June 2024:
- We welcome Yujie Chen, an undergrad from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in joining us for summer research this summer.
May 2024:
- Congratulations to Ming on the “acceptance in principle” by Nature Catalysis of his paper on “Long-range enhancement of micropollutant adsorption on metal-promoted photocatalysts.” Ming is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore.
Apr 2024:
- The group celebrated Udit and Paul’s winning of graduate awards!!
- Peng is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. See academy’s announcement and Cornell’s news press.
- Congrats to Paul on being selected as one of the winners of 2024 Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize, which honors our Department’s best third and fourth year physical chemistry students.
- Congratulations to Udit on being selected as one of the winners of the 2024 Tunis Wentink Prize, our department’s highest graduate student award!
- Youngchan and Peng raced in the 10K of the 41th Skunk Cabbage Classic 10K & HM!
- We welcome Dr. Shasha Guo joining us as a new postdoc. Shasha did her PhD in Materials Science & Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
January 2024:
- Rocky’s collaborative paper with the Mavrikakis group of UW Madison appears in ACS Cent. Sci.: “Molecular-scale insights into cooperativity switching of xTAB adsorption on gold nanoparticles.”