Paper on Facile and Scalable Synthesis of "Caterpillar-like" ZnO Nanostructures with Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting Effect accepted by The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congrats Qiang and Xing. The DOI assigned to this article is http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp503155c.

Paper on Morphology-tunable Synthesis of ZnO Nanoforest and its Photoelectrochemical Performance accepted by Nanoscale. Congrats Xing and Qiang.

Congratulations to Xing Sun and Qiang Li for successfully defending their Master theses. Xing is our group’s second M.S. graduate, and Qiang is our group's co-advised M.E. graduate.

Congratulations:
to Xing Sun and Qiang Li for getting accepted to the MSE Ph.D. program at the Texas A&M;
to Eduardo Villarreal for getting accepted to the Ph.D. program at the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University;
and to Kaled Diab for getting accepted to the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
We wish them the best at TAMU, Rice, and UT MedSchool at Houston, respectively.

New research equipment added

Two new pieces of equipment were added to the MAO group in April 2014: an Autolab PGSTAT302N/FRA32 Potentiostat/Galvanostat/ZRA workstation and a FLS980 spectrofluorimeter (Edinburgh Instruments Ltd.).

Plus: A brand new LAMBDA 950 UV/Vis/NIR spectrophotometer from Perkin-Elmer with the capability for diffuse reflectance measurement is now located at the Department of Chemistry;

And the acquisition of an X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy System for Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Multi-Scale Materials at University of Texas-Pan American has been awarded by the Army Research Office while Dr. Mao serves as a co-PI.

2014 Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

Congrats, Xing, for being selected for the University of Texas-Pan American.

Xing's 2014 Graduate Student Travel Scholarship

Congrats, Xing, for the scholarship made possible by the Blandina Cardenas Endowment to attend the ACS meeting in Dallas, TX.

2014 ACS spring meeting

Part of the MAO Group hit north and rolled all the way up to Dallas to attend the 2014 Spring ACS National Meeting. Eight presentations (6 orals and 2 posters) were given in total, and Dr. Mao chaired two sessions.

Two new postdoctor fellows joined the MAO group in March 2014.

Welcome Drs. Madhab Pokhrel and Bhupendra Srivastava!

Manuscript published by JNN!

Congrats on new article entitled "TiO2 fibers: tunable polymorphic phase transformation and electrochemical properties" just accepted by the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology!
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jnn/2015/00000015/00000005/art00055?crawler=true
Edna and Qiang, great job! 

Great job, Long!

On Dec. 3, 2013, Long defended his undergraduate Guerra Honors Program (GHP) thesis. Wonderful!

Great job, high schoolers for summer 2013 research!

Marissa, Sam and Phil, way to go!

Attending AIChE Annual Meeting

Dr. Mao attended the 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting in San Francisco (http://www.aiche.org/conferences/aiche-annual-meeting/2013) from Nov. 3-6 and gave two talks.

Attending Welch Conference 2013

Oct. 27-29, Dr. Mao attended the Welch Conference 2013 on Chemical Research in Houston (http://www.welch1.org/chemical-conference/summary-program).