Monday, June 8, 2015

New job of alumnus Edna

Congrats, Edna, for starting to work at General Mills, Joplin, Missouri!

Spring 2015 semester ends ...

MAO group celebrated the end of semester (with part of the group) and the graduation of group members Michael Anzaldua, Jennifer Bravo, Edna Garcia and Carolina Valdes!

Research on V2O5@PPy Nanocomposites for energy storage published!

X. Sun, Q. Li, and Y. Mao, The Optimal Ratio of Polypyrrole Decoration on V2O5 Nanofibers as electrode materials for energy storage, Electrochimica Acta, 2015, in press.

Research on the particle size and crystal phase dependent photoluminescence of La2Zr2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles published!

Madhab, good job!
M. Pokhrel, M. G. Brik, and Y. Mao, Particle size and crystal phase dependent photoluminescence of La2Zr2O7:Eu3+ nanoparticles, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 2015, in press.

Work on persistent luminescent nanoparticles published!

Congrats, Bhupendra!
B. B. Srivastava, A. Kuang, and Y. Mao, Persistent luminescent sub-10-nm Cr doped ZnGa2O4 nanoparticles by a bi-phasic synthesis route, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 7372 - 7375.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2015/CC/c5cc00377f#!divAbstract
Graphical abstract: Persistent luminescent sub-10 nm Cr doped ZnGa2O4 nanoparticles by a biphasic synthesis route

Dr. Mao attended the ACS meeting in Denver, CO

Four talks were given plus one POD short (http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/events/acs-multimedia-lab.html).

MAO group attended March Meeting 2015 in San Antonio, Texas

Dr. Mao, Madhab (postdoc), Lin (graduate) and Alejandra (undergraduate) attended March Meeting 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. Three oral and two poster presentations were given!

MAO group highlighted on the 2014 Annual Report from the Office of Research!

The MAO research group has been highlighted on the 2014 Annual Report from the UTPA Office of Research: http://portal.utpa.edu/utpa_main/daa_home/research/research_files/Research%20Report%20Final%202014.pdf

Congrats, Eddy on your NSF GRFP Fellowship!

On April 6, 2015, MAO group alumnus Eduardo (Eddy) Villarreal received a 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship!