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12/23/2016
Prof. Chao Wang's work on self-healing artificial muscle was published on Advanced Materials!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201605099/abstract

Highlighted by UCR Today, Yahoo News, Phys Org, and many more.

05/23/2016
Prof. Chao Wang was interviewed by The Week on self-healing artificial muscle, check it out here:
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http://theweek.com/articles/619669/next-robots-synthetic-muscle

04/28/2016
Prof. Chao Wang was interviewed by Press-Enterprise on next generation self-healing materials, check it out here:
http://www.pe.com/articles/wang-801264-material-self.html?page=1


04/26/2016
Prof. Chao Wang was interviewed by Huffington Post on the self-healing artificial muscle, check it out here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientists-create-artificial-self-healing-muscle_us_5717d62ce4b024dae4f0da4e


04/18/2016
Prof. Wang's co-first author paper on ultra-stretchable self-healing polymer was published on Nature Chemistry. The work is also featured by Stanford News, IEEE Spectrum, UCR Today. Congratulations to Prof. Wang!

04/09/2016
Dai-Scott Nguyen joined Wang Polymer Research Group as a undergraduate student. Welcome Scott!

03/28/2016
The Wang Polymer research group attended the MRS conference at Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Chao Wang gave two talks on the recent progress of the group on self-healing materials and energy storage. Dr. Yue Cao presented a poster.

03/18/2016

Nor (Liza) Rais joined Wang Polymer Research Group as a graduate student. Welcome Liza!

02/23/2016
Prof. Chao Wang was interviewed by Communications of ACM to talk about self-healing, check it out here:
http://cacm.acm.org/news/198708-heal-thyself/fulltext


01/27/2016

Dr. Haiping Wu joined Wang Polymer Research Group as a postdoc. Welcome Haiping!
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10/15/2015
The first experiment was carried out in Wang Polymer Research Lab at UCR! Congratulations to Prof. Wang and Dr. Cao!

08/07/2015
Dr. Chao Wang is interviewed by The Atlantic on 'The Body Electric'. See more at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/08/electronic-artificial-skin-research/399674/

06/25/2015
Wang Research Group are now hiring graduate students and visiting students!  Join the exciting of developing next generation polymers for energy and electronic!

06/20/2015

Dr. Chao Wang will become an assistant professor at Department of Chemistry at University of California Riverside soon this summer! Congratulations Chao!

Before Joining UCR

12/3/2014
Dr. Chao Wang is awarded the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting Postdoc Award for "for innovative research developing self-healing electronic materials and utilizing the self-healing concept to achieve high-performance, long lifetime electronic and energy storage devices"! Thank MRS, the Jiang Family Foundation and MTI Corporation! 

The MRS Awards Program strives to acknowledge outstanding contributors to the progress of materials research and to recognize their exciting and profound accomplishments.  Up to four awards are given each year. More about the MRS Postdoc Award, see here.

08/28/2014
Dr. Chao Wang is awarded The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) Distinguished Student Lecturer Award. Thank GCEP!

05/23/2014
Dr. Chao Wang won the Members’ Choice Award of Stanford Polymer Collective Poster Symposium!

12/26/2013
Dr. Chao Wang is National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China! Only 100 awards are given nationally each year.
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