08/18/2025: Tianhong and Zhisen joined our lab as PhD students. Welcome!
05/15/2025: Our AFM has been installed. Thank you, Artem, for your help! Looking forward to our laser.
04/26/2025: The NANO-BME Research Expo was successfully held, and our graduate students did an excellent job presenting their research.
04/23/2025: Our optical table has arrived and been installed. We greatly appreciate the help from my colleagues Dr. Smith, Dr. Scott, Dr. Wang, Rick, my wife Dr. Liu, and students Junming, Mingyang, Xin and Himal. Thank you so much!
04/17/2025: Dr. Pengyu Chen was invited to give a talk at our Nano-BME seminar. It was a great talk, and both students and colleagues were highly engaged. Thank you, Dr. Chen, for visiting us! So happy to have you on our campus.
04/14-04/15/2025: Preparing our new lab. Sad to say goodbye to our old TEM, but the good news is we got a brand-new TEM on campus!
04/08/2025: Dr. Chen gave an invited talk at the 2025 MRS spring meeting in Seattle
04/02/2025: Our 2D material transfer stage has been installed. Excited to start fabricating samples!
09/29/2024: Hiking @Crazy Horse, it always reminds me of the Chinese fable “The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains”—except this one is real!
09/20/2024: M-Day picnic@M-hill
09/14/2024: Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival – BBQ@Canyon Lake Park
09/06/2024: Nano-BME Open House, it is fun to explain the structural color of blueberries to the students. Nature is truly remarkable and people who discover its beauty are inspiring!
08/19/2024: Dr. Chen officially joined South Dakota Mines