This starts at the chemical level: scientists can design a material’s structure to define how it reacts, binds, or transforms under specific conditions. Surface functionalization adds further ...

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi with members of his lab: (L-R) Designated Assistant Professor Mandy Hei Man Leung, Distinguished Professor Yusuke Yamauchi, Associate Professor and lab co-leader Yusuke ...

Nanomaterials are engineered structures so tiny that they measure in billionths of a meter. At that scale, materials often behave differently than they do in bulk form. These unique properties — such ...

Intentional nanomaterials are deliberately engineered to perform specific functions, such as drug delivery or enhanced durability in composites. Incidental nanomaterials are produced unintentionally, ...