Congratulations to Morgan (Mengyuan) Li on his first author paper published on ACS Energy Letters and highlighted by Chemical and Engineering News (the weekly news magazine of American Chemical Society).
Congratulations to Xun Li who has successfully defended his dissertation and graduated in spring 2022 with a Ph.D. degree in chemistry.
Congratulations to Dr. Erik Sarnello, who successfully defended his dissertation and is now a postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory!
Prof. Xu receives the prestigious National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award with an additional $238,000 in funding support. The funding award cites his excellent research, productivity and impact in developing hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite materials for solar cells, as well as the broader impacts emanating from the project.
Xun Li is selected nationwide to attend the prestigious Hands-on Photovoltaic Experience (HOPE) workshop sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and hosted at National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado in July 2021.
Congratulations to Professor Xu and his students Haiping Xu and Dominic Rebollar who won the prestigious 2020 R&D100 award for their work "Versatile Method for Preparing Highly Effective Electro-catalyst for CO2 to Chemical Conversion" with Argonne. This News is reported by Argonne National Lab, NIU, U.S. Department of Energy.
Professor Xu is highlighted by Illinois Science and Technology Coalition as Researchers to Know 2020.
Congratulations to Haiping Xu and Dominic Rebollar on their first author (equal contribution) paper published on Nature Energy!
Congratulations to Dominic Rebollar, who is conferred with a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in summer 2020 by NIU. We wish Dom a full recovery soon and look forward to seeing you again! Go Huskies, Dom!
Congratulations to Haiping Xu who has successfully defended her dissertation and graduated in summer 2020 with a Ph.D. degree in chemistry. Haiping is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Xun Li for his Nature paper. We have also been awarded $200,000 by DOE-EERE to continue this project.
Congratulations to Dean Walters, Ph.D. who has successfully graduated in summer 2019 with a Ph.D. . Dean is currently a senior engineer at Argonne National Laboratory.
Jue Gong is the recipient of NIU Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
Congratulations to Jue Gong, Ph.D. who has successfully graduated in fall 2018 with a Ph.D. degree in chemistry. Jue is currently pursuing post-doctoral research at Brown University.
Congratulations to graduate student Erik Sarnello for his receiving the competitive scholarship from the XVII International Small Angle Scattering Conference to attend this meeting in 2018.
Congratulations to graduate student Jue (Jason) Gong who received the 2017 John D. Graham Scholarship.
Congratulations to Jue (Jason) Gong who received 2017 Great Journeys Assistantship grant.
Graduate student Jue (Jason) Gong has been selected by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to attend the 2017 US school on Total Scattering Analysis. Selection is extremely competitive with attendees from top schools in the nation. Jue was selected based on his outstanding academic performance.
Xu's oral presentation "Cold Thoughts on Perovskite Fever" was awarded as the "Best Presentation" in the Energy and Fuel Session at the the 252nd ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia in August 2016. Xu was also invited to deliver our group's research work at various institutes recently including Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida (Nov. 3, 2016), College of Chemistry, Soochow University (Dec. 15, 2016), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (Dec. 19, 2016), Department of Chemical and Bio molecular Engineering, University of Connecticut (Feb. 23, 2017) and Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University (Mar. 10, 2017).
Graduate student Jue (Jason) Gong has been selected by Argonne National Laboratory to attend the 2016 National Neutron X-Ray Scattering School. Selection is extremely competitive with attendees from top schools in the nation. Jue was selected based on his outstanding academic performance.
Congratulations to Heather M. Barkholtz, Ph.D. who graduated in May 2016 with a Ph.D. in Chemistry. With several offers from various prestigious National Labs, Heather accepted the post‐doctoral position at Sandia National Laboratory to continue her academic career as a woman chemist.
Congratulations to Qinglong Jiang, Ph.D. who graduated in August 2015 with a Ph.D. in Chemistry.
Xu was awarded with the prestigious Honorary International Chair Professorship by the National Taipei University of Technology.
Congratulations to Graduate Student Heather Barkholtz, who won the Dissertation Completion Award.
Congratulations to Graduate Student Heather Barkholtz, who won the John D. Graham Scholarship.
Graduate student Heather Barkholtz has been selected by Argonne National Laboratory to attend the 2014 National Neutron X-ray Scattering School. Selection is extremely competitive with attendees from top schools in the nation. Heather was selected based on her outstanding academic performance.
Congratulations to Lauren M. Grabstanowicz who graduated in December 2014 with a Ph.D. in Chemistry.
Our work on Perovskite solar cells is highlighted in NIU Today.
Congratulations to Lauren Grabstanowicz who was awarded with the Joshua E. Neimark Memorial Travel Assistance Award by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)!
Xu gave invited talks to present our group's research at 2013 ACS National meetings in Indianapolis, Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Chinese Academy of Science etc.
Congratulations to Lauren Grabstanowicz for winning First Place in the Student Poster Session at the 2013 MWSCC Technical Symposium.
Graduate student Lauren Grabstanowicz won an InSET NIU–Argonne Distinguished Graduate Student Nanoscience Fellowship (2013–2014).
Graduate student Lauren Grabstanowicz won the Midwest Chapter Society of Cosmetic Chemists scholarship.
Congratulations to Chi‐Kai Lin, who received a postdoctoral offer from Argonne National Laboratory.
Former graduate student Zhenzhen Yang won the prestigious 2011 NIU Most Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Xu gave invited talks at Crystal Materials State‐Key Laboratory, Shangdong University, China and Ludong University, China.
Congratulations to Chi‐Kai Lin and Zhenzhen Yang, who successfully accomplished their Ph.D. degree in chemistry.
Graduate student Zhenzhen Yang has been selected by Argonne National Laboratory to attend the 2011 Neutron X‐ray Scattering School. Selection is extremely competitive with attendees from top schools in the nation. Zhenzhen was selected based on her outstanding academic performance.
Xu has been appointed by the NIU Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies to serve as a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute for Nano Science, Engineering and Technology (InSET).
Congratulations to Zhenzhen Yang who just received the prestigious 2011 NIU Outstanding Graduate Student Award and 2011 Outstanding Women Student Award.
Congratulations to Xiaoqiao Zeng who just received the departmental John D. Graham Scholarship (2011).
Graduate student Chi‐Kai Lin was selected by Argonne's Division of Educational Programs to attend the 2010 Neutron X‐ray Scattering School. This is a special two‐week intense training program provided by both Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The selection process was highly competitive and students chosen are mainly from the Nation's top universities. Chi‐Kai was selected based on his outstanding academic performance. He is now a certified user at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source and will also conduct our research projects at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the near future.
Xu was selected as a recipient of the NIU Outstanding Mentor Award (2010).
Xu has been invited to present the group's work by various institutions, including Purdue University, Sourthern Illinois University at Edwardsville, University of Illinois at Chicago, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, University of Utah, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science etc. (2008–2010).
Graduate student Chi‐Kai Lin won the NIU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry John D. Graham Scholarship (2010).
Graduate student Zhenzhen Yang won an NIU–Argonne Distinguished Graduate Student Nanoscience Fellowship (2010–Present).
Congratulations to Ihor Kulchytskyy who graduated with a M.S. degree in chemistry in 2009; Ihor currently works for BioVantage, a company that produces biofuels.
Graduate student Zhenzhen Yang was awarded a graduate student travel fund to present her research at MRS December Meeting in Boston (2009).
Graduate student Zhenzhen Yang won an NIU Nanoscience Fellowship (2009–Present).
Graduate student Chi‐Kai Lin won the Dissertation Facilitation Award from the Northern Illinois University Graduate School (2009).
Graduate student Chi‐Kai Lin won an NIU–Argonne Distinguished Graduate Student Nanoscience Fellowship (2009–Present).
Graduate student Chi‐Kai Lin was awarded a graduate student travel fund to present his research at MRS December Meeting in Boston (2009).