Qian Chen
- Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
(217) 300-1137
102 Materials Research Lab
Aims to understand how tiny machineries of materials and living cells move, interact, assemble and transform in a fluid medium to perform their functions.
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Selected Articles in Journals
- Qian Chen, Jonathan Whitmer, Shan Jiang, Sung Chul Bae, Erik Luijten, Steve Granick, “Supracolloidal reaction kinetics of Janus spheres,” Science 331, 199-202 (2011).
- Qian Chen, Sung Chul Bae, Steve Granick, “Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice,” Nature 469, 381-384 (2011).
- Xiaoming Mao, Qian Chen, Steve Granick, “Entropy favours open colloidal lattices,” Nature Materials 12, 217-222 (2013).
- Juyeong Kim, Matthew R. Jones, Zihao Ou, Qian Chen, “In Situ Electron Microscopy Imaging and Quantitative Structural Modulation of Nanoparticle Superlattices,” ACS Nano 10, 9801-9808 (2016).
- Binbin Luo, John W. Smith, Zihao Ou, Qian Chen, "Quantifying the self-assembly behavior of anisotropic nanoparticles using liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy," Accounts of Chemical Research 50, 1125-1133 (2017).
- Juyeong Kim, Xiaohui Song, Fei Ji, Binbin Luo, Nicole F. Ice, Qipeng Liu, Qiao Zhang, Qian Chen, "Polymorphic assembly from beveled gold triangular nanoprisms," Nano Letters 17, 3270-3275 (2017).
- Binbin Luo, John W. Smith, Zixuan Wu, Juyeong Kim, Zihao Ou, Qian Chen, "Polymerization-like co-assembly of silver nanoplates and patchy spheres," ACS Nano 11, 7626-7633 (2017).
- Juyeong Kim, Zihao Ou, Matthew R. Jones, Xiaohui Song, Qian Chen, "Imaging the polymerization of multivalent nanoparticles in solution," Nature Communications, 8, 761 (2017).
- Xiaohui Song, John W. Smith, Juyeong Kim, Nestor J. Zaluzec, Wenxiang Chen, Hyosung An, Jordan M. Dennison, David G. Cahill, Matthew A. Kulzick, and Qian Chen*, “Unraveling the morphology–function relationships of polyamide membranes using quantitative electron tomography,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11 (8), 8517–8526 (2019)
- Binbin Luo, Ahyoung Kim, John W. Smith, Zihao Ou, Zixuan Wu, Juyeong Kim and Qian Chen*, “Hierarchical self-assembly of 3D lattices from polydisperse anisometric colloid,” Nature Communications, 10, 1815 (2019).
- Wenxiang Chen, Xun Zhan, Binbin Luo, Zihao Ou, Pei-Chieh Shih, Lehan Yao, Saran Pidaparthy, Arghya Patra, Hyosung An, Paul V. Braun, Ryan M. Stephens, Hong Yang, Jian-Min Zuo*, and Qian Chen*, “Effects of particle size on Mg2+ ion intercalation into λ-MnO2 cathode materials”, Nano Letters 19, 4712 (2019).
- Ahyoung Kim, Shan Zhou, Lehan Yao, Stacey Ni, Binbin Luo, Charles E Sing, and Qian Chen*, “Tip Patched Nanoprisms from Formation of Ligand Islands,” Journal of American Chemical Society 141, 11796‒11800 (2019).
- Zihao Ou,¶ Ziwei Wang,¶ Binbin Luo, Erik Luijten*, and Qian Chen*, “Kinetic pathways of crystallization at the nanoscale,” Nature Materials 19, 450 (2020)
Honors
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, Solid State and Materials Chemistry program, National Science Foundation (Nov, 2017)
- ACS Petroleum Research Foundation Doctoral New Researcher Award (Oct, 2017)
- Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award, Biophysics Program, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Oct, 2016)
- The SN 10 List of Scientists Making the Next Big Discoveries; Science News Magazine (one of the 10 early- and mid-career scientists, age 40 and under, selected among all science disciplines) (Sep, 2016)
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), United Kingdom (to a distinguished professor from an overseas academic centre of excellence for up to one month in UK university to build capacity and promote collaborations) (Aug, 2016)
- Forbes 30 under 30 Science List, Forbes Magazine (Jan, 2016)
- Victor LaMer Award, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, American Chemical Society (Jun, 2015)
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, Extraordinary Prize (5 worldwide), Ministry of Education, P.R. China (2012)
- Miller Research Fellowship, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California Berkeley (Jul, 2012-May, 2015)
- Warren Yee Memorial Fellowship, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (to the most promising overseas Chinese students) (2009)