News & Updates

The ARTIST Lab published the third research article on Cement and Concrete Research entitled The decomposition and quantification of carbonates in cementitious materials by thermogravimetric analysis and mass spectrometry. Our second-year PhD student, Ruoxi Yang, led the experimental study. Congratulations! Ruoxi is in her third semester of PhD study. Carbon mineralization is a scalable technology for carbon storage. Quantifying carbon storage is important for carbon account

Seohyun Kim is a visiting PhD student from Seoul National University. Sumin Im is a visiting scholar from Hanyang University. They are both from South Korea.

Congratulations, Ruoxi!

Postdoctoral research fellow Tengxiao (Alec) Ji joins our group. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 2023. Prior to our group, he was postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia. Welcome!

First-year PhD student Zhenhua Zhou joins our group. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2025. Welcome!

The ARTIST Lab published the second research article on Cement and Concrete Research entitled Aluminum incorporation lowers the intrinsic mechanical properties of single-chain calcium silicate hydrate. Our first-year research assistant, Jiawei Wang, led the contribution to the experimental study in his first half year of training. This study employs high-pressure X-ray diffraction to explore the intrinsic mechanical properties of nanocrystalline single-chain calcium aluminosi

The ARTIST Lab has officially made its debut in the scientific community. First year PhD student Ruoxi Yang published her first 1st-author author journal article in her first semester on Cement and Concrete Research . Congratulation! In an amusing twist of fate, our study focuses on the mineral artinite—a serendipitous nod to our lab's acronym. It's fascinating how artinite, a hydrated magnesium carbonate mineral, shares its name with our ARTIST Lab. This coincidence adds a p

For many reasons, our lab has been re-named to Advanced Research of Technologies of Infrastructure Systems for Transformation (ARTIST)...

Our group has moved from Livermore, the San Francisco Bay Area to Ann Arbor, Michigan! No more Californian sunshine luxury taxes... It is...