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!
Our undergraduate student, Patrick (Teddy) Kaplita, received “Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship” from UCONN chemistry department! This award will allow him working in the our group in Summer 2017. Congrats Teddy!
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!
Our paper on “Nanoengineering of aggregation-free and thermally-stable gold nanoparticles in mesoporous frameworks” was accepted to publish in Nanoscale. Congrats to Ben and co-authors!
Our paper on “Enzymatic photoreduction of carbon dioxide using polymeric metallofoldamers containing nickel–thiolate cofactors” (ChemCatChem, 2017, 9, 1157-1162) was recently highlighted as the inside cover of ChemCatChem, Issue 7, 2017. ChemistryViews reported our study as “Enzyme-Mimicking Metallofoldamers”. Congrats to Srinivas and all co-authors.
Our paper entitled “Surface engineering of spherical metal nanoparticles with polymers toward selective asymmetric synthesis of nanobowls and Janus-type dimers” was accepted to be published in Small. Congrats to Ben and other co-authors! Excellent work!
Our invited Feature Review article entitled “Engineering Surface Ligands of Noble Metal Nanocatalysts in Tuning the Product Selectivity” was accepted to publish in Catalysts. Congrats to Lei and co-authors!
Our paper entitled <“Enzymatic” photoreduction of CO2 using polymeric metallofoldamers containing Ni-thiolate co-factors> was just accepted to publish in ChemCatChem. Congrats Srini and co-authors!