Device”, and “Plasmonic Wood for High-Efficiency Solar Steam Generation”, “Tree-Inspired Design for High-Efficiency Water Extraction” are reported in the following media: Nanowerk, ChemistryViews, the ChemicalEngineer, ScienceDaily and many others.
2017/05
Our paper “3D-Printed, All-in-One Evaporator for High-Efficiency Solar Steam Generation under 1 Sun Illumination” is highlighted in Nature.
2017/09
Our paper “Inverted Battery Design as Ion Generator for Interfacing with Biosystems” is reported in TERP magazine.
2017/04
Our paper “All-wood, low tortuosity, aqueous, biodegradable supercapacitors with ultra-high capacitance” is reported in the following media: Frontiers in Energy Research, VOA news.
2017/04
Our paper “High-capacity, low-tortuosity, and channel-guided lithium metal anode” is reported in the following media: VOA news, Science & Technology News, and many others.
2017/11
Our paper “Three-Dimensional Printed Thermal Regulation Textiles” is reported in the following media: PHYSORG, 3ders.org, Gears of biz, nanotechweb, 3dgrenzenlos Germany, etc
2017/10
Our papers on solar steam generation “Highly Flexible and Efficient Solar Steam Generation Device”, and “Plasmonic Wood for High-Efficiency Solar Steam Generation”, “Tree-Inspired Design for High-Efficiency Water Extraction” are reported in the following media: Nanowerk, ChemistryViews, the ChemicalEngineer, ScienceDaily and many others.
2017/08
Our paper “Inverted battery design as ion generator for interfacing with biosystems” is reported in the following media: Eedisignlt News, Chemical & Engineering News, The Indian Express, Nanowerk News, Newswise, Controlled Environment Magzine, EETimes and many others.
2016/08
Our paper “Wood Composite as an Energy Efficient Building Material: Guided Sunlight Transmittance and Effective Thermal Insulation” is reported in the following media: Business Insider, ScienceAlert, CNN, Value Walk, Science Daily, Science Newsline, NanoWerk, PhysOrg, Science Blog.com, Yahoo Finance, and many others.
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Business Insider, Scientists made see-through wood that is cooler than glass
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ScienceAlert, Scientists have made super-strong, transparent windows out of wood
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Science Daily, Transparent wood windows are cooler than glass: Study
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NanoWerk, Windows made from transparent wood are cooler than glass
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Science Blog.com, Transparent wood for windows is cooler than glass
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Yahoo Finance, Scientists made see-through wooden windows that are cooler than glass
2016/05
Our paper “Three-Dimensional Printable High-Temperature and High-Rate Heaters” is reported in the following media: nanowerk, 3dprint, xinhuanet, 3dprintingindustry, 3ders and many others.
2016/08
Our paper “Highly Anisotropic, Highly Transparent Wood Composites” is reported in the following media: CNN News, Discover Magazine, The New York Times, ScienceDaily, and many others.
2017/04
Our paper “Mesoporous, Three-Dimensional Wood Membrane Decorated with Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Water Treatment” is reported in the following media: Phys.org, VOA news, newswise, and many others.
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VOA news, “Scientists Find Ways to Use Wood in Electronic Devices”
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Phys.org, “Wood filter removes toxic dye from water”
2016/01
Phys.Org, You'll never be-leaf what makes up this battery, Maryland NanoCenter.
2015/07
Our paper “Self-Powered Human-Interactive Transparent Nanopaper Systems” is reported in the following media: Self-Power Paper Sensor, Nanowerk, C&E News, Nature Nanotechnology, and many others, The most popular Nanowerk Spotlight articles in 2015.
2015/07
Our paper “Anomalous scaling law of strength and toughness of cellulose nanopaper” is published in PNAS and is highlighted in the front page of www.umd.edu and receives other media coverage, including The Economics Times, R&D Magazine, Phys.org, etc.
2014/10
Our paper “Approaching the Limits of Transparency and Conductivity in Graphitic Materials through Lithium Intercalation” was highlighted in DOE EFRC website entitled “A Clear Future for Graphitic Electrodes” and reported by Nanowerk.
2013/06
Our paper "Tin Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries Using Natural Wood Fibers" is the most read paper in Nano Lett and is reported in the following media: Forbes, NPR (Live), Science Daily, ChinaNews, The Times of India and many others in various languages.
2014/01
Journal publication “Novel Nanostructured Paper with Ultrahigh Transparency and Ultrahigh Haze for Solar Cells” was reported by Nature Photonics, highlighted in RSC Chemistry World and PhysOrg.
2014/09
Our paper“Lightweight, Conductive Hollow Fibers from Nature as Sustainable Electrode Materials for Microbial Energy Harvesting”was highlighted by Materials Today entitled “Kapok offers new concept in microbial fuel cells”.
2013/02
Our paper “Highly Transparent and Flexible Nanopaper Transistors” is reported by Chemical and Engineering News and nannowerk.
2013/04
Our paper “Highly Transparent and Flexible Nanopaper Transistors” is reported by Chemical and Engineering News and nannowerk
2011/12
Our paper “Enhancing the Supercapacitor Performance of Graphene/MnO2 Nanostructured Electrodes by Conductive Wrapping” was reported in MIT Technology Review and Nanotechweb.
2011
Our paper “Solution-Processed Graphene/MnO2 Nanostructured Textiles for High-Performance Electrochemical Capacitors” is reported as News in Nature.
2013/04
Our paper “Transparent Nanopaper with Tailored Optical Properties” is highlighted in Royal Society of Chemistry in Chemistry World.
2011/12
Our paper “Transparent Lithium-Ion Batteries” was reported in Nature News, Stanford News, Scientific American, MIT Tech. Review, NPR, ScienceNet China, ZDNet Korea, and on YouTube.
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Nature, “Transparent battery powers the way to translucent devices”
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Stanford News, “Stanford transparent batteries: seeing straight through to the future?”
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Scientific American, “Transparent Lithium-Ion Batteries Could Lead to Translucent Devices”
- NPR, “See-Through Battery Could Lead to See-Through Phones”
- Youtube, “Researchers Create Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery”
- ScienceNet China
2010
Our paper “High Speed Water Sterilization Using One-Dimensional Nanostructures” was reported in MIT Tech. Review, Stanford News and ABC News and many others - Top 10 technology in 2010, ranked by Scientific American.
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Stanford News, “High-speed filter uses electrified nanostructures to purify water at low cost”
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MIT Technology Review, “Salty Solution for Energy Generation”, 2011
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Internano, “High Speed Water Sterilization Using One-Dimensional Nanostructures”
- Nanowerk, “Nanotechnology membrane for high-speed water sterilization”
- Nanotechweb, “Electrified nano filter promises to cut costs for clean drinking water”
2010
Our paper “Thin, Flexible Secondary Li- Ion Paper Batteries” was highlighted in C&E news and featured in ACSNano Podcast.
2009
Our paper “Infrared Transparent Carbon Nanotube Thin Films, Applied Physics Letters” was reported on Physorg, Laserfocusworld, and nanoforum. It was the most downloaded paper in Applied Physics Letters.
2009
Our paper “Highly Conductive Paper for Energy-Storage Devices” was reported in BBC, CBS, MIT Technology Review, Onearth, MRS Bulletin, and Stanford News. It was the most downloaded paper in Nano. Lett. and ACS journals.
2007
Hu and Unidym Inc. were highlighted by New York Times
2010
Our paper “Stretchable, Porous, and Conductive Energy Textiles” was reported in CBS, BBC, MIT Technology Review, Onearth, MRS Bulletin, Stanford News. It was the most downloaded paper in Nano. Lett and ACS journals.
2008
Our paper “A Tunable Photosensor” was highlighted in Nature Chemistry.