Research Program and Theme
- Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems
- Theme: Comparative and Engineered Oncology Models
Research Focus
Ying Diao’s research aims to advance fundamental understanding and control of multiscale molecular assembly processes to enable the manufacture of electronic materials, energy devices, and therapeutic systems. 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. Learn more about Ying Diao’s lab.
Other Campus Affiliations
- 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