Contact Information
213 Roger Adams Lab, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Professor, Materials Research Lab
Associate Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Theme Lead, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Sabury, S., Xu, Z., Saiev, S., Davies, D., Österholm, A. M., Rinehart, J. M., Mirhosseini, M., Tong, B., Kim, S., Correa-Baena, J.-P., Coropceanu, V., Jurchescu, O. D., Brédas, J.-L., Diao, Y., & Reynolds, J. R. (2024). Non-covalent planarizing interactions yield highly ordered and thermotropic liquid crystalline conjugated polymers. Materials Horizons. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MH01974H
van den Bersselaar, B. W. L., Cattenstart, E. H. W., Elangovan, K. E., Yen-Chi, C., de Waal, B. F. M., van der Tol, J., Diao, Y., Meijer, E. W., & Vantomme, G. (2024). Trade-off between processability and device performance in donor–acceptor semiconductors revealed using discrete siloxane side chains. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, -. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC00875H
Wang, S., Edupulapati, B., Hagel, J. M., Kwok, J. J., Quebedeaux, J. C., Khasbaatar, A., Baek, J. M., Davies, D. W., Ella Elangovan, K., Wheeler, R. M., Leakey, A. D. B., Hill, C. W., Varnavas, K. A., & Diao, Y. (2024). Highly stretchable, robust, and resilient wearable electronics for remote, autonomous plant growth monitoring. Device, 2(4), Article 100322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.device.2024.100322
Awad, W. M., Davies, D. W., Kitagawa, D., Mahmoud Halabi, J., Al-Handawi, M. B., Tahir, I., Tong, F., Campillo-Alvarado, G., Shtukenberg, A. G., Alkhidir, T., Hagiwara, Y., Almehairbi, M., Lan, L., Hasebe, S., Karothu, D. P., Mohamed, S., Koshima, H., Kobatake, S., Diao, Y., ... Naumov, P. (2023). Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals. Chemical Society Reviews, 52(9), 3098-3169. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cs00481j
Davies, D. W., Graziano, G., Hwang, C., Park, S. K., Liu, W., Yuan, D., Mannsfeld, S. C. B., Wang, S. Y. G., Chen, Y. S., Gray, D. L., Zhu, X., & Diao, Y. (2023). Controlling Polymorphic Transitions in n-Type Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals by Alkyl Chain Engineering. Crystal Growth and Design, 23(2), 719-728. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00724