Lab News | Shaowei Chen Lab

(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!