Sunday, June 3, 2018

Welcome two visiting scholars!

The MAO group welcome Fulbright Scholar Dr. S.K. Gupta in September 2017 and Visiting Professor Dr. W. Luo in May 2018!

MAO Research Group's recent journal publications

Congrats to the nice recent work by the MAO group members and our collaborators:
 
  1. Jose Zuniga, Santosh K. Gupta, Madhab Pokhrel, and Yuanbing Mao, Exploring optical properties of La2Hf2O7:Pr3+ nanoparticles under UV and X-ray excitation for potential lighting and scintillating applications, New Journal of Chemistry, 2018, 42, in press. (Cover) DOI: 10.1039/c8nj00895g.
  1. Lin Wei, Karen Lozano, and Yuanbing Mao, Microwave Popped Co(II)-Graphene Oxide Hybrid: Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Hydrogen Storage, Engineered Science, 2018, in press. DOI: 10.30919/es8d723.
  1. Zichao Wei, Zhaofeng Wang, William R. T. Tait, Madhab Pokhrel, Yuanbing Mao, Jingjing Liu, Lichun Zhang, Weixing Wang, and Luyi Sun, Synthesis of green phosphors from highly active amorphous silica derived from rice husks, Journal of Materials Science, 2018, 53(3), 1824-1832.
  1. Mandana Akia, Dulce Capitanachi, Misael Martinez, Carlos Hernandez, Hector de Santiago, Yuanbing Mao, Karen Lozano, Development and optimization of alumina fine fibers utilizing a centrifugal spinning process, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2018, 262, 175-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2017.11.039.
  1. Swati Mohan and Yuanbing Mao, Hydrothermal synthesized copper gallium delafossite nanoflakes for (photo)electrocatalytic water splitting, ECS Transaction, 2017, 77, 1985-1994.
  1. Jennifer L. Bravo, Hermes Chirino, and Yuanbing Mao, Heterogeneous TiO2@carbon core@shell nanostructured photocatalysts for high efficient waste water treatment, New Journal of Chemistry, 2017, 41, 13600-13610. DOI: 10.1039/C7NJ02083J.
  1. Mandana Akia, Lee Cremar, Mircea Chipara, Edgar Munoz, Hilario Cortez, Hector de Santiago, Fernando  J. Rodriguez-Macias, Yadira I. Vega-CantĂș, Hamidreza Arandiyan, Hongyu Sun, Timothy Lodge, Yuanbing Mao, and Karen Lozano, In Situ Production of Graphene-Fiber Hybrid Structures, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9(30), 25474-25480. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b07509.
  1. Qiang Li, Xing Sun, Karen Lozano, and Yuanbing Mao, Dependence of Photoelectrochemical Properties on Geometry Factors of Interconnected “Caterpillar-like“ ZnO Networks, Electrochimica Acta, 2016, 222, 232-245. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.10.162.
  1. Madhab Pokhrel, Arnold Burger, Michael Groza, and Yuanbing Mao, Enhance the Photoluminescence and Radioluminescence of La2Zr2O7:Eu3+ Core Nanoparticles by Coating with a Thin Y2O3 Shell, Optical Materials, 2017, 68, 35-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2016.11.008.
  1. Kareen Wahid, Madhab Pokhrel, and Yuanbing Mao, Structural, Photoluminescence and Radioluminescence Properties of Eu3+ Doped La2Hf2O7 Nanoparticles, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2017, 245, 89-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2016.10.004.
  1. Madhab Pokhrel, Mataz Alcoutlabi, and Yuanbing Mao, Optical and X-Ray Induced Luminescence from Eu3+ Doped La2Zr2O7 Nanoparticles, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2017, 693, 719-729. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.09.218.

 

Dr. Mao received the UTRGV Excellence Award in Research

On May 3rd, 2018, UTRGV honored achievement and performance with annual Faculty Excellence Awards:
http://www.utrgv.edu/en-us/about-utrgv/news/press-releases/2018/may-03-utrgv-honors-achievement-performance-with-annual-faculty-excellence-awards/index.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sRlWh4pd9U

Big congrats to Dr. Mao and the MAO research group!
We also appreciate all the support from everyone!