2007, 2006, 2005

Highlight in 2008

 

Our work on the self-assembly of silver nanocubes (Matthew Rycenga, Joseph McLellan and Younan Xia, "Controlling the assembly of silver nanocubes through selective functionalization of their faces," Advanced Materials 2008, 20, 2416-2420) was featured on the journal cover, and highlighted online at Nanowerk (http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=6173.php)

 

Eric Lee passed his final exam (thesis defense) and became the 10th Ph.D. from the Xia group on June 25th. Eric is the 1st Ph.D. since the Xia group relocated to Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Alex Briseno passed his final exam (thesis defense) and became the 9th Ph.D. from the Xia group on June 4th. Alex is the last Ph.D. produced by the Xia group at the University of Washington.

 

Dr. Sara Skrabalak accepted a position of Assistant Professor from the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University, Bloomington.

 

Alex Briseno accepted a position of Assistant Professor from the Department of Polymer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

Alex Briseno has received three awards this year: 1) 2008 ICI Student Award Finalist in Applied Polymer Science Symposium; 2) 2006 Frank J. Padden, Jr. Award for Excellence in Polymer Physics Graduate Research; and 3) Xerox Technical Minority Fellowship.

 

Claire Cobley received a Woman Travel Award from the American Chemical Society to attend the Spring Meeting in New Orleans.

 

Eric Formo's paper "Nanostructured Materials by Electrospinning" was selected to receive the Best Session Paper Award from the International Nonwoven Technical Conference (INTC).

 

The review article "Synthesis of Silver Nanostructures with Controlled Shapes and Properties" by Benjamin Wiley, Yugang Sun and Younan Xia, published in Accounts of Chemical Research (2007, 40, 1067-1076) is being featured on the ACS Publications website as a Most-Accessed Article for 2007. 

 

The paper on "Synthesis and Optical Properties of Silver Nanobars and Nanorice" by Benjamin J. Wiley, Yeechi Chen, Joseph M. McLellan, Yujie Xiong, Zhi-Yuan Li, David Ginger, and Younan Xia, published in Nano Letters (2007, 7, 1032-1036) is being featured on the ACS Publications website as a Most-Accessed Article for 2007.

 

According to Scopus, the Elsevier's abstract and citation database, the review article "Electrospinning: Reinventing the Wheel?" by Dan Li and Younan Xia, published in Advanced Materials (2004, 16, 1151-1170) is ranked number one in TopCited in Materials Science in the time period 2004 - 2008, with a total of 379 citations.

 

Younan Xia was recently interviewed by Science Watch, which is now posted on the web site: http://sciencewatch.com/inter/pod/