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Renyu Zheng presenting in front of a screen at the UW faculty lecture

December 2, 2025

University of Washington

Renyu Zheng wins UW Chemical Engineering Faculty Lecture Award

October 9, 2024

University of Washington

David Baker Shares the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis and John Jumper For His Groundbreaking Work in Computational Protein Design

July 2, 2024

U.S. Department of Defense

Oleg Gang Selected as an Vannevar Bush Fellow by the U.S. Department of Defense

February 1, 2023

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Wendy Shaw Named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

October 12, 2022

University of Washington

CSSAS PI Sergei Kalinin Wins 2022 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Experimental Work in Nanotechnology

June 13, 2022

UW Clean Energy Institute

CSSAS Deputy Director Jim De Yoreo on Exploring New Materials Through Collaboration

Gold periodic table element square with symbol Au and atomic number 79.

March 29, 2022

University of Washington

CSSAS Researchers Create a Sea of Nano-Sized Gold Stars

February 11, 2022

University of Washington

Jim De Yoreo and Sam Jenekhe Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

July 16, 2021
UW News

University of Washington CSSAS PI Brandi Cossairt Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences

In the act of self-assembly, molecules containing multiple components (represented here by yellow and blue) arrange themselves into ordered structures.

March 1, 2021

Frontiers in Energy Research

(Self)-Assembling Tomorrow: Designing Materials That Build Themselves

October 19, 2020

CSSAS Press Release

Fatima Davila to Serve as Liaison to BES Early Career Network

By using charged mineral surfaces and aqueous electrolytes to manipulate interactions over many length scales, a single type of protein is driven to self-assemble into multiple, diverse lattices with novel properties

September 25, 2020

PNNL Highlight

Making a Protein "Multitool" for Assembly: Changing the Environment of Proteins Directs Structure Assembly

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July 30, 2020

Clean Energy Institute

PNNL-UW Materials Science Pioneer James De Yoreo Receives U.S. DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award

Humanoid robot analyzing complex data on a holographic digital interface.

June 19, 2019

Frontiers in Energy Research

Artificial Intelligence to Solve Important Problems in Energy and Climate Change

December 5, 2018

CSSAS Press Release

Dr. Rubul Mout Appointed to Frontiers in Energy Research Editorial Board

Four distinct microscopic images showcasing diverse nanoparticles and nanostructures.

November 4, 2024

Soft Mattter

CSSAS Team Science Makes Cover of Soft Matter

September 24, 2024

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Du and Zhang Co-Edit MRS Advances Special Issue

January 4, 2024

Chemistry of Materials

CSSAS Team Science Makes Cover of Chemistry of Materials

January 25, 2023

UW Medicine Newsroom

BBVA Foundation Awards David Baker Prestigious Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine

September 7, 2022

University of Washington

CSSAS Trainee Renyu Zheng Recognized for Outstanding Oral Presentation at Molecular Foundry's Peptoid Summit

Researchers Xiao Zhang (L) and Chun-long Chen (R) examine the products of lignin digestion by their novel biomimetic peptoid catalyst.

May 31, 2022

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Chun-Long Chen Leads Study of New Artificial Enzyme which Breaks Down Tough, Woody Lignin

March 15, 2022

Angewandte Chemie

CSSAS Team Science Makes Frontispiece of Angewandte Chemie

2021 BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 on crumpled money.

December 16, 2021

Science

David Baker Wins Science Magazine's 2021 Breakthrough of the Year Award for His Work on Protein Structure Predictions

June 15, 2021

University of Washington

Cossairt Honored as Finalist for Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists

February 26, 2021

Towards Data Science

CSSAS Researcher Maxim Ziatdinov on Rotationally Invariant Variational Autoencoders (rVAE)

Protein chessboard - an atomic force microscopy (AFM) averaged morphological image of the two-dimensional protein crystals of mutated l-rhamnulose-1-phosphate aldolase (F88/C98RhuA) on muscovite mica. It was captured by Cypher AFM in the buffer of 50 mM MgCl2 and 20 mM Tris (pH 7).

October 19, 2020

NNCI

CSSAS Researcher Shuai Zhang's Work, "Protein Chess Board in Nanoscale," Wins 2020 NNCI Image Contest

Blue gloved hands reaching, almost touching, within a bright, glowing circle.

September 18, 2020

The New Yorker

CSSAS PI David Baker's work highlighted in The New Yorker: "Scientists Advance on One of Technology's Holy Grails"

Students and researchers from Brandi Cossairt's lab in a corn field.

March 1, 2020

Frontiers in Energy Research

Tackling Energy Challenges: An Inside Look at the Approaches of Two EFRCs

An enzyme in certain species of bacteria can convert carbon dioxide to methane, which could feed your kitchen stove or car, if the produced methane is harvested properly. Credit: Rubul Mout, CSSAS EFRC, and Nathan Johnson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

March 1, 2019

Frontiers in Energy Research

Energy is Encoded in the Genes: Scientists Discover an Enzyme that Converts Carbon Dioxide into Methane

November 9, 2018

CSSAS Press Release

Dr. Janani Sampath to Serve as Liaison to BES Early Career Network

October 16, 2024

American Physical Society

Sergei Kalinin Selected for 2025 APS David Adler Lectureship Award

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September 18, 2024

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Two-dimensional Silk Research Featured by Science Advances

March 31, 2023

Materials Research Society

David Ginger Named Materials Research Society Fellow

October 17, 2022

University of Washington

CSSAS Receives $12.6M Funding Renewal from the U.S. Department of Energy

July 15, 2022

UW News

University of Washington CSSAS PI Jim Pfaendtner Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences

New research followed proteins as they rotated on a mineral surface, identifying unexpected motion

April 26, 2022

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

CSSAS Researchers Discover Additional Ways Proteins Rotate

March 4, 2022

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

CSSAS Postdoc Jingshan Du Named to Early Career Editorial Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Journal

Graphic art content entry entitled Chatelier’s Principle, is a 30” x 30” mixed media piece composed of felted wool and silk on linen with acrylic on gessoed felt.

October 18, 2021

CSSAS Press Release

CSSAS Graduate Student Amy Stegmann Wins Second Place in BES ECN Science in the Time of COVID Graphic Art Contest

Image for introduction to joint (rotationally-invariant) VAEs

March 11, 2021

Towards Data Science

Sergei Kalinin and Maxim Ziatdinov on Joint (Rotationally- Invariant) Variational Autoencoders j(r)VAE)

February 22, 2021

Chemical & Engineering News

Samson A. Jenekhe's Pioneering Polymer Work Paved the Way for Commercial OLEDS

October 7, 2020

APS Physics

CSSAS PI Samson A. Jenekhe Recipient of 2021 APS Polymer Physics Prize

September 10, 2020

Institute for Protein Design

David Baker Awarded 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

An atomic force microscopy image of a DHR10-micaX lattice. The field of view is an 800 nm square (200 nm square in the lower left inset). At upper right is a Fourier transform of the main image.

August 14, 2019

Physics Today

Tuning Organic-Inorganic Interactions: Modular Lattice of Programmable Proteins is First Step Toward Hybrid Materials

January 1, 2019

UW Information Technology

CSSAS Researcher Sarah Alamdari on Using Hyak, UW's Supercomputer, to Support Her Research

Statue looking up at bright sun in blue sky with clouds.

August 3, 2018

UW News

UW, PNNL to Host Energy Research Center Focusing on Bio-Inspired Design and Assembly

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