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| Benjamin Wiley was born in Rochester, NY. At 15, he moved with his family to Minneapolis, MN. At 17. he began attending the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, and graduated in 2003 with a B.S. in chemical engineering, a minor in chemistry, and a minor in Chinese. Since 2003, Ben has been working toward his Ph.D. in chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. As part of the Xia Group, he is currently exploring the nucleation and growth mechanisms by which each shape is obtained, and the applications for which each shape is uniquely suitable. | |
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Joseph McLellan attended Western Washington University where he received his B.S. in 2001 and M.S. in 2003, both in chemistry. His graduate work at Western focused on the use of liquid crystals for the templated growth of organic semiconductors. Since 2001 he has been at the University of Washington working as a graduate student with Prof. Younan Xia. His scientific interests include novel surface patterning and fabrication techniques, nanoparticle synthesis, self-assembly, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). |
| Jungho Son is from Korea. He majored in chemistry and received his B.S. (1999), M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005, inorganic chemistry) in Sungkyunkwan University. In his Ph.D degree, his research was mostly on the crystal structure from the self-assembly of inorganic clusters (polyoxometalates) using ionic interactions under the direction of prof. Young-Uk Kwon. After graduation, he had a research experience in dye-sensitized solar cell as a postdoc in Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea for one and a half year. He joined Younan Xia group in July 2006, and he is now involved in the synthesis and characterization of metal oxide nanowires. | |
| Yujie Xiong was born in Jiangxi, China, in 1979. He entered Special Class for the Gifted Youth (SCGY) at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1996 and received a BS in Chemical Physics in 2000. He obtained his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 2004 from USTC (with Professor Yi Xie), and then joined Professor Younan Xia's group at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle as a postdoctoral fellow. His current research interests include solution-phase synthesis, self-assembly, nucleation and growth, and surface plasmonic properties of nanostructured materials. | |
| Jesse McCann was born in White Plains, New York in 1981. He spent his childhood in the metropolitan area, living on Long Island and in Westchester during his formative years. He attended Dartmouth College from 1999-2003, graduating with an A.B. with honors in Chemistry. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in chemistry under the tutelage of Professor Younan Xia at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is actively engaged in enhancing the electrospinning technique to create nanofibers with novel compositions, morphologies and architectures for such applications as tissue engineering and controlled release. | |
