Single-Molecule Nanocatalysis
& Bioinorganic Chemistry
January 2012:
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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.
December 2011:
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We welcome first-year graduate students Ningmu Zou, Kaori Kubo, and Guanqun Chen join the group!
Awards, Fellowships, and Traineeships Won by Group Members
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Graduate Students
Nesha May Andoy: Tunis Wentink Prize for Outstanding Academic and Research Performance, 2010
Jaime Benitez: NIH Molecular Biophysics Traineeship, 2006-2009; Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship, GRC, 2008
Eric Choudhary: NSF IGERT Fellowship on Materials for a Sustainable Future, 2010-2012
Aaron Keller: NIH Molecular Biophysics Traineeship, 2007-2009; Poster Award, Cell Biology of Metals Gordon Research Conference, 2009; Poster Award, Graduate Association of Chemistry poster session, 2010Danya Martell Smart: NIH Chemistry and Biology Interfaces Traineeship, 2011
Kaori Kubo: Heiwa Nakajima fellowship, 2011-2013
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Postdocs
Justin Sambur: NSF postdoc fellowship, 2011 -
Undergraduate Students
Aleksandr Kalininskiy: Hughes Scholar, 2008
Derek Klarin: Hughes Scholar, 2006
Weilin Meng: Hill Fellowship for Undergraduate Summer Research, 2010
News articles featuring our research:
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"Pinpointing catalytic reaction sites on carbon nanotube walls" by Michael Berger, Nanowerk, April 21, 2009.
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"Single-Molecule Fluorescence Events Seen In Real Time" by Mitch Jacoby, Chemical & Engineering News, April 20, 2009, 87, 38.
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"Catalytic behaviour of SWCNTs scrutinised" by Nina Notman, Chemistry World, April 20, 2009.
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"Finding how carbon nanotubes work as catalysts could lead to cleaner fuels" by Bill Steele, Cornell Chronicle.
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"Single nanocatalyst behavior revealed" by Nina Notman, Chemistry World, February 18, 2009.
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Chemistry Today (in Japanese), February 2009, page 12. [pdf]
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"Monitoring catalysis one particle at a time," Nanotechnology Alert, Jan 23, 2009, Frost & Sullivan.
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"Scrutinizing Catalysts" by Mitch Jacoby, Chemical & Engineering News science highlight, 2008, 86, 9.
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"When A Good Nanoparticle Goes Bad," National Science Foundation press release.
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"New method can capture catalysis, one molecule at a time," by Bill Steele, Cornell Chronicle.
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"When a Good Nanoparticle Goes Bad," news highlight by Cornell Center for Materials Research.
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"Watching A Catalyst at Work," New Energy and Fuel.
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"Gold study 'could lead to smart catalysts being produced'" Gold News.