December 1, 2022
Michele has been awarded the School of Engineering's Outstanding Student Award for the Materials Science and Engineering department from the graduating undergraduate class of Fall 2022. Congrats!
August 31, 2022
A heartfelt farewell to Luke Jackson, who will be pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at UC Riverside with funding from the Chancellor's Fellowship!
July 13, 2022
Many congrats to Will for his publication in Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis!
May 25, 2022
Congratulations to Yaneth Hernandez! Yaneth is graduating with her Master of Science in Material Sciences & Engineering from Lu Lab Group and will be moving to New York to work as a Corrosion Scientist for PLUG Power. We will miss you, and good luck with the next steps in your career!
May 19, 2022
Thank you to Dr. Will Henderson, Dr. Weilai Yu, and Gaurav Ashish Kamat for visiting UC Merced and for presenting their research to MACES, we hope to see you three again soon!
April 16, 2022
Congratulations to Michele Campbell, winner of the CCBM/MACES symposium!
April 15, 2022
Congratulations to Michael Leveille and Yaneth Hernandez, winners of the MACES GladSlam!
April 12, 2022
Congratulations to Hanlin Kuo and our collaborators from the Shaowei Chen’s lab on the publication of Materials Advances on electrocatalysis. Please check out our latest publication in the latest issue of the journal “Materials Advances”.
November 2, 2021
MACES researchers reveal a new polymer based lightweight electrode that seamlessly integrates functional species with carbon nanotubes. This new platform opens up an opportunity to harness electrochemical reactions in the 3D carbon electrode for energy storage. Their work was published in “ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces”.
October 23, 2021
Congrats to Dr. Qian. Enjoy the next steps in your career at Merck Millipore!
Bittersweet goodbye to Dr. Qian, thank you for all your support.
October 1, 2021
Luke Jackson and Michele Campbell are awarded the MACES undergraduate fellowship to do research under Professor Lu.
Congratulations to Luke and Michele!
September 29, 2021
A new way to harvest low-grade thermal energy has been revealed by MACES researchers (Jennifer Lu, Sai Ghosh, and Linda Hirst) and students (Michael Leveille and Jacqueline Bustamante). Please read our paper published in the latest issue of the journal “Advanced Science”.
September 29, 2021
Employing the distinct property of our novel polymer film enables low-grade thermal energy harvesting with higher capacity than the conventional approaches. This finding has been published in the latest issue of the journal “Advanced Science”. Congrats to Michael, Jackie and Wenxin.
June 27, 2021
A bittersweet goodbye to Jackie, she will be conducting her summer internship at Merck and then go to UCLA for her PhD studies.
May 18, 2021
Congratulations to Michael for passing his PhD Candidacy Exam!
March 10, 2021
Featured in the Academic Times, MACES-supported research has led to the development of a new type of electrode material to power devices at very low temperatures. Interspersed with nano- and micro-scale pores, the material operates without energy sucking heaters, which are a requirement for the batteries now used in space travel and other environments with extremely low temperatures. We look forward to working with NASA to investigate how this breakthrough can contribute to the human space exploration missions to Mars and Moon.
February 19, 2021
Our students, trained in our lab, were featured on Univision’s newscast.
Victoria Arias, Yaneth Hernandez and Jacqueline Bustamante, three Hispanic undergraduates, are now on their way to obtain advanced STEM degrees. They credit our lab’s research training and supportive environment helped to boost their confidence of succeeding in graduate school and beyond.
February 19, 2021
Jacqueline Bustamante, one of our undergraduate researchers, shared her experience in the UC Merced Newsroom. She discussed a memorable project she worked on with Dr. Lu and how MACES has impacted her professional career.
February 5, 2021
Our students’, Yaneth Hernandez and Jacqueline Bustamante, STEM journeys have been featured in an article on the NASA.gov website.
February 24, 2020
Congressman Jim Costa visited MACES, met students and faculty, and visited the labs. He was impressed by our accomplishments and also offered his support to us for future endeavors.
February 1, 2020
Lab specialist, Dr. Muharrem Acerce (third from left), who is now faculty at Istanbul University, spent two weeks at our lab in February working with us on an energy storage project.
December 14, 2019
Michael Leveille won first place in the MACES GradSLAM event.
August 10, 2019
National Science Foundation Lab awarded Prof. Lu a grant for creating a new type of low-energy driven sub-molecular switch.
July 8, 2019
Dinner with the product manager from Nissan Chemical Corporation.
February 28, 2019
Nissan Chemical Corporation agreed to provide support to our polymer research.
