Prof. L. Sun's visit

Dr. Luyi Sun from Texas State University-San Marcos visited the MAO group on Sep. 24 and gave a seminar on "Valuable Materials Derived from Rice Husk Biomass".

AFOSR project

Big congrats! The Mao research group is working on a new hydrogen storage project funded by AFOSR starting from September 2012.

Best Chemistry Graduate poster!

Congrats, Xing, for winning the Best Chemistry Graduate poster award!

PREM TAB Meeting 2012

While many students from the MAO research group presented posters for the 2012 HESTEC week held on the UTPA campus, Dr. Mao gave a presentation titled "Heterogeneous Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Applications" as a co-PI for the Technical Advisory Broad meeting of the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program, funded by the NSF.

Welcome, Jinbo!

The first postdoctoral fellow joined the MAO group at mid-September.

ACS South Texas Local Section meeting

On Sep. 7th, Dr. Mao gave a talk on "Nanochemistry at UTPA" during the dinner for the Local Section meeting held at UT-Bronwsville.

244th ACS National Meeting

Dr. Mao and Edna attended the meeting in Philadephia, PA. Dr. Mao gave an oral presentation titled "Functional Complex Oxide Nanomaterials" on August 19th, 2012. As a Sophomore, Edna presented a poster on Aug. 21.