News
2023
Oct Jingang was selected as one of the 2023 Mechanical Engineering Rising Stars, an annual workshop hosted by UC Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT.
Feb Ultrafast optical nanoscopy (Nano Letters 2023) was featured by Berkeley Engineering as "an innovative tool for measuring electron dynamics in semiconductors". Also see DOE Office of Science; DOE Twitter; Phys.org; Nanowerk; Photonics.com; American Ceramic Society; The Science Times; Tech Explorist; Nanotechnology Now; Nanotechnology World; etc.
2022
Dec Jingang contributed to the ACS Diversity & Inclusion Cover Art Series and shared his journey as a first-generation student in Nano Letters.
Sep Jingang was featured in two interviews with AZoNano for his work on "Optical Nanomotor Drives Future Innovations in Tiny Power Sources" and "Opto-refrigerative tweezers".
Aug Jingang received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. (UT TMI News)
Aug Tunable strong light-matter coupling (Advanced Materials 2022) was featured as a Frontispiece.
Jul Jingang was featured in an interview with MIT Technology Review China for his innovation in new optical manipulation techniques. Also see Sohu; 163.com; Zhihu; WeChat; Sina; Weibo; Tencent; Zaker; Jasve; etc.
Jul Optical nanomotors on solid substrates (ACS Nano 2022) was featured by UT Research; CSE News; TMI News; EurekAlert!; Nanowerk; Mirage News; Phys.org; True Virtual News; Whats New; Swift Telecast; SciTech Daily; Today UK News; Verve Times; Head Topics; Industry Update; StatNano; News Break; Knowledia; My Droll; Samachar Central; TechCodex; Madrid; Inovacao Tecnologica; Noticias de la Ciencia; etc. as Tiny Motors Take a Big Step Forward. Also in
Tech Times: First-Ever Solid-State Optical Nanomotor is Here To Power Various Things
Optics & Photonics News: First Solid-State Light-Driven Nanomotors
Photonics.com: Light-Powered Nanomotors Perform as Ultrasmall Energy Converters
Smart 2.0: Optical nanomotor goes solid state
The Daily Texan: UT researchers create tiny, light-driven motor
Tech Briefs: Tiny Motors to Power a Network of Nanomachines
Jan Heat-mediated optical manipulation (Chemical Reviews 2022) was selected as a Supplementary Journal Cover Article.
Jan Opto-refrigerative tweezers (Science Advances 2021) was featured in UT TMI Newsletter and 2022 Texas Mechanical Engineer
2021
Dec Jingang successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations to Dr. Li!
Dec Jingang received the MRS Graduate Student Award from Materials Research Society. (MRS website; UT TMI News)
Jun Opto-refrigerative tweezers (Science Advances 2021) was featured by a number of media, including:
UT News: Optical Tweezer Technology Tweaked to Overcome Dangers of Heat;
Eurekalert!: Optical Tweezer Technology Tweaked to Overcome Dangers of Heat;
Nanowerk: Opto-refrigerative tweezers can dynamically manipulate objects at a laser-generated cold spot;
Optics.org: Laser cooling takes the heat out of optical tweezers;
AzoOptics: New Optical Tweezers Prevent Overheating Problems;
SciTechDaily: Optical Tweezer Technology Breakthrough Overcomes Dangers of Heat ;
Photonics.com: Opto-Refrigerative Tweezers Overcome a Hot Problem;
Physics World: Opto-refrigerative tweezers prevent trapped particles from overheating;
Explica: Towards a revolution in optical tweezers.
Mar Optothermally assembled nanostructures (Accounts of Materials Research 2021) was selected as a Supplementary Journal Cover Article.
Jan Tunable chiral metamaterials (Nano Letters 2021) was selected as a Front Cover Article and featured by Nanowerk as
Nanowerk: Tunable chiral optics suitable for on-chip devices.
2020
Mar Optical manipulation on solid substrates (Nature Communications 2019) was selected as Top 50 Physics Articles in Nature Communications.
Feb Jingang has been selected to receive a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship for 2020-2021, one of the highest honors for graduate students at UT Austin.
2019
Dec Optical manipulation on solid substrates (Nature Communications 2019) was featured by Nanowerk as
Nanowerk: The first optical nanomanipulators on solid substrates.
Dec Jingang has been awarded the 2019 Ben Streetman Prize, an annual university-wide award for outstanding research in electronic and photonic materials and devices. (UT TMI News)
2018
Aug Opto-thermophoretic manipulation (ACS Applied Nano Materials 2018) was featured as a Front Cover Article.
Aug Opto-thermoplasmonic nanolithography (Advanced Functional Materials 2018) was selected as a Back Cover Article and featured by Nanowerk as