(08/2018) Umair Shamraiz joined us this month. Umair is supported by the IRSIP Fellowship program from Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan.

(07/2018) We welcome Mingxin Wang (Tsinghua University) and Linfeng Chen (Sichuan University) to carry out their summer internships in our group.

(07/2018) Chris Torres began to conduct his summer research through the Summer Pre-Doctoral Institute program.

(06/2018) Alumni news - Dr. Yung-Tin Pan (PhD, 2017) finished his postdoc training at Los Alamos National Lab. He will start his own research career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering of National Tsinghua University. We wish him all the best!

(06/2018) Our work on the formation of dish-like higher-ordered Pd nanostructures appeared in the June issue of Nano Research. It was featured as the cover of this Special Issue. This work examines how the ion-ligand complexation affects the formation kinetics of 2D nanomaterials.

(05/2018) We welcome Siva Arumugam to join us under a visiting program from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST). Siva is supported by a Presidential Fellowship from DGIST.

(04/2018) Congratulations to Minghua for receiving the Phillips 66 Scholarship, and to Huayang for the Bruno H. Wojcik Scholarship!

(04/2018) Jack was selected as a Widiger Fellowship recipient. Congrats!

(03/2018) Yanling Ma joined our group. Yanling came to us from Shanghai Jiaotong University and is supported in part by CSC Scholarship.

(02/2018) Thao received a Hanratty Travel Award to partially support her attendance of the coming MRS Spring Meeting in Arizona. Thao will give two presentations at this meeting. Congrats!

(01/2018) We welcome Miaoyan Huang to join our group. Miaoyan came to Illinois from City University of Hong Kong.

(12/2017) Our work on porous perovskite electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has been included in the Virtual Special Issue on Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and the Environment.

(11/2017) Congratulations to Thao for winning the Lam Research Corporation Scholarship.

(11/2017) Congratulations to Jack and Thao, this year’s winners of the Graduate Research Symposium from our group! Jack was awarded the second place in poster presentation on the acid-stable pyrochlore oxygen evolution reaction catalysts, while Thao won the third place in oral presentation on her study of durability of Pt-based electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction using in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS).

(10/2017) Graduate student, Cheng Zhang (Tsinghua Univ.) and visiting student Yu Zhou (Tianjing Univ.) jioned our group. Welcome!

(09/2017) Using the popular capping agents of oleic acid and oleyamine, we uncovered growth models that can be used to quantify the growth kinetic of nanocrystals. This work appeared in Nano Letters (open access) as an AuthorChoice article.

(09/2017) We welcome Prof. Chuan Shi and Prof. Huijuan Zhang to join us as visiting scholars, supported by CSC scholarship program.

(08/2017) Jaemin and Jack's work on acid-stable, pyrochlore Y2Ru2O7-x oxygen evolution catalysts for water splitting was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (open access). Effect of yttrium on the activity and stability is analyzed. Congrats!

(08/2017) Our work on selective methanation of carbon dioxide by rhodium-on-palladium nanocatalysts appeared as a Very Important Paper (VIP) in ChemNanoMat. Good job, Frank!

(07/2017) We welcome Prof. Haidong Zhao and Dr. Wei Gao to visit us for a year, sponsored by the CSC. We also welcome the undergrauate interns, Kaitian Mao (USTC), Lei Pan (SJTU), Zhen Jia and Yu-Ang Shi (both from Tsinghua) to start their summer research this month.

(06/2017) Kai-Chieh successfully defended his thesis. He will join Intel after his graduation this summer. Best wishes to our newly-minted Doctor!

(04/2017) Jack passed his prelim exam. Good job!

(04/2017) Congrats to Zaid Al-Bardan for being selected as a winner of the ChBE Undergraduate Research Symposium. Zaid is also a recipient of this year's Glenn E. and Barbara R. Ullyot Scholarship.

(03/2017) Kai-Chieh received a Widiger Fellowship in Chemical Engineering. Congrats!

(03/2017) Congratulations to Thao who was selected to participate in the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer! See UIUC Grad College webpage for detail.

(02/2017) Thao passed her prelim exam. Well-done!

(02/2017) Congratulation to Kai-Chieh for receiving a Hanratty Travel Award!

(01/2017) Drew and Talha have successfully passed their quantitative qualification exam in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Congrats!

(12/2016) Yuan-Tin (Frank) Pan successfully defended his PhD thesis. Dr. Pan will carry out his postdoctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Congrats for a job well-done!

(11/2016) Pei-Chieh (Jack) received a Conference Travel Award from Graduate College. Congrats!

(10/2016) We welcome graduate students Talha Al-Zoubi (U of I at Chicago) and Andrew Kuhn (Purdue U), and visiting graduate student Xiaofei Lu (Zhejiang U) to jion our group!

(09/2016) Our work on the creation of AgPt compositional intermetallics from two “immiscible” metals appeared in Nano Letters.

(09/2016) Kai-Chieh's work on the continuous production of carbon-supported Pt3Ni octohedral and Pt cubic catalysts using a novel conveyor transport system was published in Small. The paper was featured as the Frontpiece Article. Congrats!

(08/2016) Congratulations to Thao Ngo for receiving an Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)! Thao will work on using in situ X-ray and TEM techniques to study the structural dynamics of catalysts for fuel cell and other applications.

(05/2016) Yung-Tin (Frank) Pan just won a Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Congrats!

(05/2016) The group held a successful mini research symposium for our five undergraduate students (Mr. Taro Bourne, Miss Xuxia Chen, Miss Lingqing Yan, Miss Yini Zhao, and Miss Wenjun Zhu). We thanked them for their contributions to our research. Lingling will graduate this month and attend Graduate School at UT Austin and Xuxia will go to UC Berkeley in the fall.

(04/2016) Congratulations to our undergraduate award recipients, Miss Xuxia Chen and Miss Lingqing Yan! Xuxia is the recipient of ExxonMobil Scholarship and Lingqing receives the R. J. Van Mynen Scholarship.

(02/2016) Our work on in situ environmental TEM study on the effect of thermal treatment on the structure and ORR acitivty of PtNi catalysts appeared in AIChE Journal.

(01/2016) Our work on self-heating nanoparticle synthesis is featured on the cover of ChemNanoMat in its first issue in 2016. This work was also highlighted in ChemistryViews Magazine.

(12/2015) Our perspective article on in situ liquid TEM for quantitative study of the formation of nanostructures is featured in the Editorial of Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

(11/2015) Dr. Yang is elected an AAAS Fellow.

(10/2015) Congrats to Kai-Chieh on winning a poster award at 2015 ChBE Graduate Research Symposium.

(09/2015) Kai-Chieh received a Hanratty Travel Award. Congrats!

(08/2015) Congratulation to Xi Yin who successfully defended his PhD thesis! Dr. Yin will join Los Alamos National Laboratory soon.

(07/15) Boquan Li and Qingda Liu (both with Tsinghua Xuetang scholarships), and Yan Liu (Top open scholarship), all from Tsinghua Univresity, began their summer internships in our lab. Welcome!

(06/15) We welcome Dr. Yao Qin to join our group. Dr. Qin came to Illinois from Tongji University in Shanghai. Her visit was sponsored by Chinese Scholarship Council.

(06/15) Congrats to Thao Ngo for receiving the EAPSI Award from U.S. National Science Foundation.

(05/15) Congratulation to Xuxia Nora Chen for receiving the Edward Onstott Chemical Engineering Award from the Department.

(04/15) Congratulation to Xi Yin for winning a Graduate Research Silver Award from Materials Research Society (MRS). His award talk was presented at MRS spring meeting this month in San Francisco. Click here for additional information.

(01/15) Prof. Yang received the SKIPER Global Vision Lecturership from Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

(01/15) Jianbo Wu (PhD, 12, Postdoc., 12-14) finished his training with us. He set up his research program at Shanghai Jiaotong University as a National Young Thousand Talent Plan Professor.

(01/15) According to the latest Thomson-Reuters/ISI database, at least a dozen of our recent publications are among the Highly Cited Papers, which "received enough citations to place them in the top 1% of their academic field based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year”.

(12/14) Xi Yin received a 2014 SCS Science Image Challenge Award (Finalist) from the School of Chemical Science. The image was created based on a research paper on "infinite PdPt metal atom chains", appeared in Angewandte Chemie. Congrats!

(12/14) Our group raised $137.26 for the Eastern Illinois Foodbank during the two-week Penny War organized by the ChBE GSAC. We received an edible prize for the charitable donation. Way to go, everyone!

(11/14) Steven Warren received Hanratty Travel Award from ChBE and Fall 2014 Conference Travel Award from Graduate College for him to attend the AIChE meeting in Atlanta. Congrats!

(11/14) Congratulations to Xi Yin for his latest publication in Nano Letters. The work focused on the Hanoi-tower like palladium 2D nanosheets and the understanding of the shape control of metal nanostructures based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations.

(10/14) We welcome Pei-Chieh Shih to join us. Pei-Chieh came to Illinois from National Taiwan University.

(10/14) Xi Yin's work on metal atom wires appeared in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congrats!

(10/14) Dr. Jaemin Kim's work on oxygen-deficient perovskite catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction appeared in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congrats!

(09/14) Our work on higher-order Pd nanosheets appeared in Nano Letters. Congratulations to Yung-Tin, Xi and Mark.

(08/14) Yung-Tin (Frank) Pan received a Dow Graduate Research Fellowship from University of Illinois, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Congratulations!

(07/14) Thao Ngo, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, received a Dow Summer Travel Award from University of Illinois, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

(06/14) Thao Ngo received a Student Travel Award from Gordon Research Conference on Fuel Cells. Thao is an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient. Congrats!

(05/14) Maciej Kowalkowski, an undergraduate intern in our group, is the recipient of Franklin A. Boyle Award. Congrats!

(04/14) Our group research paper won a Poster Award at the Spring 2014 Materials Research Society meeting. The post was presented in the Symposium RR on Solution Synthesis of Inorganic Functional Materials.

(10/13) Two 1st-year PhD students, Thao Ngo and Yuqi Yan, and Prof. Baoliang Lyu jioned our group. Welcome!

(09/13) We welcome Dr. Shaohua Fang, Na Zhang, Si Chen and Maciej Kowalkowski to join our research lab.

(09/13) Alumni News - Prof. Xiaowei Teng (PhD, 06) received a DOE Early Career Research Award earlier this year. Congratulations.

(09/13) Bing Ni completed his research in our lab. Bing's visit is sponsored by the Tsinghua Xuetang Scholarship program.

(08/13) Professor Hong Yang, together with Professors Younan Xia and Charles T. Campbell, guest-edited the August issue of Accounts of Chemical Research.

(08/13) Congratulations to Dr. Qing Du for successfully defending her PhD. thesis. Well done.

(07/13) Congratulations to Dr. Miao Shi for successfully defending her PhD. thesis. She will join BASF next month.

(05/13) Our work on the formation of platinum icosahedral nanoparticles using the GRAILS method appeared in Nano Letters. Dr. Wei Zhou, the first author of this work, is a 2012 Best Doctoral Thesis Award recipient from the Chinese Ministry of Education.

(04/13) Dr. Jaemin Kim joined our research group. He will work on the synthesis and catalytic properties of colloidal metal and alloy nanoparticles .

(03/13) Dr. Qiang Wang joined the group and began to work on the production and reaction engineering of nanoparticles.

(01/13) A pair of review articles from our group appeared in Chemical Society Reviews published by Royal Society of Chemistry.

(11/12) We welcome Kai-Chieh Tsao to join our research group. Kai-Chieh came to us from NTU.

(06/12) Alumni News - Dr. Zhenmeng Peng (PhD, 10) will begin his own research career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Akron.

(04/12) We welcome Dr. Wei Zhou as a visiting scholar. She earned her PhD from BeiHang University.

(01/12) Our group moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We welcome Yung-Tin (Frank) Pan and Steven Warren to join our research team.

(07/11) Xerox Fellows David Alvarado and Mike Horng completed their summer internship with us. We welcome both of them to return in the coming fall semester.

(05/11) Congratulations to Jianbo Wu for being awarded a prestigious Elon Huntington Hooker Graduate Fellowship (2011-2012).

(05/11) Katlyn Mallory obtained her graduate degree and began to work on fuel cell stack research at General Motors Research & Development in Honeoye Falls, NY.

(03/11) Nitin Tyagi finished his graduate study and began to work at Sun Catalytix, a company researching renewable energy located in Cambridge, MA.

(01/11) Isthier Chaudhury went to Washington, DC to meet First Lady Michelle Obama and to share his experiences studying abroad in Beijing, China (2009-2010). For details, read the local news.

(09/10) We welcome Rajinder Singh and Amanda Neukirch to begin their graduate research in the group. Ms. Kelly Santos, a Brazilian National Council (CNPq) scholarship recipient, started her project this month.

(09/10) Hongjun You, a CSC scholarship recipient, completed his research program with us. We thank him for his important contributions to our understanding in the growth mechanism of nanocrystals.

(06/10) Nitin Tyagi and Minh Tran began their graduate research in the group. Elliot Yu started his summer research with us through Xerox Internship Program. Welcome!

(05/10) Adam Gross, Samantha Lyu and Miao Shi received their M.S. degree. Congratulations!

(03/10) Zhenmeng Peng successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Platinum Alloy Nanoparticles: Composition, Shape, Structure and Electrocatalytic Property." He will begin his postdoctorial training at UC Berkeley after his graduation. Congratulations!

(08/09) Prof. Yang accepted an invitation to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of Nano Today, a refereed journal with a 2008 Impact Factor of 8.795 (update-2009 IF: 13.273)

(08/09) Rui Shen successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Surface Modifications of Nanometer- and Micron- Sized Particles and Their Applications.” Congratulations!

(06/09) Congratulations to Zhenmeng Peng for being selected as a 2009 Elon Huntington Hooker Fellow by the University of Rochester.

(06/09) Isthier Chaudhury was selected as a recipient of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State. Congratulations!