2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

Highlight in 2010

Younan Xia was featured in a news article published in Record, the official newspaper of Washington University, for being named a "Top 10 Chemist in the World" by the Times Higher Education.

Our paper on the use of gold nanocages for photothermal cancer treatment ("Gold nanocages as photothermal transducers for cancer treatment", Chen, J.; Claus, C.; Laforest, R.; Zhang, Q.; Yang, M.; Gidding, M.; Welch, M. and Xia, Y. Small 2010, 7, 811-817) was highlighted in a press release posted on the Washington University website, in an article published in St. Louis Business Journal (May 10, 2010), and in an article published in Focal Spot, Spring/Summer, 2010).

Jingyi Chen recently accepted a position of Assistant Professor from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Akira Ohnuma recently accepted a position of Assistant Professor from the Catalysis Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan.

Claire Cobley received an MRS Graduate Student Silver Award at the spring national meeting held in San Francisco, April, 2010.

Our review article on metal nanocrystals ("Shape-controlled synthesis of metal nanocrystals: Simple chemistry meets complex physics?", Xia, Y.; Xiong, Y.; Lim, B. and Skrabalak, S. E. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2009, 48, 60-103) was selected as a fast moving front article and highlighted with an interview posted on ScienceWatch.com. It has been  cited more than 150 times since its publication in January, 2009.

Maureen McKiernan was recently selected as one of the winners of the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence during 2009-2010 in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Claire Cobley was recently selected as one of the two 2010 recipients of the Association of Women Faculty (AWF) Graduate Student Award at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jie Zeng received a Journal of Materials Chemistry (JMC) Poster Award at the MRS spring national meeting held in San Francisco, April, 2010.

Our paper on the three-photon luminescence of Au-Ag alloyed nanocages ("Bright three-photon luminescence from Au-Ag alloyed nanostructures for bio-imaging with negligible phototoxicity", Tong, L.; Cobley, C. M.; Chen, J.; Xia, Y. and Cheng, J.-X. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2010, 49, 3485-3488) was highlighted on the inside cover and featured in an article in ScienceDaily.

Our paper on the growth mechanism of Pd nanocubes ("New insights into the growth mechanism and surface structure of palladium nanocrystals", Lim, B.; Liu, Kobayashi, H.; Camargo, P. H. C.; Allard, L. F.; Liu, Y. and Xia, Y. Nano Research 2010, 3, 180-188) was highlighted on the cover.

Younan Xia served as a guest co-editor of a special issue of Advanced Materials on "USTC Materials Science", which was published on May 4th, 2010.

Younan Xia served as a guest co-editor of a special issue of Advanced Functional Materials on "Nanomaterials Research with A Chinese Flavor", which was published in the fall of 2010.

Meng-Yi Bai recently accepted a position of Assistant Professor of Chemistry at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

Sung-Wook Choi recently accepted a position of Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at the Catholic University in Korea.

Our review article on hollow and porous metal nanostructures ("Galvanic replacement reaction: A simple and powerful route to hollow and porous metal nanostructures", Lu, X.; Chen, J.; Skrabalak, S. E. and Xia, Y., Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems, 2007, 221, 1-16) was selected by the Editor and Editorial Board to receive the PE Publishing Award for the Best Paper published in 2007.

Byungkwon Lim recently accepted a position of Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea.

Our paper on the use of peptide-coated gold nanocages as active targeting contrast agent for photoacoustic imaging of melanoma ("In vivo molecular photoacoustic tomography of melanomas targeted by bioconjugated gold nanocages", Kim, C.; Cho, E. C.; Chen, J.; Song, K. H.; Au, L.; Favazza, C.; Zhang, Q.; Cobley, C. M.; Xia, Y. and Wang, L. V. ACS Nano, 2010, in press) was featured in a press release article posted on the WUSTL website, with a title of “Seeing Melanoma”, and covered by many other media.

Our paper on the use of radially aligned nanofibers as dural substitutes ("

Radially aligned, electrospun nanofibers as dural substitutes for wound closure and tissue regeneration applications", Xie, J.; MacEwan, M.; Wilson, R.; Liu, W.; Daku, S. and Xia, Y. ACS Nano 2010, in press) was highlighted in C&EN News, August 26, 2010; it was also featured on the journal cover, and on Nanowerk, posted on August 17, 2010.

Our paper on the synthesis of five-fold twinned Rh nanocrystals ("Facile synthesis of starfish-like Rh nanocrystals by eliminating oxidative etching with a chloride-free precursor", Zhang, H.; Xia, X.; Li, W.; Zeng, J.; Dai, Y.; Yang, D. and Xia, Y. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2010, 49, 5296-5300) was highlighted in Nature Materials, 2010, 9, p. 605.

Younan Xia and Jingyi Chen were recently featured in an article published in Focal Spot (Spring/Summer, 2010), entitled "Targeting Cancer with a Team Approach", for their collaboration with Prof. Michael Welch's group in Department of Radiology, WUSM.

Younan Xia was recently invited to become a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI). KBSI is a government-supported research institute that provides research support and collaboration with its unique, large-scale research facilities and equipment to advance basic science and fundamental technology.

Younan Xia was recently invited to join the International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, starting from 2011.