New publication in Nanoscale

Our paper on “A facile synthesis of Fe3C@mesoporous carbon nitride nanospheres with superior electrocatalytic activity” was accepted for publication in Nanoscale.  Link

Congratulations to Ben and co-authors.

Fire up porous oxides

Our paper “Colloidal Amphiphile-Templated Growth of Highly Crystalline Mesoporous Nonsiliceous Oxides” by Ben Liu et al. (Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 6173–6176) has been highlighted on the front cover of Chemistry of Materials. The cover designed by Ben illustrates outstanding thermal stability of colloidal-amphiphile templates. We highlighted a colloidal amphiphile-templating method to fabricate non-siliceous mesoporous oxides up to 1000 oC.

Two visiting Professors joined the group

We welcome two visiting Professors joined us recently.

Dr. Huiqin Yao is currently an Associate Professor at Ningxia Medical University. She is co-hosted with Prof. Rusling and will stay with us for a year.

Dr. Hongqiang Li is currently an Associate Professor at South China University of Technology. His research background is in nanocomposite materials.

 

Jiafu joined us as a summer student

Jiafu Chen will spend the summer with us. Jiafu is from Lanzhou, China and he is currently a Chemistry junior from Fudan Univeristy. He wined the summer research fellowship from Fudan University. This will support him to work with us for one month. Welcome, Jiafu!

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Robert joined us as a REU student

Robert Daniels will spend the summer with us. He is from Minnesota, and currently a Chemistry Junior at St. Cloud State University. He will work with Dr. Ben Liu on the preparation of mesoporous oxides using polymer-tethered colloidal amphiphiles. Welcome and enjoy!

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New Publication in Angew Chem!

Our paper on “Ligand-assisted co-assembly approach towards mesoporous transition metal oxide/noble metal hybrid catalysts for photochemical water oxidations” was accepted to publish in Angew Chem! Congratulations to Ben and co-authors.

New publications in ChemComm and ACS Catalysis

Our paper on “Facet-dependent catalytic activity of MnO electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions” was accepted to publish in ChemComm!

Our paper on “Robust mesoporous manganese oxide catalysts for water oxidation” was accepted to publish in ACS Catalysis!

Congratulations to Chunghao and co-authors.