Research Overview
CEI researchers are pushing the boundaries of light and matter to enable future clean energy technologies. Advances in fields like two-dimensional materials, nanoscale and quantum properties, imaging and spectroscopy will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s discoveries and devices.
Featured Researchers
Washington Research Foundation Innovation Assistant Professor of Clean Energy and Physics
Recent News
Q&A: Dianne Xiao, Douglas Reed explain the materials behind the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]October 10, 2025 | By Sarah McQuate, UW News[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="12px"][vc_column_text]The...
Jiun-Haw Chu selected as Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]October 3, 2025 | UW College of Arts & Sciences[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space...
Jiaqi Cai wins 2025 Graduate Medal in the Natural Sciences
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]July 1, 2025 | By Nancy Joseph, UW College of...
Sam Jenekhe wins 2025 de Gennes Prize
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]June 26, 2025 | By Diana Knight, UW Chemistry[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="12px"][vc_column_text]The...
Recent Publications
- Symmetry breaking in twisted double bilayer graphene (Nature Physics, September 2020) | UW News | Phys.org
- Inorganic nanopropeller puts a spin on catalysis (Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2019)
- A proposal towards a scalable single-photon source to create a quantum simulator (ACS Photonics, November 2019)
- Switching 2D magnetic states via pressure tuning of layer stacking (Nature Materials, October 2019)
- Controlling three-dimensional optical fields via inverse Mie scattering (Science Advances, October 2019)
- First-ever visualizations of electrical gating effects on electronic structure could lead to longer-lasting devices (Nature, July 2019) | UW News