Group News/Updates
01/2024: Our research is featured as a journal cover and published in ACS Applied Optical Materials. Please see more information on our cover https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aaoma6/2/1.
01/2024: Nazanin's first research paper is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Optical Materials. Congratulations, Nazanin.
11/2023: Xiangcheng was invited to write a Behind-the-Paper post at Springer Nature, Chemistry Community. The post appears "Single-molecule fluorescence imaging and sequencing of single synthetic polymers".
11/2023: Xiangcheng's paper "Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers" is finally published online on Nature Chemistry.
08/2023: Koki Sekioka joins RIT as a PhD student in our lab. Welcome. He obtained his BS degree in Biomedical Chemistry from Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.
06/2023: Xiangcheng's (co-1st) paper is accepted by Nature Chemistry. Congrats.
05/2023: Congratulations to Allora on the acceptance of her paper on ferrous ions detection using green fluorescent carbon dots by Talanta Open.
01/2023: We welcome Rex Bartolini, a first-year Ph.D. student to join us for rotations. Rex obtained his BS/MS degree from our department at RIT.
01/2023: Our invited review paper on Fluorescent Carbon Dots for Super-Resolution Microscopy is accepted and published in Materials.
10/2022: Dr. Sun is awarded a grant from ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator to support the single-molecule catalysis work. Many thanks to ACS PRF for supporting our work.
09/2022: We welcome Nazanin Mosleh joining us for her PhD research. Nazanin obtained her MS degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Kharazmi University in Iran.
03/2022: Dr. Sun receives Grant Writers’ Boot Camp Seed Funding from RIT.
03/2022: Dr. Sun is invited to give a talk in the Department of Chemistry at Xijiao Liverpool University via zoom.
10/2021: Our first paper at RIT on glucose detection through SERS was accepted in Analytica Chmica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2021.339226
08/2021: Dr. Sun joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at RIT and the lab opened.
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