-In collaboration with Prof. Rebecca Pinals (Stanford) and Prof. Eric Sun (MIT), we received the 2026 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) and Allen Family Philanthropies to study human brains! Read News here.

-Congratulations to Jitong Ren, who has been awarded the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship from the Grainger College of Engineering! Way to go, Jitong!

-Congratulations to Alexandra Kuhlman-Schneider, who has been selected as the DaRin Butz Foundation Research Scholar! Way to go, Alexandra!

-Congratulations to Alexandra Kuhlman-Schneider, who has been again awarded the Clifton G. Bergeron Scholarship from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering!

-Peter attended the Scialog Fellow meeting at Tuscon, AZ. Overall a great meeting!

-Congratulations to Jitong Ren, who received the A.T. Widiger Chemical Engineering Fellowship for Summer 2026!

-Peter presented at the 2026 BPS annual meeting at San Francisco, CA. Overall a great meeting!

-Congratulations to Koney Kim and Zixin Zhang, who have passed the MatSE Polymer Synthesis qualifying exam! Woohoo, one more to go!

-Congratulations to Ziming Wang, who has officially passed the ChBE qualifying exam! Way to go, Ziming!

-Peter receives a Travel Award from the Biophysical Society (BPS) for the 2026 annual meeting in San Francisco, CA!

-Peter has been named 2026 Neurobiology in Changing Ecosystems (NCE) Scialog Fellow!

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-Welcome Ziming joining us as a Ph.D. student researcher!

-Congratulations to Xuchen Ren, who has officially passed the MatSE qualifying exam (Polymer Physics, Surface and Colloids)! Way to go, Xuchen!

-In collaboration with Prof. Chris Anderson, we received an NEXUS seed grant from the MatSE department to develop polymer-based electro-optic transducers for bioelectric signal detection!

-Welcome Joie joining us as a master’s student researcher!

-We are growing! Welcome Jitong, Zixin, and Koney joining us as Ph.D. student researchers, Baker and Carolyn joining us as undergraduate student researchers!

-Peter receives an Individual Investigator Award from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust! Read News here.

-Our paper on label-free optical recording of bioelectric signals using dioxythiopene-based polymers appeared on Nature Communications. Great collaboration with the Cui Lab (Stanford), Reynolds Lab (Georgia Tech), and Müller Lab (UC Berkeley)! Read News here.

-Congratulations to Colin O’Donnell, who was accepted to the Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research (ISUR) Program ! Way to go, Colin!

-Congratulations to Alexandra Kuhlman-Schneider, who was awarded the Clifton G. Bergeron Scholarship from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering! Way to go, Alexandra!

-Peter receives the American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award! Read News here.

-Welcome Michelle and Alexandra joining us as undergraduate student researchers!

-Welcome Xuchen joining us a Ph.D. student researcher, Colin and Oliver joining us as undergraduate student researchers, and Francis joining us as a master’s student researcher!

-Zhou lab launches the website!