NEWS

Position openings:

There are open positions for PhD or Master's students with financial support, starting Fall 2026 to work in the field of nanotechnology, AI, and food safety. Please contact Dr. Lin at Linme@missouri.edu for more details. December 28, 2025).

Recent News:

Congratulations to Mehdi Hajikhani on successfully defending his PhD dissertation (9/26/2025)!

Congratulations to Jung Mun (Journey) Yang on successfully defending her Master's thesis (6/29/2023)!

Congratulations to Kairui (Jason) Zhai on successfully defending his Master's thesis (6/21/2023)!

Congratulations to Sara Asgari on successfully defending her PhD dissertation (2/4/2022)!

Congratulations to Ezgi Pulatsu on successfully defending her PhD dissertation (11/13/2021)!

Highly Cited Paper:

Our paper, “Synthesis of Polyhedral Gold Nanostars as Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Substrates for Measurement of Thiram in Peach Juice”, was listed as one of Analyst’s highest-citing papers, according to the 2021 Journals Citation Report (JCR) released by Clarivate Analytics.

Our paper, "Soy protein-based films incorporated with cellulose nanocrystals and pine needle extract for active packaging. Ind. Crops. Prod. 2018, 112, 412-419", was placed by Web of Science in the top 1% of the academic field of Agricultural Sciences (9/2/2019).

Team:

Current lab members: 4 Ph.D. students.

Completed / former lab members: 12 Ph.D. and 12 Master's students.

Lin Group alumni:

PhD students: Mehdi Hajikhani (2025), Sara Asgari (2022), Ezgi Pulatsu (2021), Zhilong Yu (2019*), Fouad Alsammarraie (2019*), Trang Nguyen (2016*), Zhong Zhang (2014), Xuesong Song (2013), Bin Liu (2012*), Cui Fan (2012), Lili He (2009), Dhanasettakorn Khwankaew (2008*) 

(* co-advised with other faculty).