Research
Ying Diao’s research pursues the fundamental understanding and control of multiscale molecular assembly processes to achieve manufacturing of electronical materials, energy devices, and therapeutic processes. Her goal is to use solution printing to make advanced materials such as electronic papers, solar cells, and medicines. She is working to decipher how molecules self-assemble into functional materials to develop device methods to control the molecular assembly process. Additionally, in her research, she repurposed a failed cancer drug into a new type of organic semiconductor for use in transistors and chemical sensors. Visit her research group’s website for more information.
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
Campus Affiliations
- Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Professor, Materials Research Lab
- Professor, Chemistry
- Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
- Theme Lead, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Select Honors and Recognitions
- NSF CAREER Award, 2019
- Sloan Research Fellowship, 2018
- 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2018
- NASA Early Career Faculty Award, 2020
- MIT Technology Review names Diao to ‘Innovators Under 35’ list, 2016