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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.
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I obtained Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Physics department at New York University.
​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?
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My research aims to explore materials-level solutions through a combination of nano-engineering, soft matter physics, and advanced characterization techniques. Specifically, I focus on developing high-throughput methods to synthesize 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 advanced optical microscopy, we explore the dynamics and interactions between DNA-coated colloidal particles. Leveraging on these insights we enable materials design and synthesis for applications in energy, sensing, optoelectronics, and biological technologies.
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