5/2021
Undergraduate students Arden Floyed, Harrison Crawford, and Dean Nissen joined our research group in the summer for research experiences. Welcome, everyone!
4/2021
Dr. Xia has been promoted to an Associate Professor with Tenure that will take effect August 2021. Dr. Xia would like to thank his mentors, students/postdocs, colleagues, collaborators, and his family members for their support over the years!
3/2021
Our research work (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 2660) has been reported by UCF News (https://www.ucf.edu/news/new-ucf-nanotech-gives-boost-to-detection-of-cancer-and-disease/) and reported by WFTV.
1/29/2021
Our paper “Morphology-Invariant Metallic Nanoparticles with Tunable Plasmonic Properties” was published online in ACS Nano (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c06123).
1/27/2021
Our paper “Nickel–Platinum Nanoparticles as Peroxidase Mimics with a Record High Catalytic Efficiency” was published online in Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c12605).
12/5/2020
Dr. Xia has been selected for the 2020 Outstanding Chemist Award of ACS Orlando Section. Many thanks to colleagues’ great support and students’ hard work.
11/9/2020
Our Feature Article invited by Chemical Communications has been published online (https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC06575G). This article highlights our recent findings in artificial enzyme development and in-vitro diagnostics of disease biomarkers.
10/16/2020
UCF President Dr. Alexander Cartwright and First Lady Melinda Cartwright visited our lab and communicated with Dr. Xia about our research programs. Thank you both so much for supporting and caring about our research!
8/24/2020
Alexander and Tamar joins our group as PhD and Masters students, respectively. Welcome aboard.
5/19/2020
Our group receives a 3-year grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), “Simple and Sensitive Immunodetection of Animal-Derived Adulterants in Foods Using Catalytic Nanoparticles”. Dr. Xia is the PI and Dr. Rao at FSU is the co-PI on this project. Thanks for the support from National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), USDA.
5/11/2020
Benjamin Calvert, a former high-school research associate (summer 2019), will attend Georgetown University this coming fall. Congratulations, Ben. Best of luck with your new journey in DC.
4/20/2020
Our group receives a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), “A General and Robust Route to Highly Diverse Hollow Nanostructures with New Properties”. Dr. Xia is the PI and Drs. Zou and Kim are co-PIs on this project. Thanks for the support from NSF.
3/25/2020
Edwin Davidson successfully defended his Master thesis work today. Congratulations!
2/26/2020
Our research work (ACS Nano 2020, 14, 791-801) has been reported by UCF News (https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-technique-may-help-detect-cancer-earlier/) and been highlighted by many other media.
1/9/2020
Our paper “Template Regeneration in Galvanic Replacement: A Route to Highly Diverse Hollow Nanostructures” was accepted for publication in ACS Nano (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07781).
12/10/2019
Our paper “Strain Effect in Palladium Nanostructures as Nanozymes” was accepted for publication in Nano Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03782). Thanks all the authors for their contributions.
10/2019
Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the SciX 2019 Conference, Palm Springs, CA: “Catalytic nanoparticles as labels for biosensing”.
10/15/2019
Our publication J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 15179 was selected as one of the 2019 HOT Papers of the journal, and was highlighted as the back cover story.
8/2019
Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the 258th ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA: “Metallic nanostructures for medical diagnostics”.
6/24/2019
Our collaborative proposal “MRI: Acquisition of a Confocal and Tip-Enhanced Raman and Photoluminescence Microscope” was funded by the NSF. Dr. Khondaker is the PI and Drs. Gesquiere, Banerjee, Tetard, and Xia are co-PIs on this project. It has been great to work with our great colleagues!
4/21/2019
Our Invited Minireview in ChemNanoMat has been published online (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cnma.201900125).
4/12/2019
Haihang Ye was selected to receive the Outstanding Graduate Scholar Award at the UCF chemistry department. Congratulations.
4/5/2019
Haihang Ye, a Ph.D. student in the Xia Group since 2015, presented in the 16th Annual Graduate Research Forum at UCF and received the Certificate Of Excellence. Congratulations.
4/4/2019
Dr. Xia organized and chaired two symposia – “INOR: Functional Metal Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications” & “COLL: Surface Chemistry of Colloidal Nanocrystals” – in the spring 2019 ACS National Meeting held in Orlando, FL. It was great to meet many colleagues in the meeting. Hope we will have opportunities to meet on other occasions in the near future.
3/19/2019
Haihang Ye successfully defended his thesis work today and became the first Ph.D. from the Xia group. Congratulations! He accepted a postdoctoral fellow position in UT Dallas, starting May 2019.
1/20/2019
Alexander, Gary, and Shane join our group as undergraduate research associates. Welcome.
12/4/2018
Dr. Xia is appointed as an affiliated faculty member by the NanoScience Technology Center (NSTC) at UCF. Looking forward to working with the colleagues in NSTC.
11/16/2018
Zheng, Haihang, and Dr. Xia contribute a Perspective to <Chemistry of Materials> as part of the journal’s “Up and Coming” series. Check our article at: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04152
10/1/2018
Edwin Davidson, a graduate student from the NanoScience Technology Center, joins our group. Welcome.
9/10/2018
Kuryn Magloire joins our group as an undergraduate research associate. Welcome.
9/1/2018
Our group receives a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), “Collaborative research: An enzyme-free amplification technique for ultrasensitive ELISA of disease biomarkers”. Dr. Xia is the PI. Thanks for the support from NSF.
8/20/2018
Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the 256th ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA: “Metal Nanocrystals as Peroxidase Mimics for Biosensing Applications”.
8/7/2018
Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2018 Meeting at Baltimore, MD: “Noble-Metal Nanostructures as Artificial Enzymes: Controlled Synthesis and Electron Microscope Characterizations”.
7/30/2018
Dr. Zheng Xi (Ph.D. from Brown University) joins our group as a postdoctoral scholar. He is partially supported by the UCF Preeminent Postdoctoral Program. Welcome, Zheng.
7/9/2018
Dr. Xia is named the “Journal of Materials Chemistry B Emerging Investigators, 2018″.
5/31/2018
Dr. Xia is invited to give a talk in the Bioengineering department at UCLA.
5/5/2018
The Xia group relocated from Michigan Tech to UCF. Dr. Xia, his wife Sharon (now an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at UCF), and his daughter Evonne settled down in Orlando. Many thanks to the Xia group members, the new colleagues at UCF, and all our family members and friends for their great help and generous support during our relocation and transition!
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9/14/2017
Our research work Nano Letters, 2017, 17, 5572–5579 was highlighted by the NSF Science 360 News as a top story of 9.14.2017.
8/24/2017
Haihang Ye, a PhD student of the Xia group, won an Outstanding Student Poster Award in the 254th ACS National meeting at Washington DC. Congratulations.
8/23/2017
Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the 254th ACS National meeting at Washington DC: “Noble-metal nanostructures for colorimetric diagnostics of cancer biomarkers”.
8/16/2017
Our paper “Platinum decorated gold nanoparticles with dual functionalities for ultrasensitive colorimetric in vitro diagnostics” was accepted for publication in Nano Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02385). Thanks all the authors for their contributions.
8/11/2017
Our paper was selected to be the cover feature of Chemical Communications, Issue 65, 2017. This work was also highlighted as a hot article of July 2017.
7/6/2017
Our paper “A non-enzyme cascade amplification strategy for colorimetric assay of disease biomarkers” was accepted for publication in Chemical Communications (DOI: 10.1039/C7CC04521B).
5/8/2017
Haihang Ye passed the qualifying exam and became a PhD candidate.
4/25/2017
Dr. Xia received a Portage Health Foundation Research Award. The award will support the Xia group to built simple and sensitive detection platforms for disease diagnosis.
4/14/2017
Robert Rauschendorfer, an undergraduate student at the Xia group, accepted an offer from the graduate school of University of Montana, where he will start his graduate study from Fall 2017. Congratulations.
4/10/2017
Dr. Xia visited the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at UT Dallas and gave a talk in the department.
4/6/2017
Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the 253rd ACS National Meeting held in San Francisco, California.
3/01/2017
Tyler Leverton has been selected by the Undergraduate Programs Committee to be the Department Scholar. Congratulations.
2/26/2017
Our paper “Facile Colorimetric Detection of Silver Ions with Picomolar Sensitivity” was accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry. Grace G. Liu, a student from Houghton high school, made a great effort on this work.
1/30/2017
Michigan Tech posted an article “Color of Chemistry: Xiaohu Xia Wins CAREER Award”. Check the news report here: http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2017/january/color-chemistry-xiaohu-xia-wins-career-award.html.
1/30/2017
Our paper “An Enzyme-Free Signal Amplification Technique for Ultrasensitive Colorimetric Assay of Disease Biomarkers” was accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Thanks to all the co-authors.
12/14/2016
Dr. Xia has received the NSF CAREER award. Thanks for the great support from the National Science Foundation.
12/5/2016
Our paper “Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-capped Pt Nanocubes with Superior Peroxidase-like Activity” was accepted for publication in ChemNanoMat.
11/19/2016
Our paper “Peroxidase-like properties of Ruthenium nanoframes” was accepted for publication as cover story in Science Bulletin.
10/12/2016
Our paper “Seed-Mediated Growth of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals” was accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
9/10/2016
Ashima, Emily, Robert, and Jacob join our group as undergraduate research associates, welcome all of you.
8/15/2016
Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the XXV International Materials Research Congress (IMRC) 2016, Cancun, Mexico.
8/13/2016
Shulin Wan joins our group as a graduate student, welcome.
8/1/2016
Grace G. Liu, a high-school student from Houghton high school joins our group as a summer research associate, welcome.
7/01/2016
Dr. Xia group has been awarded with a grant from the State of Michigan (under the M-TRAC program) for “Artificial Enzyme” research.
6/01/2016
The Xia group has received a new funding from the Zytogenex USA, Inc.
4/20/2016
The Xia group has received the David and Valeria Pruett Fund.
3/28/2016
Our paper in Nano Letters was reported by C&EN news: http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i13/Deposition-followed-etching-yields-ruthenium.html
3/17/2016
Our paper “Ru nanoframes with an fcc structure and enhanced catalytic properties” was accepted for publication in Nano Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00607).
3/16/2016
Dr. Xia presented a talk “Bimetallic nanostructures as artificial peroxidases for sensitive colorimetric detection of cancer biomarkers” in the Spring 2016 ACS national meeting, San Diego, CA.
9/1/2015
Our paper “Pd-Ir Core-Shell Nanocubes: A Type of Highly Efficient and Versatile Peroxidase Mimic” was accepted for publication in ACS Nano (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03525).
8/9/2015
Haihang Ye and Jiabin Liu join our group as graduate students, welcome.
5/28/2015
An invited perspective article co-authored by Dr. Xiaohu Xia: “Shape-controlled Synthesis of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals: Thermodynamic versus Kinetic Products” was accepted for publication on J. Am. Chem. Soc. (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b04641).
4/17/2015
Dr. Yugang Sun from Argonne National Laboratory visited our lab and delivered a talk “Interfaced Heterogeneous Nanodimers” in our department.
3/26/2015
Our paper “A Simple Colorimetric Method for the Quantification of Au(III) Ions and Its Use in Quantifying Au Nanoparticles” was accepted for publication in Analytical Methods.
1/12/2015
Jingtuo Zhang joins our group as a visiting graduate student, welcome.
10/2/2014
Tyler Sawal, a second year undergraduate student of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, joins our group, welcome.
8/18/2014
Dr. Xia and his wife Xiaochuan (Sharon) arrive at Michigan Tech; Xiaohu begins his professorship, and the Xia lab is under renovation.