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Fan Cui, PhD
I am a material chemist specializing in the development of nano-engineered materials. I seek hierarchical material designs and scalable synthetic strategies to address emerging challenges in energy, optoelectronics, and biomedicines.
I obtained Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Following Berkeley, I joined the Physics department at New York University as a postdoctoral scientist. Currently, I work as a senior research scientist at Fluxus Inc, developing advanced chemical assay and optofluidics to enable single molecule detection.
Find out more about my research here and a list of publications here.
Research Vision
Building hierarchical materials for a sustainable future
Today we're faced with emerging challenges to make a sustainable earth planet for our future generations: how can we harvest clean energy, convert greenhouse gases, invent smart optoelectronics, and realize all these in efficient and cost-effective ways? There is a pressing need to develop novel materials with enhanced optical, electrical, and mechanical properties.
My research aims to develop next-generation materials through multi-scale engineering of inorganic and soft matter. Specifically, I focus on developing high-throughput methods to synthesize and assemble nano/micro-scale colloidal units into functional hierarchical structures. I'm particularly interested in studying how to assemble them into ordered structures by bio-inspired methods, such as using DNA linkers. By developing 3D optical microscopy, we explore material dynamics at molecular, nanoscale, and mesoscopic length scales. Leveraging these insights, we enable materials design and synthesis for applications in energy, sensing, optoelectronics, and biological technologies.
