October 2025:
- Cornell Chronicle features Wenjie’s work: “New view of electrocatalytic intermediates could boost hydrogen production.”
- Wenjie’s paper on imaging electrocatalytic Pd-H* intermediate appears online in Nature Catalysis! Free pdf is here.
September 2025:
- Congratulations to former postdoc Lukasz Krzeminski on starting a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland!
August 2025:
- Congratulations to former postdoc Wenjie on the “acceptance in principle” by Nature Catalysis of his work on imaging electrocatalytic Pd-H surface intermediates!
July 2025:
- We bid farewell to Youngchan, who concludes her highly successful postdoc career in the group and moves to Indiana University to start her independent career. We wish her the best in starting her own lab!
- Congratulations to former postdoc Tai-Yen, his students at Univ of Houston, and everyone else on the per-acceptance of their paper by Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. on the study of cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase, a metallochaperone. This is a work of long-last efforts over more than a decade: started by former graduate student Aaron Keller (now on the faculty of William Jewell College) in collaboration with Prof. Ruma Banerjee’s group at University of Michigan, later taken over by Tai-Yen, then on hiatus while Tai-Yen was busy pioneeing our live-cell imaging work, picked up again after Tai-Yen started his independent career in Houston, and continued and finally wrapped up by Tai-Yen and his students! Bravo!
June 2025:
- Congratulations to Xianwen and Bing, two former postdocs, now independent PIs at National University of Singapore and City University of Hong Kong, respectively, on the acceptance by JACS of their Perspective article on studies of microbe-semiconductor hybrids! See it online here: “Elucidating Energy Conversion Pathways at Biotic/Abiotic Interfaces in Microbe–Semiconductor Hybrids.”
April 2025:
- Congratulations to Youngchan on accepting a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University! Youngchan will start there this summer.
March 2025:
- Udit’s discovery of biphasic mechanochemistry of single-chain polymerization appears in PNAS!
- We bid farewell to Aito Takeuchi, who returns to Kobe University to continue his PhD research.
- Lauren Genova, former PhD student, receives early promotion to Associate Professor at University of Delaware. Congrats to Lauren!
- Former PhD student, Hao Shen, now Assistant Professor at Kent State University, earns tenure, effective this fall. Congratulations to Hao!
February 2025:
- Congratulations to Udit on the acceptance of his paper by PNAS on “Biphasic mechanochemistry of single chain polymerization”!
- Wenyao’s paper on the discovery of a new mechanism for a multidrug efflux pump appears online in Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. Also see a highlight on Cornell Chronicle on this work!
- We bid farewell to Zhiheng, who completes his productive PhD career and moves to University of Chicago for a postdoc position.
January 2025:
- We bid farewell to Udit, who concludes a highly successful career in the group and moves to CalTech for a postdoc position.
