Nov. 2025
Cheng-Wei’s ACR in now online!

Nov. 2025
Congratulations to Cheng-Wei for a paper being published on Accounts of Chemical Research! It’s a long journey for our research on aniline oligomers. Shout out to Jessica and Xueying and Ric!
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00592

May 2025
Cheng-Wei served as a panel host for UCLA Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase!

April 2025
It’s great to meet Ethan and Gabbie from Upland High.
As a mentor, I am looking forward to their excellent presentation at the incoming International Science and Engineering Fair at Ohio!

Jan 2025
Congratulations to Joo Wan and Michelle for paper being accepted in ACS Materials Letters! It’s also Cheng-Wei’s first paper as the corresponding author.
This paper will be published in the special issue “Emerging Investigator in Materials Science”
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01963?articleRef=test

Jan 2025
Congratulations to Tara’s paper, entitled “High-Energy Aqueous Sodium-Ion Batteries Using Water-in-Salt Electrolytes and 3D Structured Electrodes”, being accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!

Nov 2024

Congratulations to Cheng-Wei and Ric for being nominees for the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Award and Postdoctoral Mentoring Award!

August 2024
Big congrats to Ric who just hits 100,000 in citation!

August 2024
Congrats to Tara’s paper, entitled “Ultra-fast Sodium-Ion Batteries Based on Vanadium Oxide and Laser-Scribed Graphene Electrodes”, being accepted on Chemistry of Materials!

June 2024
Dr. Yuto, Joowan, and Michelle are graduated! Congratulations to them!

June 2024
Misaki finished her study at UCLA, and returned to Japan. Wishing her success on her new journey!

May 2024
Cheng-Wei and Ric published an article, A reflection on ‘highly dispersible polypyrrole nanospheres for advanced nanocomposite ultrafiltration membranes, on Materials Horizons!

May 2024
Cheng-Wei gave a talk as a guest speaker at Nanoscience Teacher Training Workshop at CNSI (UCLA).

April 2024
Helen’s work on vanadium oxide based Li-ion battery is now accepted by Nanoscale Horizons! Congrats to Helen and Tara!

March 2024
Ric, Cheng-Wei, Tara, Joowan, and Michelle went to Gahr High school for scientific outreach!

March 2024
Yuto’s work in collaboration with Professor Yuzhang Li is now published.

Feb. 2024
Congrats to Yuto whose work, A Rapid, Scalable Laser-Scribing Process to Prepare Si/Graphene Composites for Lithium-Ion Batteries, is published on Small.

Feb. 2024
Chenxiang’s work, entitled Design of efficient, reliable, and wide-band filter electrochemical capacitors via matching positive with negative electrodes, is accepted by Joule!

Dec., 2023
Congratulations to Cheng-Wei’s paper, entitled “Interactions Between Liquid Ammonia and Graphitic Materials”, being published on RSC Applied Interfaces.

May, 2023
Xueying’s paper on elucidating the degradation mechanism of conducting polymer based supercapacitor is now published on Macromolecular Rapid Comm.

April, 2023
Congratulations to Xueying’s paper, entitled “Molecular Engineering of Hierarchical Conducting Polymer Composites for Highly Stable Supercapacitors”, being accepted by Nano Letters!

11/29/2022
Ric is one of the Highly Cited Researcher according to Clarivate!

11/12/2022
Kaner Lab at TopGolf!

11/09/2022
Congratulations to Ric for being nominated for Postdoc Mentor Award!

05/14/2022
Dr. Cheng-Wei Lin received the Postdoctoral Research Award from the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA!

05/08/2022
Lab members have attended MRS Conference at Hawaii!

04/24/2022
Our manuscript entitled “Effective Liquid Metal Seeds for Silver Nanovines” is now accepted! Thanks to Prof. Michael Yeung, Dr. Logan, Prof. Georgiy Akopov, Prof Reza Mohammadi, Ric, and Paul!

04/07/2022
It’s always good to catch up with Prof. Vincent and Prof. Yang!

03/15/2022
Cheng-Wei attends ACS Conference at San Diego.

02/22/2022
Our work entitled “Ultrapermeable nanofiltration membranes  with tunable selectivity fabricated with polyaniline nanofibers” is now accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry A. A great job done by Dr. Chenhao Ji!

01/12/2022
Our work entitled “Thin-film composite membranes with a hybrid dimensional titania interlayer for ultrapermeable nanofiltration” is just accepted by Nano Letters. Congratulations to Dr. Shuangmei Xue and the co-workers!

09/18/2021
An excellent work led by Prof. Shao is now published on Materials Horizons, with the title of “Crystalline Tetra-aniline with Chloride Interactions Towards a Biocompatible Supercapacitors”. Congrats to Xiaoling and the co-workers!

06/23/2021
It’s always my pleasure to meet my former advisor, Prof. Jiaxing Huang!

06/04/2021
Our work based on aniline tetramers for supercapacitor, 3D Graphene Network with Covalently Grafted Aniline Tetramer for Ultralong-Life Supercapacitors”, is now accepted by Advanced Functional Materials.

06/03/2021
A great work done by Ailun Huang is now published on Advanced Energy Materials! “Facile Fabrication of Multivalent VOx/Graphene Nanocomposite Electrodes for High-Energy-Density Symmetric Supercapacitors”

04/22/2021
Our comprehensive study on polyaniline based water filtration membranes, “Conducting Polyaniline for Antifouling Ultrafiltration Membranes: Solutions and Challenges”, is now online (Nano Letters). Thanks to Dr. Shuangmei Xue and Dr. Chenhao Ji!