News
Jan 17, 2019
New Thermoelectric Material Delivers Record Performance.
Nov 18th, 2018
Dr. Ren received Humboldt prize.
Sept 5th, 2018
Texas Center for Superconductivity Announces New Leadership.
July 5th, 2018
Researchers Upend Conventional Wisdom on Thermal Conductivity
June 29th, 2018
Novel hybrid catalyst to split water discovered.
Sept 18th, 2017
New Approach Boosts Performance in Thermoelectric Materials.
Mar 22nd, 2017
New journal of "Materials Today Physics" launched.
Nov 18th, 2016
Congratulations on Ran He, Hao Zhang, and Jing Shuai successfully finished their Ph.D. thesis defenses.
Nov 14th, 2016
Researchers report new thermoelectric material with high power factors.
July 19th, 2016
UH Physicist Joins Project to Develop New High Thermal Conducting Material.
July 6th, 2016
Researchers Report Record Performance for Bismuth-based Zintl Material.
June 27th, 2016
UH Researchers Discover a New Method to Boost Oil Recovery.
Mar 3rd, 2015
UH Researchers Discover New Material to Produce Clean Energy.
May 15th, 2014
New Thermoelectric Materials: MgAgSb, MgAg0.97Sb0.99, and MgAg0.965Ni0.005Sb0.99.
Feb 7th, 2014
Media coverage on the of Flexible Transparent Conductor.
Jan 15th, 2014
The O’Donnell Awards video regarding Prof. Ren was released. (For Prof. Ren's segment, please click here)
Dec 30th, 2013
Prof. Ren was featured by KUHF radio station.
Dec 22nd, 2013
Prof. Ren was featured by Houston Chronicle.
Dec 15th, 2013
In collaboration with Prof. Jiming Bao at UH, cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanoparticles fabricated by ball milling is proved to be capable of splitting water with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 5%, published in the recent issue of Nature Nanotechnology (please click here) and highlighted in Phys.org (please click here)
Dec 10th, 2013
Prof. Ren is named the 2014 Recipient of the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas (TAMEST), http://www.tamest.org.
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Dec 10th, 2013
Prof. Ren is elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, http://www.academyofinventors.org.
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Oct. 22, 2013