Lab News

  • (12/2024) “Name Dropping | UC Santa Cruz scientists, engineers earn spot on Highly Cited Researchers list“
  • (11/2024) Prof. Chen is a 2024 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
  • (08/2024) Dingjie Pan receives the 2024 John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry.
  • (05/2024) Sarah Yu receives an Undergraduate Research in Science & Technology Award.
  • (11/2023) Prof. Chen is a 2023 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
  • (10/2023) A collaborative project with Prof Yu Zhang from the ECE Department is supported by the UC CITRIS program.
  • (06/2023) Qiming Liu receives a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.
  • (06/2023) The ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Virtual Special Issue on Sustainable Electrochemical Energy Technologies (Héctor D. Abruña Festschrift) is now live. 
  • (05/2023) Bingzhe Yu receives a scholarship from the Northern California Chapter of the American Vacuum Society (NCCAVS).
  • (04/2023) Bingzhe Yu is selected to receive the 2023 John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry.
  • (04/2023) Prof. Chen is listed in the AD Scientific Index 2023.
  • (04/2023) Prof. Chen is listed in the 2023 Edition of the Top 1000 Scientists in both fields of Chemistry and Materials Science by Research.com.
  • (11/2022) Prof. Chen is a 2022 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
  • (04/2022) Qiming Liu receives the Joseph W. Richards Summer Fellowship from the Electrochemical Society.
  • (04/2022) Qiming Liu is awarded a one-quarter Dissertation Year Fellowship.
  • (04/2022) Prof. Chen is listed in the 2022 Edition of the Top 1000 Scientists in both fields of Chemistry and Materials Science by Research.com.
  • (03/2022) Prof. Chen is listed in the the Top 100,000 scientists in the world by Globalauthorid.com.
  • (03/2022) Qiming Liu receives a 2022 IPMI Student Award.
  • (03/2022) Davida Simpson receives a UC Doctoral Diversity Initiative Fellowship in Spring 2022.
  • (12/2021) Qiming Liu receives a grant-in-aid from Sigma Xi to support his research on electrocatalysis.
  • (11/2021) Prof. Chen is selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • (11/2021) Prof. Chen is a 2021 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
  • (06/2021) Qiming Liu receives an Honorable Mention of the 2021 IPMI Student Awards.
  • (04/2021) Zahra Azar is awarded the 2021 ACS physical chemistry undergraduate award.
  • (04/2021) Forrest Nichols is awarded a one-quarter Dissertation Year Fellowship.
  • (01/2021) Prof. Chen is included in Stanford University’s list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world.
  • (12/2020) Prof. Ahmad Shaabani, a recent visiting professor, is elected a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences.
  • (11/2020) Prof. Chen is a 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher.
  • (09/2020) Forrest Nichols wins the 2020 John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry.
  • (08/2020) Bingzhang Lu receives a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.
  • (06/2019) Bingzhang Lu receives a $1000 grant-in-aid from Sigma Xi to support his research on electrocatalysis.
  • (05/2019) Yi Peng is an Honorable Mention of the 2019 ECS San Francisco Section Daniel Cubicciotti Student Award. This is a third in the group!
  • (04/2019) Bingzhang Lu receives a 2019-2020 Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship.
  • (04/2019) Bingzhang Lu receives an Honorable Mention of 2019 IPMI Student Award competition.
  • (03/2019) Jasmine Liu, a UC LEADS scholar, received an honorable mention for her research presentation in the 2019 UC LEADS Symposium.
  • (02/2019) UCSC publishes a press release for Bingzhang’s Nature Communications paper. Check it out!
  • (02/2019) Yi Peng receives a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.
  • (11/2018) Prof. Chen is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher for 2018 by Clarivate Analytics
  • Kiana Coleman, an undergraduate assistant is featured on the department’s Undergraduate Student Spotlight.
  • (06/2018) Yi Peng receives the Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship in 2018-2019.
  • (06/2018) Carolina Wahl receives the Undergarduate Research in Science and Technology Award from UCSC. Last year, Wanzhang Pan was also selected as an awardee.
  • (04/2018) Yi Peng receives the ECS Joseph W. Richards Summer Fellowship for 2018.
  • (04/2018) Yi Peng receives an Honorable Mention of the 2018 IPMI Student Awards.
  • (04/2018) Bingzhang Lu wins the 2018 John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry.
  • (01/2018) Check out Yi’s work on carbon nitride-graphene oxide nanocomposites embedded with ruthenium ions for HER electrocatalysis that is highlighted by a UCSC Press Release and ChemEurope.
  • John Diniz is selected to receive a 2017 Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award to support his research at SLAC.
  • Limei Chen is selected as an honorable mention recipient of the 2017 ECS Cubicciotti Award competition. This is the second time a student in the Chen lab received such an honor. In 2012, Xiongwu Kang also received an honorable mention.
  • Yi Peng wins a 2017-2018 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship. He will spend 4 months in Paris working in Professor Pierre Millet’s laboratory in Universite Paris-Sud 11.
  • Yi Peng wins the 2017 John and Grace Wang Award in Physical Chemistry.
  • Forrest Nichols wins the 2017 Koret Scholarship.
  • Limei Chen is awarded a 2016-2017 Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship and Lewis Bonny is selected to receive the Tony Fink Memorial Student Award for his outstanding research achievements.
  • Peiguang just wins the 2015 Gemini Industries Graduate Student Award by the International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI). This is the second time a Chen student won a student award from IPMI. In 2006, a former student, Sulolit Pradhan, also won the student award. Congrats!