04/2025
Dr. Zhou gave an invited talk at the Dakota State University.
04/2025
Our group traveled to 2025 MRS Spring meeting in Seattle. Dr. Zhou organized a symposium on Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy. Zinnia delivered an oral presentation on pyroelectric materials imaging. Junming and Joshua presented posters on the research projects and Junming won the Best Poster Award in the symposium.
03/2025
Dr. Zhou delivered an invited talk at the 2025 ACS Spring meeting in San Diego.
02/2025
Welcome Emily to the group!
12/2024
Welcome Aryan and Ky Duyen to the group!
09/2024
Welcome Zinnia to the group!
09/2024
Our group received a DOE award on Building EPSCoR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships! Thanks DOE for supporting our research and our great partners at the Ames National Lab. See the news here.
08/2024
Welcome Junming to the group!
08/2024
Our group is part of the team receiving an ExpandQISE Track 2 grant! Thanks NSF for supporting our research. See the news here.
08/2024
Our group received an NSF MRI award on acquiring a new scanning transmission electron microscope! Thanks NSF for supporting our research, and the great efforts from all the co-investigators. See the news here.
07/2024
Our group gave a demo experiment on making nanoparticles to 8th-12th graders in the Camp BioMed.
06/2024
Our group received a South Dakota Board of Regents Competitive Research Grant (CRG) award! Congratulations to the group and thanks SDBOR for the support! See the news here.
05/2024
Joshua won the Undergraduate RESPEC Research Grant! Congratulations, Joshua!
03/2024
Joshua won the Outstanding Undergraduate BME Student Award. Congratulations, Joshua!
02/2024
Joshua got accepted to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program at the Ames National Laboratory (AMES) for the Summer 2024 Term. Congratulations, Joshua!
11/2023
Our group received an ACS PRF award! Congratulations to the group and thanks ACS for the support! See the news here.
08/2023
Welcome Joshua to the group!
06/2023
Our group received an NSF ERI award! Congratulations to the group and thanks NSF for the support! See the news here.
05/2023
Dr. Zhou received the Nelson Research Grant Award.
04/2023
Kory got into the final round of the Undergraduate RESPEC Research Grant competition! Well done, Kory!
03/2023
Natnael received the Ivanhoe Excellence Fellowship for the Academic Year 2023-2024! Congratulations Natnael!
03/2023
Dr. Zhou delivered an invited talk at the 2023 ACS Spring meeting in honor of Dr. Younan Xia's ACS National Award for Creative Innovation!
12/2022
Welcome Kory to the group!
11/2022
Welcome Natnael to the group!
11/2022
Our work on "Chiral assemblies of pinwheel superlattices on substrates" is published in Nature! Read the news highlighted by School of Mines here and Illinois News Bureau here.
10/2022
An OFDA Microgrant has been awarded to the team of Dr. Zhou, Dr. Steve Smith, and Ms. Vanessa Kee. Congratulations! Visit the link for more details about the microgrant.
08/2022
Dr. Zhou officially started the position at South Dakota School of Mines.