Nanotech is the next big thing.
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人之云，非知之难，行之惟难；非行之难，终之斯难。

It was said:

The difficult thing is not just to know something, but to do something;

The difficult thing is not even to do something, but to be persistent on doing something.

Positions Open at Utah:  graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with research in organic self-assembly, organic nanowires and devices, molecular sensing and switching, nanoscale and molecular imaging.  Experience and expertise in organic synthesis or nanofabrication and microscopies (AFM, STM, Confocal) are required. 

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Another Ph.D.!

Congrats to Tam for a successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis, July 18, 2008. 

June 23, Yanke's paper, titled "Expedient Vapor Probing of Organic Amines Using Fluorescent Nanofibers Fabricated from an n-Type Organic Semiconductor", is now accepted for publication in Nano Lett.

Congrats to Yanke, as well as Xiaomei and Steve for the contributions. 

June 9, 2008,

Kaushik ... Now Dr. Balakrishnan ... successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. 

Congrats!

May 26, 2008, Dr. Zang will move to University of Utah (Materials Science, also to be adjunct to Chemistry) to assume a USTAR endowed faculty position (http://www.ustar.utah.edu/clusters.html) by the end of this summer. The research labs will be located in the brand new Nanoscience building.

May 1, 2008, Tam and Dr. Yang's work on "Highly Responsive Fluorescent Sensing of Explosives Taggant" has now been accepted for publication in Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical.  Congrats.

April. 12  2008, a mini review by Drs. Ling Zang, Yanke Che and Jeffrey Moore, titled "One-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Planar pi-Conjugated Molecules: Adaptable Building-Blocks for Organic Nanodevices", is now accepted for publication in Accounts of Chemical Research.  It will appear in the coming special Issue of Nanoscience.

April. 10  2008, Dr. Zang is awarded promotion from assistant to associate professor with tenure effective academic year 2008-2009.  thanks go to all the groups people for the help and support.

Mar. 3  2008, Dr. Zang delivered an invited talk at the PittCon Conference in New Orleans on the recent research progress in nanofibril based optoelectronic sensing of gaseous molecules.

Feb. 2008, Yanke's paper on mercury sensing published in ChemComm is now featured as a "Hot Article" by the journal. Congrats! 

Jan. 2008, Dr. Zang delivered a talk at a cross-agency explosives sensing meeting held in DC: "Nanofibril Films for Dual-Sensing
Explosives Detection".

Jan. 2008, Steve has been accepted to Northwestern University's graduate chemistry program with full scholarship.  Congratulations to Steve!

Jan. 2008, Congratulations to Yanke for his new work in Hg2+ sensing has been accepted for publication in ChemComm.

Congratulations to Dr. Ertl for earning Nobel Prize 2007 in Chemistry, with whom Dr. Zang had luckily got some academic interaction on the catalytic conversion of CO during his stay in Germany as a Humboldt Fellow.

Dr. Zang was invited by Accounts of Chemical Research to write a review article based on the recent research on Self-Assembly of Organic Nanowires and Application in Optoelectronic Sensing.

Dr. Jianhua Gao has joined our team, working on the molecular electronics and sensing.  Welcome Jianhua!

Dr. Zang is awarded with another NSF grant for doing research on explosives sensing.  Thanks all for hard working.

The work on thermally activated charge transport through single molecules has been accepted for publication in JACS as a full paper.   This is part of the collaboration with Prof. Tao's lab at ASU.

Yanke's ultralong nanobelts are highlighted in ACS weekly News, June 6, 2007:

http://acswebapplications.acs.org/applications/ccs/application/

index.cfm?pressreleaseid=2813&categoryid=33#ARTICLE_3

Nanofiber research highlighted in Materials Today, July Issue, 2007.

Yanke's ultralong nanobelts are highlighted in a Chemistry Web:

http://www.reactivereports.com/66/66_2.html

Nanotechnology research at NESMI lab is featured in a News Paper, Southeast Missouri:

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1215846.html

Expedient Explosives Detection via Nanofibril Sensor Films now featured in TV, the Heartland News, KFVS12 (CBS):

http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=6590125&nav=menu51_2

(click there for the Video clip)

Explosives Sensing research featured in ACS weekly News, May 25: http://acswebapplications.acs.org/applications/ccs/application/index.

cfm?pressreleaseid=2809&categoryid=33#ARTICLE_4

also in Science Daily:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article

=UPI-1-20070529-12464100-bc-us-fluorescent.xml

in SoftPedia:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Fluorescent-Sensor-Materials-Detects-Explosives-55814.shtml

and in PhysOrg:

http://www.physorg.com/news99672192.html

Tam's JACS paper on Explosives Sensing is highlighted in Nature Nanotechnology, May 25, 2007, http://www.nature.com/nnano/archive/categ_reshighlts_052007.html

Explosives Sensing research featured in a News Paper, the Southern Illinoisan:

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2007/05/29/local/20386177.txt

Our Lab work featured in a recent SIU News: http://news.siu.edu/news/May07/052307tc7063.jsp

May 8, Yanke's paper on fabrication of Ultralong Nanobelts is accepted for publication in JACS, as a Communication.

Congrats to Yanke and co-authors for excellent work!

May 8, Tam's paper on Explosives Sensing with Nanofibril Films is accepted for publication in JACS, as a Communication.

Congrats to Tam and co-authors for excellent work!

April 26, Kaushik has been Awarded the Gower Fellowship from the Chemistry Department, to support his 3-month summer research in 2007.

Congrats to Kaushik, again!

April 26, Kaushik has been honored the Award of “Outstanding Graduate Student Research” by the University, which is to recognize a graduate student whose achievements in research are exceptional and noteworthy.

Congrats to Kaushik!

April, Steve has been Awarded a REU fellowship from UMass Polymer program to support his 3-month summer research over there.  Only 9 students have been selected nationwide.

Congrats to Steve!!

April 24, Yanke's paper on single-nanobelt charge transport and sensing is accepted for publication in JACS, as a Communication.

Congrats to Yanke and co-authors for excellent work!

April 13, Steve Loser has been Awarded the Arnold Fellowship from the Chemistry Department.

Congrats to Steve!!

April, Prashant Meher Ven Muttanapalli joins NESMI.

Welcome aboard, Prashant!

Dr. Zang is granted NSF CAREER award to support a 5-year research project on "Optoelectronic Sensing with Single Organic Nanowires".

Nov. 9., Dr. Zang gave a seminar talk at University of Missouri, Kansas City, on the topic of 1D self-assembly and uniaxial optoelectronic property of planar conjugate molecules. 

Oct., the project of studying 1D exciton migration within PTCDI based solar cell materials has been funded by ACS-PRF. 

Sept. 25, Dr. Zang gave an invited talk at FACSS 2006 Meeting at Orlando, on the topic of controlling and modulating single-molecule electron transport.

Sept. 11, Dr. Zang delivered a talk at ACS 2006 Fall Meeting at San Francisco, on the topic of controlling 1D self-assembly through pi-pi stacking.

July, the project of fabrication of p-n nano-coax has been funded by NSF. 

May 7, the work of "Linearly Polarized Emission of an Organic Semiconductor Nanobelt" has been accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. B as a full article.

Congrats to Aniket and all others for nice work.

May 2, Aniket Datar passed his MS thesis defense on "AFM INVESTIGATION OF 1D SELF-ASSEMBLY OF n-TYPE ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTING MOLECULES".

Congrats to him for nice job!

April 20, the work of "Nanofibril Self-assembly of an Arylene Ethynylene Macrocycle" has been accepted for publication in JACS as a Communication. This work was a collaboration with Prof. Jeff Moore lab at UIUC.

Congrats to Kaushik, Aniket and all others for nice work.

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