Department of Chemistry

 Michael Janner, a high school student from Redlands East Valley High School, recently published his research results in Nano Letters, a top tier journal in the field of nanoscience.  He worked as a summer intern in Prof. Yadong Yin’s group since 2010.  In this paper, he shared the co-first authorship with a graduate student, Qiao Zhang due to his significant contribution to the work.  Together they discovered the self-assembly of novel two-dimensional photonic labyrinth structures under magnetic fields and further developed an effective method to solidify the structures and enable detailed characterization.  This work is believed to provide a platform for fabricating novel materials and devices with complex morphologies and spatial configurations.
(Link to the paper: Click Here)

Michael is an outstanding high school student.  His first research project in Prof. Yin’s group was focused on the fabrication and magnetic manipulation of nanoscale mirrors.  He not only won the 1st place in the 2011 California State Science Fair Competition (Chemistry category), but also competed in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and won four awards.  In 2012, Michael worked on the magnetic self-assembly of photonic nanostructures and won again the 1st place in California State Science Fair, the second place in Chemistry at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair and received special awards from NASA, United Technologies Corporation, U.S. Air Force, the ASM Materials Education Foundation, the U.S. Metric Association, and the Southern California Biomedical Council.