Sun Research Group News
August 2024 - Retrospective on text-mined synthesis recipes published in Faraday Discussions
April 2024 - Why does silicon have an indirect bandgap? - Published on Arxiv
June 2024 - Jiadong graduates and defends his PhD
April 2024 - Robotic laboratory for materials discovery published in Nature Synthesis
April 2024 - Joonsoo Kim wins the MRS Gold Medal
April 2024 - Nicholas David wins the NSF GRFP
November 2023 - Dolomite study is published as cover article of Science
Feburary 2023 - Wenhao Sun is named Dow Corning Assistant Professor
August 2022 - Wenhao Sun wins Camille and Henry Dreyfus: Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Award
July 2022 - Wenhao Sun delivers invited talk at Gordon Research Conference - Computational Materials Science and Engineering
May 2022 - Taorui Chen, Anirudh Appachar, and Chao Feng graduate!
January 2022 - Wenhao Sun wins the U-LIFT University Challenge
September 2021 - Daniel Evans and Jiadong Chen publish HEA stability paper in npj Computational Materials
May 2021 - Advanced Materials article on YBCO synthesis is highlighted in Nature Reviews Materials
April 2021 - Daniel Evans graduates UM with a Bachelors in Materials Science and Engineering. He’ll be going to UC Berkeley for his PhD. Congratulations!
January 2021 - Brandon Casey Miles and Peter Son-Bell graduate UM with Masters Degrees. Congratulations!
December 2020 - Jiadong wins the Rackham International Students Fellowship. Congratulations!
July 2020 - Wenhao Sun wins American Chemical Society PRF New Doctoral Investigator Award
June 2020 - Wenhao Sun wins Department of Energy Early Career Award
May 2020 - Wenhao Sun highlighted as Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator
January 2020 - University of Michigan: Wenhao Sun joins MSE Faculty at UMich
September 2019 - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Staff scientist Wenhao Sun wins first place at the 2019 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM
June 2019 - Phys.org: Collaborative research charts course to hundreds of new nitrides
July 2018 - SLAC News: X-Ray Experiment Confirms Theoretical Model for Making New Materials
November 2016 - LBNL News: A New Understanding of Metastability Clears Path for Next-Generation Materials
March 2015 - MIT News: Mystery solved: Why seashells’ mineral forms differently in seawater