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Highlight in 2011

The Xia group moved to Georgia Institute of Technology in December. Xia will hold a position of Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine, with joint appointments in Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Younan Xia was ranked No. 4 on the list of Top 100 Scientists in Materials Science for the Decade of 1999-2009, based on the citation data released by the Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators

As an author who has published more than 25 papers in Angewandte Chemie International Edition since 2000, Younan Xia was highlighted in the Author Profile section of the journal: 2011, 50, pp. 6958-6959.

Mingshang Jin recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.

Unyong Jeong, a former postdoc of the Xia group, received the Young Scientist Award from the President, Republic of Korea.

Jinyi Chen, a former student of the Xia group (Ph.D., 2006), received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

Our research on the use gold nanocages for theranostic applications ( Xia, Y.; Li, W.; Cobley, C. M.; Chen, J.; Xia, X.; Zhang, Q.; Yang, M.; Cho, E. C. and Brown, P. K. "Gold nanocages: From synthesis to theranostic applications," Accounts of Chemical Research 2011, 44, 914-924) was  recently highlighted in C&EN News, 2011, September 26, pp. 29-32, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/email/html/8939sci1.html.

Younan Xia was appointed as the inaugural chairman of the international advisory board of Advanced Healthcare Materials (currently a special section in Advanced Materials), and the first issue of this new journal will come out in January 2012.

Our work on the synthesis of Ag nanocrystals with concave surfaces (Xia, X.; Zeng, J.; McDearmon, B.; Zheng, Y.; Li, Q. and Xia, Y. "Silver nanocrystals with concave surfaces and their optical and surface-enhanced Raman scattering properties," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011, 50, 12542-12546) was highlighted on the inside cover.

Our work on the development of an on-chip system for screening experimental conditions involved in the synthesis of metal nanocrystals (Zhou, J.; Zeng, J.; Grant, J.; Wu, K. and Xia, Y. "On-chip screening of experimental conditions for the synthesis of noble-metal nanostructures with different morphologies" Small, 2011, 7, 3308-3316) will be highlighted on the cover.

Weiyang Li passed her final exam (thesis defense) and became the 16th Ph.D. from the Xia group on 9/16. She is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Yi Cui at Stanford University.

Yunqian Dai recently accepted a position of Assistant Professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

Yujie Xiong recently accepted a position of Professor of Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China, with a joint appointment in the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale. He was also selected to receive the "1000 Talent Program" Award.

Yadong Yin, a former member of the Xia group (Ph.D., 2002), was recently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the chemistry department at University of California, Riverside.

Qiang Zhang recently accepted a position of Associate Professor at School of Life Sciences, East China  Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Alex Briseno, a former student of the Xia group (Ph.D., 2008) and currently an Assistant Professor of polymer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was selected to receive the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Matthew Rycenga passed his final exam (thesis defense) and became the 15th Ph.D. from the Xia group on 2/16. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University.

Our work on controlling the alignment and assembly of electrospun nanofibers for cell culture (Xie, J.; Liu, W.; MacEwan, M. R.; Yeh, Y.-C.; Thomopoulos, S. and Xia, Y. "Nanofiber membranes with controllable microwells and structural cues and their use in forming cell microarrays and neuronal network," Small 2011, 7, 293-297) was highlighted on the cover.