2025
Oct. 23, new postdoc Dr. Nilesh Charpota joined us, welcome!
Oct. 16-19, Dr. Xu attended the first Scialog Fellow Meeting for Quantum Matter and Information at Tucson, AZ
Oct. 13-14, Dr. Xu gave an invited talk for the ACS Midwest Regional Meeting in the "Polymers and Materials Program" at University of Missouri-Columbia, where Ritika gave a poster presentation.
Aug. 19-21, Dr. Xu organized 3-days summer boot-camp themed "Frontiers in Functional Materials and Quantum Nanotechnology" at Chemistry Department of UMSL in collaboration of Physics Department at Washington University in St. Louis.
July 31, Dr. Xu gave an oral presentation for the Summer Research Symposium at the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, where Zach and Nick gave poster presentations to showcase their summer research achievements. Great job!
July 11, Dr. Xu gave a research talk in Prof. Andrew B. Bocarsly's group at Princeton University.
June 22-27, Dr. Xu gave an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors 2025.
June 1, our undergraduate students Zach and Nick (with Dr. Xu) started the summer research at Princeton University with Prof. Andrew B. Bocarsly.
May 27, we are honored to be selected as a part of NSF BioPacific MIP Platform associated with UCSB and UCLA.
May 16, Sunjida obtained her master degree from UMSL, congratulations!
May 2, Dr. Xu was selected as Scialog Fellow in Quantum Matter and Information supported by Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
April 28, our first PhD student Sunjida passed her independent proposal exam, congratulations!
April 26, all group members attended the One-day Symposium "The 37th Annual Organic Chemistry Day" in Mizzu, where Harsha, Sohail, and Ritika gave poster presentations at UM-Columbia. Well done the team!
April 18, Sohail and Ritika showcased their research programs in Graduate Research Fair 2025. Great Jobs!
April 4, Dr. Xu was awarded the 2025 Young Investigator of The Year Award. Thanks for the esteemed recognition of UM research office!!! (Media covered by UMSL Daily)
March 22 - 27, Dr. Xu presented the latest research in ACS Spring Meeting at San Diego.
March 14, Dr. Xu was appointed as a visiting research faculty under the program of Visiting Research Partnership with Princeton Chemistry from June 2 to August 1, 2025.
Feb. 17-19, Dr. Xu was invited for an oral presentation in Materials Summit at Boston.
Jan. 21, new undergraduate research assistant Nick joined us this semester, welcome!
Jan. 15-18, Dr. Xu attended and gave a talk at the NSF ExpandQISE workshop in Little Rock, AR.
2024
Oct. 28, Sohail and Ritika joined our lab as new PhD students, welcome!
Oct. 13-15, Dr. Xu was invited for an oral presentation at the ACS Midwest Regional Meeting 2024, at Omaha, NE.
Oct. 4, Dr. Xu was invited to give a departmental seminar in the Department of Chemistry at Clarkson University, NY.
Sept. 20, we are excited to get another funding from CAS Pilot/Project Completion grants.
Sept. 20-21, Dr. Xu attended 19th Midwest Carbohydrate and Glycobiology Symposium at WUSTL.
Aug. 22, new undergraduate research assistants John and Shuling joined us this semester, welcome!
Aug. 9, we are excited to get financial supports from NSF Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) for three years in collaboration of Prof. Wang (co-PI) from WUSTL. We are going to "Integrating Single Molecules to Two-Dimensional Materials toward Quantum Devices".
July 24 - Aug. 5, Dr. Xu was visiting the Department of Electrical Engineering at Standford.
May 22, Undergraduate Students Zach and Sheridan joined us to conduct the research over the summer.
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 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