News
May 9, 2024 - Zefeng passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations, Dr. Zhou!
April 24, 2024 - Gavin and Hongyan's lignin review paper has been accepted by Chemical Physics Reviews as a collaboration between our group and Prof. Dunwei Wang's group. Congratulations!
March 12, 2024 - Lianqian and Arjun's paper has been accepted by JACS. Congratulations!
March 1, 2024 - The group welcomes graduate student William Thompson. Bill was a graduate student with Professor Byers. Welcome, Bill!
Februrary 29, 2024 - Qiwen passed her Ph.D. defense with flying colors. Congratulations, Dr. Su-Tobon!
February 12, 2024 - Na-Chuan and Zefeng's paper has been accepted by JACS. Congratulations!
December 31, 2023 - The group thanks Dr. Mi Zhou for his contributions as a postdoc fellow and wish him great success in future endeavors.
December 1, 2023 - The group welcomes first-year graduate students Poom Ungolan and Drew Michaud. Welcome, Poom and Drew!
September 4, 2023 - The group thanks Dr. Lianqian Wu for his contributions and wish him great success in the next position at ETH!
August 30, 2023 - Chao and Xueyi's paper was accepted by JACS. Congratulations!
July 7, 2023 - PhD #2: Wenqi successfully defended. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!!
July 1, 2023 - We appreciate the support from NSF to develop molecularly confined catalysts.
May 8, 2023 - We thank the Dreyfus Foundation for the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Great job, everyone!
May 1, 2023 - Chao successfully defended and became the first PhD from the group. Congratulations, Chao!!
April 27, 2023 - Lianqian's paper has been published by Nature Chemistry. Congratulations, Lianqian!
March 29, 2023 - Kyrsten has reiceved an Honorable Mention for her NSF GRFP application. Great job and keep it up, Kyrsten!
March 5, 2023 - Cangjie and Yu's paper has been accepted by Chemical Science. Congratulations to you both!
January 16, 2023 - The group welcomes new members: Postdoc Dr. Xiaonan Li, graduate students Jiayi Fan and Kuiru Chen, and undergraduates Keely McClellan and Chloe Fields.
January 10, 2023 - Wenqi and Brayan's paper has been accepted by Macromolecules and will be featured on the Front Cover. Congratulations, Wenqi and Brayan!
December 6, 2022 - Hongyan and Gavin's paper has been accepted by ACS Central Science as a collaboration between our group and Prof. Dunwei Wang's group. Congratulations!
October 31, 2022 - The group thanks Dr. Jingsong Yuan for his contributions and wish him great success in his new postdoc position at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab!
July 1, 2022 - Congratulations to Xueyi who passed the oral exam and became a PhD candidate.
May 16, 2022 - Kevin's paper has been accepted by Chemical Science. Congratulations, Kevin!
January 31, 2022 - The group thanks Dr. Cangjie Yang and Dr. Zhensheng Zhao for their contributions and wish them great success in their future endeavors!
December 10, 2021 - Congratulations to Wenqi and Zefeng on publishing their paper in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
December 1, 2021 Welcome first-year gradraduate students Kyrsten, Shoshana, and Brayan! Look forward to the exciting research we will do with you!
August 31, 2021 - Congratulations to Jingsong and Gavin on publishing their paper in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. as a VIP paper.
August 8, 2021 - Congratulations to Gavin, Yu, and Cristina on passing the oral exam and becoming PhD candidates!
June 1, 2021 - Congratulations to Zefeng on passing the oral exam and becoming a PhD candidate!
March 23, 2021 - Congratulations to Gavin for receiving the Honorable Mention for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Well done, Gavin!
January 16, 2021 - Our group has received DARPA SERDP grant for the collaboration led by Prof. Mei Sun at UNC Charlotte. We will be working on the synthesis of fluoropolymers as PFAS absorbents.
January 16, 2021 - Our collaborative work with Prof. Dunwei Wang's group is accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations to Rong (Wang group) and Cangjie (Niu group)!
December 8, 2020 - Welcome Xueyi Liu and Shu Yu Chou, new graduate students of our group!
October 15, 2020 - Welcome new postdoc Dr. Zhensheng Zhao, who joined us from the Adibekian group of Scripps Florida.
Congratulations to Wenqi, Qiwen, Chao, and Kevin for pass the oral exam and became the first batch of PhD candidates of the Niu group. Great job!
July 28, 2020 - Jingsong, Wenqi, and Zefeng's Perspective article on Cascade Polymerization has been featured on the front cover of Macromolecules. Congratulations guys!
July 9, 2020 - Chao and Cangjie's paper on O-sulfation via SuFEx has been accepted for publication in Angew. Chem. Congratulations to all authors!
March 31st, 2020 - Congratulations Qiwen on her award of NSF GFRP! We are very proud of you.
January 5th, 2020 - The group welcomes new postdocs Dr. Mi Zhou and Dr. Lianqian Wu, who came to us from University of South Florida (Advisor: Prof. Jianfeng Cai) and SIOC (Advisor: Prof. Guosheng Liu), respectively.
December 10, 2019 - Our group has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support our efforts in developing radical cascade-driven polymerization and depolymerization. Congratulations to all!
December 10, 2019 - We welcome G1s Cristina Cheng, Gavin Giardino, and Yu Deng to our group. Together we will make some exciting chemistries!
December 10, 2019 - The group has received an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, Doctoral New Investigator grant. Congratulations to all.
October 1st, 2019 - The group welcomes new postdoc Dr. Jingsong Yuan, who obtained his PhD with Prof. Hua Lu at Peking University.
October 1st, 2019 - Hanchu left our group to take a faculty position at Sun Yat-sen University and establish his own independent group. Congratulations Hanchu and you will be very much missed. Best luck with your independent career!
October 1st, 2019 - Our lab has received NIH Director's New Innovator Award to develop new CRISPR systems. Congratulations to all!
August 10th, 2019 - Our recent group outing is a success! Thank you Qiwen for organizing the event and our special guest Alejandro for taking the pictures.
July 30th, 2019 - Our work on the radical cascade-triggered ring-opening polymerization is featured in 2019 JACS Young Investigator Virtual Issue (https://pubs.acs.org/page/jacsat/vi/young-investigator2019). Thank you JACS!
July 29th, 2019 - Hanchu's second first-author paper is accepted by JACS. A very productive postdoc training! Also congratulations to Wenqi, Zefeng, Bohan, and Meirui. Special thanks to our collaborator Dr. Fredrik Haeffner and the Byers group!
May 28th, 2019 - Jia is very honored to receive the Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. This generous award will support our efforts to develop main-chain sustainable polymers from simple renewable building blocks.
May 20th, 2019 - Our first lab member Yingzi Huang has completed her undergraduate studies at Boston College and will be starting graduate school in the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University. It was a great pleasure to work with you, Yingzi! Best of luck at Princeton!
April 30th, 2019 - Meirui An was awarded Norris-Richard Summer Research Fellowship from NESACS. Congratulations Meirui! This is the second consecutive year that our undergraduate researchers was recognized by the prestigious award. Thank you NESACS for your continuous support!
March 29th, 2019 - Qiwen, Kevin, and Jia developed a minicourse "Polymers and You" of five sessions at Housing Families in Malden, MA to a group of 6-9th grade teens. We talked about a range of chemistry concepts and practices, from the atmosphere of Pluto to the Human Genome Project. More than ten house-designed demonstrations were performed. We think the students loved them!
December 1st, 2018 - Qiwen, Kevin, Wenqi, and Zefeng have joined group as graduate students. Welcome! You are the future of our group!
November 27th, 2018- Jia has been selected by the editorial boards of Synlett, Synthesis, and Synfacts to receivethe 2019 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award! We thank Thieme Chemistry Journals for the recognition. Well done everyone!
October 12th, 2018 - Cangjie and Jimmy's paper is accepted by Angew. Chem.! Congrats guys.
August 25th, 2018 - Our first group outing to the Blue Hills was a success! Everyone enjoyed the hike and opportunity for bonding!
August 22nd, 2018 - Hanchu's paper is featured on the Front Cover of JACS, and in the Spotlights.
June 19th, 2018 - Our first paper is accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Congratulations to Hanchu, Bohan, and Yingzi! Well done!
May 6th, 2018 - We successfully hosted an outreach event in collaboration with the Waegele group and the CTY. Thank all for your participation!
April. 19, 2018 - Yingzi Huang wins prestigious Norris-Richard Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship from American Chemical Society. Congrats Yingzi!
Feb. 7, 2018 - Graduate student Chao Liu joined group. Welcome Chao!
Jan 1, 2018 - Postdoc Cangjie Yang joined group. Welcome Cangjie!
Dec 17, 2017 - Our first graduate student Chris Skrodzki joined group. Welcome Chris!
Aug 5, 2017 - Undergraduates Yingzi Huang and Soumya Parashar joined lab. Welcome!
Aug 1, 2017 - Postdoc Hanchu Huang joined lab. Welcome Hanchu!