Aug 2026 Congratulations to our SURF students, Ruhaan Batta and Melody Chen, both winning Distinction Honor for their excellent research. Also congratulations to Junyuan's great mentorship! 

Aug 2026 The first independent research work from our group, led by PhD student Junyuan, is published in Nano Letters and Featured as a Cover! 

Jul 2024 Light-driven C-H activation by 2D materials (Nature Communications 2024) was featured by many media as How Lasers and 2D Materials Could Solve the World's Plastic Problem, see UT News; EurekAlert!; Phys.org;  Optics & Photonics News; Anthropocene Magazine; Earth. com; The Science Times; Electro Optics; MSN; YouTube; SciTechDaily; Mirage News; Environmental News Network; DOE Twitter; etc. 

Feb 2023 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; etc. 

Dec 2022 Dr. Li contributed to the ACS Diversity & Inclusion Cover Art Series and shared his journey as a first-generation student in Nano Letters.

Jul 2022 Optical nanomotors on solid substrates (ACS Nano 2022) was featured by many media as Tiny Motors Take a Big Step Forward and First Solid-State Light-Driven Nanomotors, see UT News; Optics & Photonics News; EurekAlert!; Mirage News; Phys.org; SciTech Daily; Today UK News; Tech Times;  Smart 2.0; The Daily Texan; Tech Briefs; etc.

Jun 2021 Opto-refrigerative tweezers (Science Advances 2021) was featured by a number of media as a Novel Technology to Overcome Dangers of Heat in Optical Tweezers, see UT News; Eurekalert!; Nanowerk; Optics.org; AzoOptics; SciTechDaily; Photonics.com; Physics World; Explica; etc. Also featured in UT TMI Newsletter and 2022 Texas Mechanical Engineer