Group News
Apr. 25, Harsha and Jahnavi joined our lab as new PhD students, welcome!
Apr. 20, all group members attended the One-day Symposium "The 36th Annual Organic Chemistry Day" in Mizzu, where Dr. Datta and Sunjida gave poster presentations.
March 24 - March 25, Dr. Xu was invited for the departmental seminar in Chemistry Department at Murray State University at Kentucky.
March 17 - March 20, Dr. Xu presented at the ACS Spring Meeting in New Orleans.
Feb. 19, 2024, Dr. Xu was invited for the departmental seminar in the Institute of Materials Science Engineering at WashU.
Feb. 12, 2024, our project on zwitterionic functional biomaterials received research funds from the Spinal Cord Injury/Disease Research Program (SCIDRP)! We are very grateful for their supports!
Jan. 16, 2024, Welcome new students Sara, Sri, and Kevin to join our group!
2023
Dec.19 - Dec. 21, 2023, Dr. Xu attended the CAPA Winter Symposium at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Dec. 4, 2023, Dr. Xu gave an oral presentation at the Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC18) in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Oct. 20, 2023, Dr. Xu was invited for an oral presentation at the ACS Midwest & Great Lake Regional Meeting, 2023.
Sept. 1, 2023, Sunjida joined our lab as a new PhD student, welcome!
Aug. 18, 2023, Dr. Xu gave a research seminar at the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Aug. 3, 2023, Dr. Xu was invited to give a lecture organized by the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Diversity Committee on the topic of “New Career Path in Globalized Society”
June 1, 2023, Dr. Saptarshi Datta joined our lab as a postdoc researcher, welcome!
May 2023, the lab got involved in “ACS STL Career Day” open house to showcase our research and instruments to the local high school students.
Apr. 2023, our undergraduate research students Campion Smith and Liam Lundergan gave oral presentations about their research in UMSL Undergraduate Research Symposium. Great Jobs!
Apr. 2023, our undergraduate research student Taejun Yoo received "2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award", Congratulations!
Apr. 2023, our undergraduate research student Ermioni Dhefto received "ACS Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry", Congratulations!
Apr. 2023, our undergraduate research student Campion Smith received “Outstanding Senior Award” and "ACS Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry", Congratulations!
Apr. 2023, Dr. Xu attended ACS Organic Day at Mizzou and ACS Spring Meeting at Indianapolis.
Apr. 2023, Dr. Xu was awarded by UM Research Award, thanks for the financial supports from the research office of UMSL!
Mar. 2023, Dr. Xu was awarded the UMSL Global International Fellowship, will be visiting Switzerland over the summer!
Jan. 2023, Dr Xu gave a departmental seminar talk at UMSL.
2022
Dec. 2022, the invited review paper in collaboration with Prof. Qian was published in Rare Metals, Congratulations!
Dec. 2022, the collaboration paper with Prof. Wang was published in Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, Congratulations!
Sept. 2022 - the group received a Banavali Green and Sustainable Chemistry Grant to fund our work on sustainable thermoplastic polymers!
August 2022, Our paper titled "Preparation and Characterization of Graphene Oxide/ Polyaniline/Polydopamine Nanocomposites towards Long-Term Anticorrosive Performance of Epoxy Coatings" was accepted for publication in Polymers, Congratulations!
August 2022, Xu Research group at University of Missouri officially started