News

12/28/2025: Congratulations to Tegu on the publication of his manuscript "Tandem mechanochemical engineering yields highly crystalline metal-organic frameworks" in Chem. Sci. Well done!

12/16/2025: We are pleased to welcome Zizui Zhai and Fatima Jamil, who are joining us as Ph.D. students following their first-semester rotations. Welcome aboard! 

12/10/2025: Terry Plant-Collins successfully defended his double M.S. thesis under the Double Master’s program with Leipzig University. Congratulations to Terry! We are delighted that he will be spending the next few years with us pursuing his Ph.D. degree. 

08/26/2025: Congratulations to Tegu on being selected to receive the Chemistry Alumni Advisory Board Scholarship to support his RA position next summer!
 

08/26/2025: Congratulations to Travis on being selected as one of the two recipients of the Starkey-Holtz Chemistry Undergraduate Research Fund! We look forward to seeing his science unfold in the coming year.

08/12/2025: Congratulations to Gavin on being selected as a PACE student awardee, receiving funding to support his research. Well deserved!

7/29/2025: Congratulations to Terry, Tegu, Hayden, and co-authors on the publication of their manuscript "Beyond Solution Chemistry: Mechanochemistry Enables Clustered Defects in Metal-Organic Frameworks" in Inorg. Chem. Well done!

7/25/2025: Congratulations to Tegu on being selected to receive the NQPI Student Fellowship!

4/17/2025: A big evening for the Gao Lab at the Departmental Achievement Awards Ceremony!  Congratulations to our award winners:
Tegu – Bergmeier Graduate Student Award
Dan – Undergraduate Research Award & ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award
Gavin – Jesse Day Undergraduate Award & Jeanette Grasselli Brown Undergraduate Research Award
Travis – The Alvin W. and Mae S. Carlson Scholarship
Well done, everyone!

4/9/2025: Great work by Tegu, Shehnaz, Dan, and Gavin on their impressive poster presentations at the OHIO Student Expo! Proud of you all — and congratulations to Gavin for winning second place in the undergraduate poster session!

3/11/2025: Congratulations to Tegu and co-authors on their manuscript titled 'Harnessing Mechanochemistry for Direct Synthesis of Imine-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks' published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Well done!

5/24/2024: Congratulations to Tegu and co-authors on their manuscript titled 'Generic and facile mechanochemical access to versatile lattice-Confined Pd(II)-based heterometallic sites' published in Chem. Sci. Well done!

The Gao group will be moving to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio University from Fall 2023 (News here).

Fillipp Edvard Salvador (NMT) successfully defended his M.S. thesis on April 14, 2023. Congratulations! Wish him the best in his future endeavors as he goes on to University of Wisconsin–Madison as a Ph.D. student this fall.