2012
- January 2011:
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Kyu-Sung and Guokun's paper on single Pt nanoparticle catalysis just appeared on Nano Letters! See link.
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Nesha concludes her successful career in the group and moves to Harvard Medical School for postdoc. We wish her continued success.
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Former postdoc Weilin Xu moves to a professor position in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2011
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December 2011:
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We welcome first-year graduate students Ningmu Zou, Kaori Kubo, and Guanqun Chen join the group!
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August 2011:
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Justin is awarded a highly competitive and prestigious NSF postdoc fellowship. Congratulations, Justin!
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July 2011:
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We welcome Justin Sambur from Colorado State Univ to join us as a new postdoc!
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June 2011:
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Congratulations to Danya for being selected for a Chemistry and Biology Interfaces traineeship!
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Guokun concludes his research in our group and moves to NIST. We wish him well in his continued success!
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ACS PRF awards a new grant to support our single-molecule electrocatalysis research on carbon nanostructures.
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Peng is officially promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure, effective July 1.
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May 2011:
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Rupa Sarkar concludes her postdoc position in the group. We wish her well in her new position at NYU.
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March 2011:
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Peng Chen receives a Distinguished Junior Faculty Award from the Chinese-American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professors Association (CAPA).
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January 2011:
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We welcome Tai-Yen Chen into our group as a new postdoc!
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2010
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November 2010:
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Debashis concludes his postdoc research in the group and will move to Waseda University in Japan for another postdoc. We wish him well in his future pursuits.
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We welcome Danya J. Martell Smart into our group for graduate research!
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The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology recommends Peng for promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure.
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August 2010:
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We welcome undergraduate Kimberly Yeh to join our lab for research.
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Our review article "Single-molecule fluorescence imaging of nanocatalytic processes" has been accepted by Chem. Soc. Rev. It will appear in a thematic issue on "Understanding the Chemistry of Active Sites in Heterogeneous Catalysis - Lessons from In-Situ Spectroscopy Studies".
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Farewell to Jaime Benitez, who starts a postdoc position at A&EP at Cornell, and to Hahn Chong, who concludes his summer research in our group.
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Farewell to Alec White, who concludes his summer research experience in the group.
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Congratulations to Eric on being selected for a CCMR IGERT fellowship.
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July 2010:
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Congratulations to Aaron for winning the Chemistry poster award at the Graduate Association of Chemistry poster session.
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2nd Ph.D. from the group - Congratulations to Dr. Nesha May Andoy!
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DOE awards a new grant to support our research in chemical imaging of single particle catalysis.
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We welcome Dr. Chandra Joshi from Free University of Berlin, Feng Yang from Nanjing University, and Ace Santiago from University of the Philippines to join us!
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June 2010:
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Our group's single-molecule electrocatalysis work featured on the cover of Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.!
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We welcome Hahn Chong to join us for summer REU.
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May 2010:
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First PhD from the group - Congratulations to Dr. Jaime Benitez!
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We welcome Alec White from Whitman College to join us for summer research.
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Our group's single-molecule bioinorganic chemistry research featured on the cover of Natural Product Reports! This is a themed issue on "Metals in Cells".

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April 2010:
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Weilin Meng receives the Hill Fellowship for undergraduate summer research. Congratulations, Weilin!
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Nesha wins Tunis Wentink Prize for outstanding academic and research performance. Congratulations, Nesha!
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Jaime and Aaron's research article on metallochaperone dynamics has been accepted by Faraday Discussions.
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February 2010:
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Our invited Perspective article on single-molecule nanoscale electrocatalysis has been accepted by Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
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January 2010:
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Our invited review on our single-molecule studies of metal regulation and transport accepted by Nat. Prod. Rep. It will appear in the themed issue of Metal Trafficking.
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2009
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December 2009:
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Weilin's review article on single-nanoparticle catalytic kinetics featured on the cover of Nano Research.
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Weilin's single-molecule electrocatalysis of carbon nanotubes featured on the cover of Nano Letters.

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November 2009:
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Congratulations to Xiaochun on the acceptance of his paper by J. Am. Chem. Soc.! This paper describes a single-particle, single-molecule study of size-dependent catalysis of Au-nanoparticles.
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We welcome Eric Choudhary joining our group for graduate research. Welcome, Eric!
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October 2009:
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Jaime's article on using nanovesicle trapping to study weak protein interactions accepted by Methods in Enzymology.
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Weilin's brief review article on single-particle kinetics accepted by Nano Research.
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Dr. Rupa Sarkar from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science joins as a postdoc. Welcome!
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September 2009:
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We welcome Dr. Kyu-Sung Han from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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August 2009:
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We welcome Weilin Meng to join our group for undergrad research.
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Peng selected as 2010 Paul Saltman Awardee.
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Aaron wins Poster Award at Gordon Research Conference on Cell Biology of Metals. Congratulations to Aaron!
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Nesha's paper on CueR-HJ study is featured on the cover of Biophysical Journal.

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July 2009:
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NSF Division of Engineering awards a grant to support our nanocatalysis research.
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May 2009:
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Undergrads Montwaun and Matt join the group for summer research. Welcome!
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Nesha's paper on CueR-HJ interactions accepted by Biophys. J.!
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Apr 2009:
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Weilin concludes his highly successful postdoc career in the group and moves to Berkeley Chemical Engineering. We wish him the best in his future pursuits.
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Army Research Office awards a grant to fund our nanocatalysis research.
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Chemical & Engineering News article "Single-Molecule Fluorescence Events Seen In Real Time" highlights our single-molecule electrocatalysis work.
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Nanowerk article "Pinpointing catalytic reaction sites on carbon nanotube walls" highlights our single-molecule electrocatalysis work.
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Chemistry World news "Catalytic behaviour of SWCNTs scrutinised" highlights our single-molecule nanotube electrocatalysis research.
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Cornell Chronicle article "Finding how carbon nanotubes work as catalysts could lead to cleaner fuels" highlights our single-molecule study on carbon nanotube electrocatalysis.
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Weilin's paper on single-molecule electrocatalysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes accepted by Nano Lett.!
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Feb 2009:
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Our FRONTIERS article on single-nanoparticle catalysis featured on the cover of Chem. Phys. Lett.

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Chemistry World features Weilin's paper about single nanoparticle catalysis in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. See "Single nanocatalyst behavior revealed" by Nina Notman.
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Peng Chen selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.
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Jan 2009:
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Our FRONTIERS article on single-turnover study of nanocatalysis accepted by Chem. Phys. Lett.
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Weilin's study in quantifying nanoparticle activity heterogeneity accepted by Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
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2008
- Dec 2008: Nanocatalysis paper selected by Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, 2008, 18(23) [Link] and Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, 2008, 16(11) [link].
- Nov 2008:
- Weilin's paper on single-molecule kinetic theory of heterogeneous and enzyme catalysis accepted by J. Phys. Chem. C.
- Weilin's work on single nanoparticle catalysis appeared in Nature Materials on-line on Nov 9! Find out how we can watch and interrogate a single gold nanoparticle catalyst in action in real time here.
- October, 2008
- Guokun Liu joins as a postdoc.
- 08/22/2008: NIH-NIGMS awards a R01 grant to fund our single-molecule bioinorganic research!
- 06/07/2008: New student Hao Shen joins the lab. Welcome!
- 06/03/2008: Welcome Rita Medina from University of Puerto Rico joining us for summer REU!
- 05/14/2008: New grant awarded by the Cornell Center for Materials Research for a collaborative research with Profs. Roger Loring and Abe Stroock on the catalytic dynamics of single nanoparticles.
- 04/11/2008: New grant awarded from ACS Petroleum Research Foundation to support our nanoparticle catalysis research.
- 03/13/2008: Dr. Xiaochun Zhou joined us as a postdoc today!
- 02/05/2008: Our copper chaperone work appeared on JACS asap online.
- 01/25/2008: Jaime and Aaron's paper on probing transient chaperone protein interactions with nanovesicle trapping has been accepted by JACS!
- 01/21/2008: We welcome Aleksandr Kalininskiy joins us as a undergrad researcher!
- 01/18/2008: Feng Gao, from U Penn, just joined us today. Welcome!
- 01/16/2008: We welcome Debashis to our group, who has joined us today!
2007
- 12/18/2007: Farewell to Susanta, who has completed a successful postdoctoral research in our group. Susanta will venture into a new direction in single-molecule research at NIH. We wish him the best for his future pursuit. To carry on our ever-increasing research activities, two new postdoctoral researchers will join us in January 2008.
- 12/05/2007: New grant from Wilson Disease Association to support our single-molecule studies of the Wilson Disease Protein.
- 12/03/2007: Jaime and Aaron have submitted their work on probing transient interactions between the copper chaperone Hah1 and Wilson Disease protein. Congratulations!
- 11/27/2007: Congratulations to Aaron, who has been selected for a Molecular Biophysics Traineeship!
- 09/20/2007: Susanta and Nesha's paper on PbrR691-engineered HJ interaction has appeared in JACS ASAP!
- 09/18/2007: Weilin and Jason have submitted their work on single nanoparticle catalysis at single-turnover resolution. Congratulations!
- 09/15/2007: We're working on another new version of the website. Please bear with us as everything slowly gets replaced from our old version to the new version.
- 08/2007: Peng and Nesha's review on single-molecule fluorescence studies of bioinorganic systems has been accepted by Inorg. Chim. Acta.!
- 08/2007: Susanta and Nesha's paper on probing metalloregulator-DNA interactions using engineered Holliday junctions has been accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations!
- 06/2007: Peng and Nesha submitted a short review discussing single-molecule fluorescence studies and possible further applications related to bioinorganic chemistry.
- 05/2007: Jaime was selected again for a NIH Molecular Biophysics Traineeship.
- 03/2007: Susanta and Nesha submitted their work of engineering DNA Holliday junctions as general single-molecule reporters to probe protein-DNA interactions. They applied this novel method to study how a MerR-family metalloregulator interacts with DNA for transcriptional regulation.
- 02/2007: In recognition of our innovative and significant research in Single-Molecule Bioinorganic Chemistry, Peng Chen was awarded a 2007 NSF Career Award. Congratulations to Peng! Congratulations to Nesha and Jaime, who have made significant contributions to the work described in the winning proposal.
- 01/2007: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! As a wonderful gift of the year, Weilin Xu joins our research group! Welcome!
- 09/2006: Aaron Keller pledges allegiance in our group! Welcome!
- 08/2006: Jason Kong becomes another happy member of our lab. Welcome!
- 07/2006: Dr. Susanta Sarkar joins us as a postdoctoral fellow from University of Oregon. Welcome!
- 06/2006: Jaime Benitez was selected to receive a Molecular Biophysics Training Grant. Congratulations to Jaime's good work!
- 06/2006: Undergrad Eric Yeh joins us for summer research. Welcome to the group!
- 03/2006: Derek Klarin wins Hughes Undergraduate Scholarship. Congratulations!
- 01/2006: First year TPCB student Nick Harbison joins us for rotation for spring 2006. Welcome!
- 01/2006: Cornell undergraduate Derek Klarin and Steve Hohwald join the lab. Welcome!
- 12/2005: New graduate students Nesha May Andoy and and Qi Wang join the lab. Welcome!
- 08/2005: Peng Chen wins a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award! Yay!
- 07/2005: Lab was born.
