{"id":28,"date":"2015-03-19T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/xia\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:48:37","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/xia\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5\/2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate students Arden Floyed, Harrison Crawford, and Dean Nissen joined our research group in the summer for research experiences. Welcome, everyone!<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<p><strong>3\/2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our <span style=\"color: #000000\">research work (<em>J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/em> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/29\/2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our <span style=\"color: #000000\">paper &#8220;Morphology-Invariant Metallic Nanoparticles with Tunable Plasmonic Properties&#8221; was published online in <em>ACS Nano<\/em> (DOI: 10.1021\/acsnano.0c06123).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/27\/2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our <span style=\"color: #000000\">paper &#8220;Nickel\u2013Platinum Nanoparticles as Peroxidase Mimics with a Record High Catalytic Efficiency&#8221; was published online in <em>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/em>\u00a0(DOI: 10.1021\/jacs.0c12605).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>12\/5\/2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia has been selected for the 2020 Outstanding Chemist Award of ACS Orlando Section. Many thanks to colleagues&#8217; great support and students&#8217; hard work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>11\/9\/2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our Feature Article invited by <em>Chemical Communications<\/em> has been published online (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D0CC06575G). This article highlights our recent findings in artificial enzyme development and <em>in-vitro<\/em> diagnostics of disease biomarkers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>10\/16\/2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">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!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/24\/2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Alexander and Tamar joins our group as PhD and Masters students, respectively. Welcome aboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>5\/19\/2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our group receives a 3-year grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), \u201cSimple and Sensitive Immunodetection of Animal-Derived Adulterants in Foods Using Catalytic Nanoparticles\u201d. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>5\/11\/2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>4\/20\/2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our group receives a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), \u201cA General and Robust Route to Highly Diverse Hollow Nanostructures with New Properties\u201d. Dr. Xia is the PI and Drs. Zou and Kim are co-PIs on this project. Thanks for the support from NSF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>3\/25\/2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edwin Davidson successfully defended his Master thesis work today. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2\/26\/2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/9\/2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our <span style=\"color: #000000\">paper &#8220;Template Regeneration in Galvanic Replacement: A Route to Highly Diverse Hollow Nanostructures&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>ACS Nano (<\/em>DOI: 10.1021\/acsnano.9b07781).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>12\/10\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our <span style=\"color: #000000\">paper &#8220;Strain Effect in Palladium Nanostructures as Nanozymes&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>Nano Letters\u00a0(<\/em>DOI: 10.1021\/acs.nanolett.9b03782). Thanks all the authors for their contributions<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the SciX 2019 Conference, Palm Springs, CA: &#8220;Catalytic nanoparticles as labels for biosensing&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/15\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our publication <em>J. Mater. Chem. C<\/em>, 2019, 7, 15179 was selected as one of the 2019 HOT Papers of the journal, and was highlighted as the back cover story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the 258th ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA: &#8220;Metallic nanostructures for medical diagnostics&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>6\/24\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our collaborative proposal &#8220;MRI: Acquisition of a Confocal and Tip-Enhanced Raman and Photoluminescence Microscope&#8221; 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!<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/21\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Invited Minireview in <em>ChemNanoMat<\/em> has been published online (https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/cnma.201900125).<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/12\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haihang Ye was selected to receive the <em>Outstanding Graduate Scholar Award<\/em> at the UCF chemistry department. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/5\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haihang Ye,\u00a0a Ph.D. student in the Xia Group since 2015, presented in the\u00a016th Annual Graduate Research Forum at UCF and received the C<em>ertificate Of Excellence<\/em>. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\/4\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Xia organized and chaired two symposia &#8211; &#8220;INOR: Functional Metal Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications&#8221; &amp; &#8220;COLL: Surface Chemistry of Colloidal Nanocrystals&#8221; &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3\/19\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/20\/2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexander, Gary, and Shane join our group as undergraduate research associates. Welcome.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>12\/4\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>11\/16\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Zheng, Haihang, and Dr. Xia contribute a Perspective to &lt;<em>Chemistry of Materials<\/em>&gt; as part of the journal&#8217;s &#8220;Up and Coming\u201d series. Check our article at:\u00a0https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.chemmater.8b04152<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>10\/1\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Edwin Davidson, a graduate student from the\u00a0NanoScience Technology Center, joins our group. Welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>9\/10\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kuryn Magloire joins our group as an undergraduate research associate. Welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>9\/1\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our group receives a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), \u201cCollaborative research: An enzyme-free amplification technique for ultrasensitive ELISA of disease biomarkers\u201d. Dr. Xia is the PI. Thanks for the support from NSF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/20\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia presented\u00a0an invited talk in\u00a0the 256th ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA: &#8220;Metal Nanocrystals as Peroxidase Mimics for Biosensing Applications&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/7\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia presented\u00a0an invited talk in\u00a0the Microscopy &amp; Microanalysis 2018 Meeting at Baltimore, MD: &#8220;Noble-Metal Nanostructures as Artificial Enzymes: Controlled Synthesis and Electron Microscope Characterizations&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>7\/30\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>7\/9\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia is named the &#8220;<em>Journal of Materials Chemistry B<\/em> Emerging Investigators, 2018&#8243;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>5\/31\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia is invited to give a talk in the Bioengineering department at UCLA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>5\/5\/2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">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,\u00a0and\u00a0all our family members and friends for their great help and generous support during our relocation and transition!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===================================================================================<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>9\/14\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our research work<em> Nano Letters<\/em>, 2017,\u00a0<em>17<\/em>, 5572\u20135579 was highlighted by the NSF Science 360 News as a top story of 9.14.2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/24\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Haihang Ye, a PhD\u00a0student of the Xia group, won an Outstanding Student Poster Award in the 254th ACS National meeting at Washington DC. Congratulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/23\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia presented\u00a0an invited talk in\u00a0the 254th ACS National meeting at Washington DC: &#8220;Noble-metal nanostructures for colorimetric diagnostics of cancer biomarkers&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/16\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our paper &#8220;Platinum decorated gold nanoparticles with dual functionalities for ultrasensitive colorimetric in vitro diagnostics&#8221; was accepted for publication in\u00a0<em>Nano Letters\u00a0(<\/em>DOI: 10.1021\/acs.nanolett.7b02385). Thanks all the authors for their contributions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/11\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our paper was selected to be the cover feature of\u00a0<em>Chemical Communications,\u00a0<\/em>Issue 65, 2017. This work was also highlighted as a hot article of July 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>7\/6\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our paper &#8220;A non-enzyme cascade amplification strategy for colorimetric assay of disease biomarkers&#8221; was accepted for publication in\u00a0<em>Chemical Communications\u00a0(<\/em>DOI: 10.1039\/C7CC04521B).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>5\/8\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Haihang Ye passed the qualifying exam and became a PhD candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>4\/25\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia received a\u00a0Portage Health Foundation Research Award.\u00a0The award will support the Xia group\u00a0to built simple and sensitive detection platforms for disease diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>4\/14\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>4\/10\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia visited the Department of Materials Science &amp; Engineering at UT Dallas and gave a talk in the department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>4\/6\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the 253rd\u00a0ACS National Meeting\u00a0held in San Francisco, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>3\/01\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tyler Leverton has been selected by the Undergraduate Programs Committee to be the Department Scholar. Congratulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">2\/26\/2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our\u00a0paper\u00a0&#8220;Facile Colorimetric Detection of Silver Ions with Picomolar Sensitivity&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>Analytical Chemistry<\/em>. Grace G. Liu, a student from Houghton high school, made a great effort on this work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>1\/30\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Michigan Tech posted an article\u00a0&#8220;Color of Chemistry: Xiaohu Xia Wins CAREER Award&#8221;. Check the news report here: http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/january\/color-chemistry-xiaohu-xia-wins-career-award.html.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>1\/30\/2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our\u00a0paper\u00a0&#8220;An Enzyme-Free Signal Amplification Technique for Ultrasensitive Colorimetric Assay of Disease Biomarkers&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>ACS Nano<\/em>. Thanks to all the co-authors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>12\/14\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia has received the NSF CAREER award. Thanks for the great support from the National Science Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>12\/5\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our\u00a0paper\u00a0&#8220;Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-capped Pt Nanocubes with Superior Peroxidase-like Activity&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>ChemNanoMat<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>11\/19\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our\u00a0paper\u00a0&#8220;Peroxidase-like properties of Ruthenium nanoframes&#8221; was accepted for publication as cover story in <em>Science Bulletin<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>10\/12\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our\u00a0paper\u00a0&#8220;Seed-Mediated Growth of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>Angewandte Chemie International Edition<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>9\/10\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ashima, Emily, Robert, and Jacob join our group as undergraduate research associates, welcome all of you<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/15\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia presented an invited talk in the\u00a0XXV International Materials Research Congress (IMRC) 2016, Cancun, Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/13\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Shulin Wan\u00a0joins our group as a graduate\u00a0student, welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/1\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Grace G. Liu, a high-school student from Houghton high school joins our group as a summer research associate, welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>7\/01\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia group has been\u00a0awarded with a grant from the State of Michigan (under the M-TRAC program) for &#8220;Artificial Enzyme&#8221; research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>6\/01\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The\u00a0Xia group has received\u00a0a\u00a0new\u00a0funding\u00a0from the Zytogenex USA, Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>4\/20\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The\u00a0Xia group has received the\u00a0David and Valeria Pruett Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>3\/28\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our paper in <em>Nano Letters<\/em> was reported by C&amp;EN news:\u00a0http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/94\/i13\/Deposition-followed-etching-yields-ruthenium.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>3\/17\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our paper &#8220;Ru nanoframes with an fcc structure and enhanced catalytic properties&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>Nano Letters\u00a0(<\/em>DOI: 10.1021\/acs.nanolett.6b00607).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>3\/16\/2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia presented a\u00a0talk\u00a0&#8220;Bimetallic nanostructures as artificial peroxidases for sensitive colorimetric detection of cancer biomarkers&#8221; in the Spring 2016 ACS national meeting, San Diego, CA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>9\/1\/2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our paper &#8220;Pd-Ir Core-Shell Nanocubes: A Type of Highly Efficient and Versatile Peroxidase Mimic&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>ACS Nano <\/em>(DOI: 10.1021\/acsnano.5b03525)<em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/9\/2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Haihang Ye and Jiabin Liu join our group as graduate\u00a0students, welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>5\/28\/2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">An invited perspective article co-authored by Dr. Xiaohu Xia: &#8220;Shape-controlled Synthesis of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals: Thermodynamic versus Kinetic Products&#8221; was accepted for publication on J. Am. Chem. Soc. (DOI: 10.1021\/jacs.5b04641).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>4\/17\/2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Yugang Sun from Argonne National Laboratory visited our lab and delivered a talk &#8220;Interfaced Heterogeneous Nanodimers&#8221; in our department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>3\/26\/2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Our paper &#8220;A Simple Colorimetric Method for the Quantification of Au(III) Ions and Its Use in Quantifying Au Nanoparticles&#8221; was accepted for publication in <em>Analytical Methods<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>1\/12\/2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Jingtuo Zhang\u00a0joins our group as a visiting graduate student, welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>10\/2\/2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tyler Sawal, a second year undergraduate student of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, joins our group, welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>8\/18\/2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Xia\u00a0and his wife Xiaochuan (Sharon) arrive at Michigan Tech; Xiaohu begins his professorship, and the Xia lab is under renovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\/2021 Undergraduate students Arden Floyed, Harrison Crawford, and Dean Nissen joined our research group in the summer for research experiences. 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