Duan Research Group

Hetero-integrated Nanostructures and Nanodevices

News from 2020

  • Professor Duan is recognized as one of Clarivate Analytics' Highly Cited Researchers 2020
    Dec 3, 2020

    Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations.

  • UCLA-Led Research Shows Efficient and Inexpensive Fuel-Cells in Sight
    Dec 3, 2020

    A team of UCLA, Caltech and Ford Motor Company researchers has improved fuel-cell technologies to exceed the U.S. Department of Energy targets in efficiency, stability and power. No other reported fuel cells have reached all these milestones simultaneously.

  • Programmable electronics based on the reversible doping of 2-D semiconductors
    Nov 12, 2020

    Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles, have recently devised an approach that could enable the development of programmable devices made of 2-D semiconductors. This approach, presented in the paper published in Nature Electronics, leverages a superionic phase transition in silver iodide to tailor the carrier type within devices made of WSe2 via a process called switchable ionic doping.

  • Black phosphorus composite makes a better battery
    Nov 12, 2020

    A new electrode material could make it possible to construct lithium-ion batteries with a high charging rate and storage capacity. If scaled up, the anode material developed by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and colleagues in the US might be used to manufacture batteries with an energy density of more than 350 watt-hours per kilogram – enough for a typical electric vehicle (EV) to travel 600 miles on a single charge.

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