Lei was awarded the Bobbitt-Chou fellowship this summer. This fellowship supports third-year graduate student to continue excellence in research! Great job, Lei!!

Ben’s paper on “Ultrafine and Ligand-Free Precious Metal (Ru, Ag, Au, Rh and Pd) Nanoclusters Supported on Phosphorus-Doped Carbon” was accepted to be published in Chemistry – A European Journal.  Congrats to Ben and all co-authors!

Gengsheng’s paper on “Dynamic coordination of Eu-iminodiacetate to control fluorochromic response of polymer hydrogels to multistimuli” has just been accepted by Advanced Materials! Congrats to Gengsheng and Srini! Excellent job!

Lei’s second paper on “Synthesis of Mesoporous CoS2 and NixCo1–xS2 with Superior Supercapacitive Performance Using a Facile Solid-Phase Sulfurization” was accepted to be published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congrats to him and all other co-authors!!

Aaron presented his studies on Au-carbon electronic interaction mediated selective oxidation of styrene in ACS fall meeting 2017 DC. Excellent job!

Our paper ‘Surface Engineering of Spherical Metal Nanoparticles with Polymers toward Selective Asymmetric Synthesis of Nanobowls and Janus-Type Dimers’ was selected to be highlighted on Advanced Science News!

Hydrophobicity the Key to Asymmetric Metal Nanoparticle Synthesis

Our paper entitled “Cross-Linking of COOH-Containing Polymers Using Ag(I)-Catalyzed Oxidative Decarboxylation in Aqueous Solution” was accepted by Soft Matter. Check our picture of the UCONN mascot, Husky, on a stretchable hydrogel.  Good job, Gengsheng! Congrats!

 

Srini’s second paper on “Single chain polymeric nanoparticles to promote selective hydroxylation reactions of phenol catalyzed by copper” was accepted to be published in ACS Macro Letters. Congrats to him and all other co-authors!!

Our paper on “Au-carbon electronic interaction mediated selective oxidation of styrene” was accepted to publish in ACS Catalysis. Congrats to Ben and co-authors!