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

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!

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.