December 23, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Strengthening and Toughening Hierarchical Nanocellulose via Humidity-Mediated Interface" by ACS Nano. Congratulations to YuanZhen Hou, Qingfang Guan, Jun Xia et al for their excellent work on theory modelling and analysis on this sustainable material system (ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08574).

December 22, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Review Article entitled "Clean and Affordable Hydrogen Fuel from Alkaline Water Splitting: Past, Recent Progress, and Future Prospects" by Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater. 2021, adma.202007100).

December 10, 2020: Congratulations to Qing-Fang Guan, Zi-Meng Han et al for their creation of unique lotus fiber-like spiral hydrogel fiber. The Letter entitled "Bio-inspired lotus fiber-like spiral hydrogel fiber" was accepted by Nano Letters (Nano Lett. 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03707).

November 20, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled " Phase-Controlled 1T Transition Metal Dichalcogenide-Based Multidimensional Hybrid Nanostructures" by CCS Chemistry (CCS Chem. 2021, DOI: 10.31635/ccschem.020.202000578).

November 3, 2020: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the international advisory board of Advanced Materials.

October 12, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Letter entitled "Band Structure Engineering toward Low Onset Potential Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production" by ACS Materials Lett. (ACS Materials Lett. 2020, 2, 12, 1555–1560).

September 23, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "An all-natural bioinspired structural material for plastic replacement" by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Qing-Fang Guan, Huai-Bin Yang, Zi-Meng Han et al for their innovative work on creating an all-natural bio-inspired structural materials for planstic replacement (Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 5401).

September 2, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled " Regenerated isotropic wood" by National Science Review. Congratulations to Qing-Fang Guan, Zi-Meng Han et al for their innovative work on construction of unique regenerated isotropic wood, showing wide application potential in the future (Natl. Sci. Rev. 2020, doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa230).

August 31, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Single crystalline quaternary sulfide nanobelts for efficient solar-to-hydrogen conversion" by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Liang Wu, Qian Wang et al for their innovative work on synthesis of unique quaternary sulfide nanobelts for efficient solar-to-hydrogen conversion. (Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 5194).

August 25, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Bimetallic nickel-molybdenum/tungsten nanoalloys for high-efficiency hydrogen oxidation catalysis in alkaline electrolytes" by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Yu Duan, Zi-You Yu, Li Yang et al for their successful large scale synthesis of unique bimetallic nickel-molybdenum/tungsten nanoalloys with high-efficiency hydrogen oxidation catalysis in alkaline electrolytes. (Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 4789).

October 8, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Polymorphic cobalt diselenide as extremely stable electrocatalyst in acidic media via a phase-mixing strategy" by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Xiao-Long Zhang, Shao-Jin Hu, Ya-Rong Zheng et al for their discovery a phase-mixing strategy for synthesis of polymorphic cobalt diselenide as extremely stable electrocatalyst in acidic media(Nat. Commun. 2019, NCOMMS-19-17747B).

October 1, 2019: Our Perspective entitled "Recycling Valuable Elements from Chemical Synthesis Process of Nanomaterials: A Sustainable View" was accepted by ACS Mater. Lett. (ACS Mater. Lett. 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.9b00283).

June 9, 2019: Our work on biomimetic synthesis of carbon tube aerogel with super-elasticity and thermal insulation has been highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News ("Polar bears inspire strong, elastic, heat-insulating aerogel" (C&ENs 2019, 97(23), 10), Physics World ("Polar bears inspire insulating aerogel"), EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, Phys.Org, NEW ATLAS, The Economic Times and other media.

https://cen.acs.org/materials/nanomaterials/Polar-bears-inspire-strong-elastic/97/i23

https://physicsworld.com/a/polar-bears-inspire-insulating-aerogel/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190606150317.htm

https://www.scientificamerican.com/store/subscribe/scientific-american-magazine/

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/transition-metal-catalyst-helps-produce-sustainable-hydrogen-from-urea/3009007.article

https://www.ustcif.org/default.php/content/3756/

October 29, 2015: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Editorial Board of Crystals starting from October 2015.

Unique Upconversion Core-shell Nanoparticles with Tunable Fluorescence Synthesized by a Sequential Growth Process,
Bin-Bin Ding, Huang-Yong Peng, Hai-Sheng Qian*, Lei Zheng, Shu-Hong Yu*,
Adv. Mater. Interf. 2015, DOI: 10.1002/admi.201500649. 

October 13, 2015: Dr. Jian-Wei Liu received the CAS Exellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for the 2015 Year! Congratulations!

October 12, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "A Stretchable Electronic Fabric Artificial Skin with Pressure-, Lateral Strain- and Flexion- Sensitive Properties" to Advanced Materials by Jin Ge et al (Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504239).

October 8, 2015: Congratulations on our article entitled “Template-Directed Hydrothermal Carbonization of Nitrogen-Containing Carbohydrates: A New Approach for Macroscopic-Scale Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanofiber Aerogels" accepted by Nano Energy (Lu-Ting Song et al, Nano Energy 2015, NANOEN-D-15-01329.

September 4, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our article entitled “A new generation of alloyed/multi-metal chalcogenide nanowires by chemical transformation" by Science Advances (Yuan Yang et al, Sci. Adv. 2015, DOI:10.1126/sciadv.1500714), where Yuan Yang et al discovered a new general strategy for synthesis of a new generation of alloyed/multimetal chalcogenide nanowires with great potential applications in broad technical fields.

August 27, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Communication entitled “Porous MoO2@PC-RGO Nanocomposite Catalysts Derived from Polyoxometalate-based Metal-Organic Frameworks for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution" by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Yu-Jia Tang, Min-Rui Gao et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201505691).

July 16, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled “A Unique Ternary Semiconductor-(Semiconductor/Metal) Nano-Architecture for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution" by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Tao-Tao Zhuang et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201505442).

July 3, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled “Durable Ag/AgCl Nanowires Assembled in Sponge for Continuous Water Purification under Sunlight" by Jin Ge, Xu Wang et al (Jin Ge et al, Mater. Horiz. 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5MH00069F).

June 18, 2015: This is a fruitful season again. Congratulations! Nine undergraduate students in YU Lab successfully got offers from world-leading universities, and they will continue their graduate study soon. Wish you all have bright future!  
Yu-Can Peng (Stanford University), Wei-Zi Yuan  (Northwestern University), Jia-Hua Qiu (Duke University), Yi-Ruo Lu (University of Florida), Zhi-Hong Huang (University of California, Los Angeles), Bin-Zhang Lu (University of California Santa Cruz), Xing-Xing Xu (Uppsala University), Lei Xue (Texas A&M University), Furui Zhang (Boston College).

June 1, 2015: Tao-Tao Zhuang, Xin Wang, Xiaojing Liu, Wenkun Zhu, and Youxian Yan, successfully passed their phD defense! Congratulations!

May 22, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled “Scalable Bromide-Induced Synthesis of Pd@Pt Core-Shell Ultrathin Nanowires with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance toward Oxygen Reduction Reaction" by Hui-Hui Li et al (Hui-Hui Li et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03877).

May 19, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Edge Article entitled “Cobalt Diselenide Nanobelts Grafted on Carbon Fiber Felt: An Efficient and Robust 3D Cathode for Hydrogen Production" by Ya-Rong Zheng, and Min-Rui Gao et al (Ya-Rong Zheng, Min-Rui Gao  et al, Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01335F).

May 15, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled “Bio-inspired Ultrastrong, Highly Biocompatible and Bioactive Natural Polymer/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Films” by Wen-Kun Zhu, Huai-Ping Cong et al (Wen-Kun Zhu et al, Small 2015, 11, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201500486).

April 14, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled “Iron Carbide Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Mesoporous Fe-N Doped Carbon Nanofibers for Efficient Electrocatalysis" by Zhen-Yu Wu, Xing-Xing Xu et al (Zhen-Yu Wu et al, Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. 2015, 54, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201502173).

April 11, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled “A Trialkylphosphine-Driven Chemical Transformation Route to Ag and Bi Based Chalcogenides" by Shi-Kui Han and Chao Guo et al (Shi-Kui Han et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b00041).

March 11, 2015: Congratulations the acceptance of our Article entitled “Hollow ternary PtPdCu nanoparticles: a superior and durable cathodic electrocatalyst, " by Xiao-Jing Liu et al (Xiao-Jing Liu et al, Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, DOI: 10.1039/C4SC04037F).

February 16, 2015: Congratulations the acceptance of our Edge Article entitled “Template- and Surfactant-free Synthesis of Ultrathin CeO2 Nanowires in Mixed Solvent and Their Superior Adsorption Capability for Water Treatment" by Xiao-Fang Yu, Jian-Wei Liu et al (Xiao-Fang Yu, Jian-Wei Liu et al, Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00104H).

January 5, 2015: Congratulations on Jin-Long's well done work on proposing a new concept on how to recycle the valuable pristine nanowire template used in multiplex templating synthesis from the waste solutions! Our Communication entitled “Recycling Nanowire templates for Multiplex Templating Synthesis: A Green and Sustainable Strategy" has been accepted by Chemistry-A European Journal(Jin-Long Wang, Jian-Wei Liu et al, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406022).

January 1, 2015: Our group's work received more than 3,200 citations last year.

December 17, 2014: Nature Index 2014 was just released and our group contributed 12 papers on aerogels in 2013 (WFC = 11.3) (Total Hefei City WFC = 212) (Nature 2014, 516, S68). http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v516/n7531_supp/full/516S68a.html

December 3, 2014: Congratulations the acceptance of our Communication entitled “Scale-Up Templating Synthesis of Resorcinol Formaldehyde/Graphene Oxide Composite Aerogels with Tunable Density and Mechanical Property" by Xin Wang et al (Xin Wang et al, Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. 2014,53, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410668).

November 28, 2014: Congratulations on Min-Rui Gao and Jin-Xia Liang's well done work on discovery of an efficient molybdenum disulfide/cobalt diselenide hybrid catalyst for electrochemical hydrogen generation! Our Communication entitled “An efficient molybdenum disulfide/cobalt diselenide hybrid catalyst for electrochemical hydrogen generation" has been accepted by Nature Communications (Min-Rui Gao, Jin-Xia Liang et al, Nature Commun. 2014, NCOMMS-13-14336C).

November 26, 2014: Congratulations on Zhi-Long's well done work on developing a general and straightforward synthetic route to scale-up synthesis of a series of phenolic resin gels! Our Communication entitled “A General and Straightforward Synthetic Route to Phenolic Resin Gels Templated by Chitosan Networks" has been accepted by Chemistry of Materials (Zhi-Long Yu et al, Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, DOI: 10.1021/cm504036u).

November 22, 2014: Ms Yan Mi from TU Ilmenau, Germany, joined our group for scientific visiting.

November 21, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled “A Facile and General Coating Approach to Moisture/Water-Resistant Metal-Organic Frameworks with Intact Porosity" accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Wang Zhang and Yingli Hu et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, DOI: 10.1021/ja509960n).

October 27, 2014: Professor Shu-Hong Yu received "Thomson Reuters China Citation Laureates 2014 —— Highly Cited Researcher Award".

October 23, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled "A Preloaded CaCO3-DOX@Silica Nanoreactor for pH-Responsive Delivery of Anticancer Drug" accepted by Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. (Yang Zhao et al., Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. 2014, 53, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201408298).

October 21, 2014: Fabian Grote from TU Ilmenau, Germany, joined our group for scientific visiting.

October 9, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Paper entitled “Nitrogen-doped nanoporous carbon nanosheets derived from plant biomass: An efficient catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction" accepted by Energy Environ. Sci. (Ping Chen et al, Energy Environ. Sci. 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4EE02531H).

September 28, 2014: Dr. Min-Rui Gao received the CAS Exellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for the 2014 Year! Congratulations!

Sepetmber 22, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled “Nanowire-Directed Templating Synthesis of Metal-Organic Framework Nanofibers and Their Derived Porous Doped Carbon Nanofibers for Enhanced Electrocatalysis" accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. ( Wang Zhang et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, DOI: 10.1021/ja5084128).

Sepetmber 17, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Article entitled “Understanding the Stability and Reactivity of Ultrathin Tellurium Nanowires in Solution: An Emerging Platform for Chemical Transformation and Material Design" accepted by Nano Research (Liang Xu, Hai-Wei Liang et al, Nano Research 2014, 7, NARE-D-14-00804, in press).

September 17, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Article entitled "Phase Selective Synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 Nanocrystals through Cation Exchange for Photovoltaic Devices" accepted by Chem. Mater. (Yi-Xiu Wang,# Ming Wei,# Feng-Jia Fan#, et al.,Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, DOI: 10.1021/cm501424n. 

September 2, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled "Manipulating Nanowire Assembly for Flexible Transparent Electrodes" accepted by Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. (Jian-Wei Liu†, Jin-Long Wang†, Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. 2014, 53, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201408298).

August 22, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled “Molybdenum Disulfide Nanosheets Decorated Carbon Nanofibres: Synergistic Li Storage and Enhanced Electrochemical Performances" accepted by Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. (Fei Zhou,† Sen Xin,† et al, Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. 2014, 53, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201407103).

July 23, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled “Thermoresponsive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Graphene/Au Nanocomposite Hydrogel for Water Treatment by a Laser-Assisted Approach" accepted by Small (Huai-Ping Cong et al, Small 2014, 10, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201401651, Special Issue on Soft Matter and Interfaces).

July 21, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Full Paper entitled "In Situ Hydrothermal Growth of Low-Cost Ferric Oxides on Carbon Cloth for High-Energy-Density Supercapacitors" accepted by Nano Energy (Li-Feng Chen et al, Nano Energy 2014, 3, NANOEN-D-14-00289, in press).

July 20, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Full Paper entitled “Dyeing bacterial cellulose pellicles for energetic heteroatom doped carbon nanofiber aerogels" accepted by Nano Research (Zhen-Yu Wu, Hai-Wei Liang et al, Nano Research 2014, 7, NARE-D-14-00591, in press).

July 11, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled “An Efficient CeO2/CoSe2 Nanobelt Composite for Electrochemical Water Oxidation" accepted by Small (Ya-Rong Zheng et al, Small 2014, 10, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201401423).

July 4, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Invited Critical Review Article entitled "Graphene-based macroscopic assemblies and architectures: an emerging material system" by Chem. Soc. Rev. (Huai-Ping Cong et al, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, CS-REV-05-2014-000181).

June 26, 2014: RSC Porous Inorganic Materials Symposium presented by Dalton Transactions and Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 26 June, hosted by Professor Shu-Hong Yu

http://www.rsc.org/conferencesandevents/rscevents/international/china/porous-inorganic-materials-symposium.asp

• June 18, 2013: The following undergraduate students in YU Lab successfully got offers from world-leading universities, and they will continue their graduate study soon. Congratulations!!  

  Meng-Ran Wang  (Cornell University), Fei Long (Cornell University), Da He (Boston College), Yun Xue (Drexel University), Yu-Hong Qian (National University of Singapore), Jin Zheng (The University of Hong Kong).

June 8, 2014: Shu-Hong Yu named in List of Highly Cited Researchers for 2014 in the field of materials science by Thomson-Reuters (ISI Web of Knowledge)!    http://highlycited.com/   Note:  "Highly Cited Researchers 2014 represents some of world’s leading scientific minds. Over three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science IndicatorsSM as Highly Cited Papers—ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the mark of exceptional impact."

June 1, 2014: Hui-Hui Li and Liang Dong successfully passed their phD defense! Congratulations!

June 1, 2014: Dr. Chun-Hua Cui received Anhui Provincial Exellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for the 2013 Year! Congratulations!

April 28, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled “Selective Detection of Ferric Ions by Blue-green Photoluminescent Nitrogen-Doped Phenol Formaldehyde Resin Polymer" accepted by Small (Jia Zhang et al, Small 2014, 10, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201303461). 

April 4, 2014: Dr. Hai-Wei Liang received National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for the 2013 Year! Congratulations!

• April 1, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Full Paper entitled “Three-Dimensional Heteroatom-Doped Carbon Nanofiber Networks Derived from Bacterial Cellulose for Supercapactors" accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Li-Feng Chen,† Zhi-Hong Huang,† Hai-Wei Liang et al, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2014, 24, DOI 10.1002/adfm.201400590). 

March 21, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Article entitled “N-Doped Graphene Supported CoSe2 Nanobelt Composite Catalyst for Efficient Water Oxidation" accepted by ACS Nano (Min-Rui Gao, Xuan Cao, Qiang Gao et al,  ACS Nano 2014，8， DOI: 10.1021/nn500880v). 

February 26, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled “Macroscopic Free-standing 3D Hierarchical Architectures Assembled from Silver Nanowires by Ice-templating" by Angewandte Chemie (Huai-Ling Gao, Liang Xu et al, Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. 2014, 53, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201400457).

February 24, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Review Article entitled “Nanoparticles meet electrospinning: Recent advances and future” by Chem. Soc. Rev. (Chuan-Ling Zhang et al, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, DOI: CS-REV-11-2013-060426).

January 28, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled “First sub-kilogram-scale synthesis of high quality ultrathin tellurium nanowires” by Materials Horizons (Kai Wang et al, Mater. Horiz. 2014, 1, in press. MH-COM-01-2014-000004). 

January 28, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled “Carbon nanofiber aerogels for emergent cleanup of oil spillage and chemical leakage under harsh conditions” by Scientific Reports (Zhen-Yu Wu et al, Sci. Rep. 2014, SREP-13-03392, in press.)  

January 21, 2014: Congratulations on the acceptance of Communication entitled “Pumping porous hydrophobic and oleophilic materials makes them consistently thirsty for oil spills " by Angewandte Chemie (Jin Ge et al, Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. 2014, 53, DOI 10.1002/anie.2013 10151).

December 5, 2013: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Accounts of Chemical Research starting from January 2014. 

October 28, 2013: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry of Materials starting from January 2014. 

October 3, 2013:Congratulation on the Article entitled "Bioinspired greigite magnetic nanocrystals: chemical synthesis and biomedicine applications" by Mei Feng, Yang Lu et al accepted by Scientific Reports (Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, DOI:10.1038/srep002405).

September 30, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Full Paper entitled “Controlled synthesis of Kinked Ultrathin ZnS Nanorods/Nanowires Triggered by Chloride Ions: A Case Study" by Small (Tao-Tao Zhuang, Pan Yu et al, Small 2013, 9, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201302656).

September 23-27, 2013: "The 4th Unilever-RSC International Symposium on Functional Materials Science" will be held in BeijinSeptember 30, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Full Paper entitled “Controlled synthesis of Kinked Ultrathin ZnS Nanorods/Nanowires Triggered by Chloride Ions: A Case Study" by Small (Tao-Tao Zhuang, Pan Yu et al, Small 2013, 9, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201302656).g, Hefei and Shanghai. 

September 11, 2013: Congratulations on the work by Huailing Gao et al highlighted by Chemistry World as "Shape memory polymer hosts functional nanoparticles".

August 16, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Ethanol  assisted synthesis of pure and stable amorphouscalcium carbonate nanoparticles" to Chem. Commun. by Shaofeng Chen et al (Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45427D).

August 15, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Full Paper entitled "Flexible all-solid- state high-power supercapacitor fabricated with nitrigen-doped carbon nanofibers derived  from bacterial cellulose" to Energy Environ. Sci. by Li-feng Chen et al (Energy Environ. Sci. 2013, 6, DOI:10.1039/C3EE42366B).

August 9, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "One-Pot Colloidal Chemistry Route to Homogeneous and Doped Colloidosomes" to J. Am. Chem. Soc.  by Xue-Wei Xu et al (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013,135, DOI: 10.1021/ja404880b).

August 7, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Review entitled "Artificial Carbonate Nanocrystals and Layered Structural Nanocomposites Inspired by Nacre: Synthesis, Fabrication and Applications" to Advanced Materials by Hong-Bin Yao and Jin Ge et al (Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201301942. Invited Review for the 25th Anniversary of Advanced Materials).

July 29, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Shape-Memorial Scaffold for Macroscale Assembly of Functional Nanoscale Building Blocks" to Materials Horizons by Huailing Gao and Yang Lu et al (Materials Horizons 2013, 1, DOI:10.1039/C3MH00040K). 

July 26, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Full Paper entitled "Self-Assembled Platimum Chain Networks Driven by Induced Magnetic Dipoles" to Advanced Functional Materials by Minrui Gao and Shiran Zhang et al (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2013, 23, DOI: 10.1002/adfm. 201302262).

July 25, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "A Flexible and Highly Pressure Sensitive Graphene-Polyurethane Sponge Based on Fractured Microstructure Design" to Advanced Materials by Hongbin Yao and Jin Ge et al (Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201303041).

July 25, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Monodisperse PdCu Nanocubes and Their Electrocatalytic Properties" to ChemSusChem by Qiang Gao et al (ChemSusChem 2013, 6, DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201300404).

July 23, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Stretchable and Self-Healing Graphene Oxide-Polymer Composite Hydrogels: A Dual Network Design" to Chemistry of Materials (Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, DOI:10.1021/cm401919c).

July 19, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Letters entitled "Ultrathin W18O49 Nanowire Assemblies for Electrochromic Devices" to Nano Letters (Nano Letters 2013, 13, DOI: 10.1021/nl401304n).

July 19, 2013: Dr. Jian-Wei Liu was invited to attend the 63rd Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, 2013, Germany. Link.

July 15, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Communication entitled "Highly Elastic and Superstretchable Graphene Oxide-Polyamide Hydrogels" by Small (Huai-Ping Cong, Ping Wang et al, Small 2013, 9, DOI: 10.1002/Smll.201301591).

July 8, 2013: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was selected as "Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC"

June 19, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of communication entitled "Ultrathin Hetero-Nanowires Based Flexible Electronic Devices with Tunable Conductivity" to Adv.  Mater. by Jian-Wei Liu, Wei-Ran Huang et al(Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, DOI: 10.1002/adma.20130 1903)."

June 18, 2013: The following undergraduate students in our Lab successfully got offers from world-leading universities in US, and they will continue their graduate study soon. Congratulations!!                                                                                                                                    Yue-Fei Xu (Harvard University), Jing-Jing Yang (University of California, Berkeley), Ze-Ming Wang (University of California, Berkeley), Duo An (Cornell University), Qi-Kai Wu (Yale University),  Tian-Yuan Xiao (University of Florida), Shuo Zhao (Carnegie Mellon University). 

June 18, 2013: Jian-Wei Liu, Feng-Jia Fan, Shi-Kui Han, and Chuan-Ling Zhang successfully passed the phD defense! Congratulations!

June 4, 2013: Dr. Qiao Zhang (our group alumni) received the 2013 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists. Congratulations!

May 13, 2013: Congratulations on the communication titled "Ultrathin PtPdTe Nanowires: A new Platform as Superior Catalyst for Methanol Electrooxidation" by Hui-hui Li, Shuo Zhao, Ming Gong et al accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Angew. Chem. Int, Ed. 2013, 52, DOI: 10. 1002/anie.201302090).

May 3, 2013:Congratulations on the acceptance of our full article entitled "Tuning Magnetic Property and Autophagic Response for Self-Assembled Ni-Co Alloy Nanocrystals" to Adv. Funct. Mater. by Liang Dong, Yun Liu, Yang Lu et at accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2013, 23, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201203767).

April 13, 2013: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Advisory Board of Materials  Horizons starting from April 2013.  

April 7, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Communication entitled "Collodial Synthesis of Ternary AgFeS2 Nanocrystals and Their Transformation to Ag2S-Fe7S8 Heterodimers " to Small by Shi-Kui Han et al accepted by Small (Small 2013, 9,  DOI:10.1002/smll.201300268).

March 26, 2013: "RSC International Symposium on Materials for Sustainable Energy Conversion and Energy Storage " will be held in chongqing, Hefei and Beijing from April 15-19, 2013.

March 21, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Full Article entitled "p-Type Beta-Silver Vanadate Nanoribbons for Nano-Electric Devices with Tunable Electrical Properties" by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Mei Feng, Lin-Bao Luo et al, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2013, 23, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201300413).

March 19, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Nitrogen-Doped Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomosite with Synergistically Enhanced Electrochemical Activities" by Adv. Mater. (Ping Chen, Tian-Yuan Xiao et al, Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201300515).

March 12, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Communication entitled "Bacterial Cellulose Derived Carbon Nanofiber@MnO2 and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanofiber Electrode Materials: Asymmetric Supercapacitor with High Energy and Power Density" by Adv. Mater. (Li-Feng Chen et al, Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201204949).

March 4, 2013: Congratulations on the work by Zheng-Yu Wu et al highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News as "Carbon Aerogels Sop Up Hydrocarbons" and Nature China as "Porous materials: All dreams turned to 'smoke' "

March 2, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Article entitled "Co Assembled Thin Films of Ag Nanowires and Functional Nanoparticles at liquid Interface by Shaking" by Shao-Yi Zhang, Jian-Wei Liu et al accepted by Nanoscale (Nanoscale 2013, 5, ID: NR-ART-11-2012-033856).

February 26, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of the communication entitled "PEGylated Upconversion Luminescent Hollow Nanospheres for Drug Delivery and Vivo Imaging" to Small by Liang Dong, Duo An, Yang Lu et al accepted by Small (Small 2013, 9, 10.1002/smll.201300433).

February 1, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of the full paper entitled " Monolayer Graphene Film on ZnO Nanorod Array for High Performance Schottky Junction Ultraviolet Photodetectors" to Small by Biao Nie, Lin-Bao Luo et al accepted by Small (Small 2013, 9, 10.1002/ smll.20120318).

January 31, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our invited review entitled "Engineering Interface and Surface of Noble Metal Nanoparticle Nanotubes toward Enhanced Catalytic Activity for Fuel Cell Applications " to Accounts of Chemical Research by Chun-Hua Cui et al (Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46, DOI: 10.1021/ar-300254b).

January 29, 2013: Congratulations on the acceptance of our invited review entitled "Multiplex Templating Process in One-Dimensional Nanoscale: Controllable Synthesis, Macroscopic Assemblies, and Applications" to Accounts of Chemical Research by Hai-Wei Liang et al (Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46, DOI: 10.1021/ar300272m).

January 28, 2013: Congratulation on our Article entitled "Composition and Band-Gap Tunable Synthesis of Wurtzite-Derived Cu2ZnSn(S1-xSex)4 Nanocrystals: Theoretical and Experimental Insights" by Feng-Jia Fan et al accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2013, 7, DOI: 10.1021/nn3052296).

January 12, 2013: Dr. Shaofeng Chen received National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award nomination for the 2012 Year! Congratulations!

January 10, 2013: Congratulation on Communication titled "Ultralight, Flexible and Fire-Resistant Carbon Nanofiber Aerogels from Bacterial Cellulose" by Zhen-Yu Wu, Chao Li, Hai-Wei Liang et al accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201209676).

January 2, 2013: Congratulation on our Article entitled "Bio-Inspired Fabrication of Hierarchical FeOOH Nanostructure Array Films at Air-Water Interface, Their Hydrophobicity and Application for Water Treatment" by Lei Liu et al accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2013, 7, DOI: 10.1021/nn305001r).

January 1, 2013: Congratulation on our Article entitled "Flexible graphene/polyaniline composite paper for high-performance supercapacitor" by Huai-Ping Cong et al accepted by Energy Environ. Sci.(Energy Environ. Sci. 2013, 6, DOI:10.1039/C2EE24203F).

December 26, 2012: Jian-Wei Liu and Feng-Jia Fan received the National Scholarship for Graduate Students, 2012. Congratulations! 

December 19, 2012: Congratulation on our Communication titled "Facile Dip Coating Processed Graphene/MnO2 Nanostructured Sponges as High Performance Supercapacitor Electrodes" by Jin Ge, Hong-Bin Yao et al accepted by Nano Energy (Nano Energy 2013, 2, in press. NANOEN-D-12-00255).

December 13, 2012: Congratulation on Communication titled "Binary Network Design to Improve the Performance of Stretchable Conductor Based on Ag Nanowires" by Jin Ge, Hong-Bin Yao et al accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201209596). 

November 29, 2012: Jian-Wei Liu has been selected as one of outstanding young researchers to attend the 63rd Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, 2013, Germany. Congratulations!

November 21-24, 2012: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited by the Korean Ceramic Society to give a Plenary Lecture "Anisotropic Ceramic Nanoparticles, Their Assemblies and Applications" on the 29th International Korea-Japan Seminar on Ceramics, Daegu, Korea.

November 22, 2012:Congratulation on our Article entitled "Linearly arranged polytypic CZTSSe nanocrystals" by Feng-Jia Fan et al accepted by Scientific Reports (Scientific Reports 2012, SREP-12-03205). 

November 20, 2012:Congratulation on our invited critical review entitled "Nanostructured metal chalcogenides: synthesis, modification, and applications in energy conversion and storage devices" by Minrui Gao et al accepted by Chem. Soc. Rev. (Chem. Soc. Rev. 2012, 41, Chemistry of Functional Nanomaterials’ themed issue, CS-CRV-08-2012-035310). 

November 19, 2012: Congratulation on our Article entitled "Ordering Ag nanowire arrays by a glass capillary: A portable, reusable and durable SERS substrate" by Jianwei Liu et al accepted by Scientific Reports (Scientific Reports 2012, SREP-12-03596).  

October 29, 2012: Congratulation on our Communication entitled "Direct evidence for active site-dependent formic acid eletro-oxidation by topmost-surface atomic redistribution in ternary PtPdCu electrocatalyst" by Chun-Hua Cui et al accepted by Chem. Commun.(Chem. Commun. 2012, DOI:10.1039/C2CC35822K).

October 8, 2012: The work on mixed-PtPd-shell PtPdCu nanoparticle nanotubes templated from copper nanowires as efficient and highly durable electrocatalysts by Huihui Li et al has been featured as Front Cover by Adv. Energy Mater.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.v2.10/issuetoc

September 13, 2012: Congratulation on our 10th article published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. during past 10 years.  
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201205545/full

September 12, 2012: Congratulation on our Article entitled "MnO Nanocrystals: A Platform for Integration of MRI and Genuine Autophagy Induction for Chemotherapy" by Yang Lu and Li Zhang et al accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2012, 22, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201202233).

September 10, 2012: Congratulation on our Communication entitled "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Macroscopic Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Hydrogels and Applications for Ultrafast Supercapacitor" by Ping Chen et al accepted by Nano Energy (Nano Energy 2012, 1, ID: NANOEN-D-12-00190).

September 3, 2012: Congratulation on our Communication entitled " Decorating Pt-Co Bimetallic Alloy Nanoparticles on Graphene as Sensors for Detection of Glucose by Catalyzing Luminol Chemiluminescence Reaction " by Ping Yang et al accepted by Small (Small 2012, 8, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201201008).  

August 21, 2012: Congratulation on our Article entitled "Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized Artificial Nacre: Facile In Situ Growth of Nanoparticles, Self-Assembly of Nanosheets, and Multiple Properties" by Hong-Bin Yao, Li-Bo Mao et al accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2012, 6, DOI: 10.1021/nn3029315).

August 15, 2012: Congratulation on our Communications entitled " Controlled Synthesis of PtRu/Graphene Nanocatalysts with Enhanced Methanol Oxidation Activity for Fuel Cells " by Huaiping Cong et al accepted by ChemCatChem (ChemCatChem 2012, 4, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201200403).

August 14, 2012: Congratulation on our Article entitled "Wet-spinning assembly of continuous, neat, and macroscopic graphene fibers" by Huaiping Cong et al accepted by Scientific Reports (Scientific Reports 2012, SREP-12-02014A).

August 13, 2012: Congratulation on our Communication entitled "Large-Scale Colloidal Synthesis of Non-Stoichiometric Cu2ZnSnSe4 Nanocrystals for Thermoelectric Applications" by Fengjia Fan et al accepted by Adv. Mater. (Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, DOI:10.1002/adma.201202860).

August 11, 2012: Congratulation on our Communication entitled "Cu1.94S nanocrystal seed mediated solution-phase growth of unique Cu2S-PbS heteronanostructures" by Taotao Zhuang et al accepted by Chem. Commun. (Chem. Commun. 2012, DOI:10.1039/C2CC35062A).

Aug. 8-10, 2012: Congratulations on our Lab's 10th anniversary since established in 2002.

July 22-27, 2012: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to attend Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Chemistry (Frontiers of Science) held in Colby-Sawyer College, New London, and he gave an invited lecture entitled “Solution Synthesis and Assemblies of Functional Nanobuilding Blocks”.

July 7, 2012: Congratulation on our Article entitled "Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Nanofibers as an Efficient Electrode Material for Supercapacitors" by Li-Feng Chen et al accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2012, 6, DOI: 10.1021/nn302147s).

June 21, 2012: Congratulation on our Communication entitled "Biogenic and Biomimetic Magnetic Nanosized Assemblies," by Chuangling Zhang et al accepted by Small (Small 2012, 8, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201201353).

June 18, 2012: Congratulation on our invited review entitled "Biogenic and Biomimetic Magnetic Nanosized Assemblies," by Yang Lu et al accepted by Nano Today (Nano Today 2012, NANOTODAY-D-12-00104).

May 22, 2012: Congratulation on our review entitled "Macroscopic-Scale Assembled Nanowire Thin Films and Their Functionalities" by Jian-Wei Liu, Hai-Wei Liang et al accepted by Chem. Rev. (Chem. Rev. 2012, 112, 10.1021/cr-2011-00347w).

May 21, 2012: Congratulation on Communication entitled "Macroscopic-Scale Ordered Ultrathin Telluride Films, and Tellurium/Telluride Hetero-Nanowire Films" by Jian-Wei Liu et al accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 10.1002/anie.201201608).

• May 16, 2012: Congratulations on Xiaochen Ren and Qizhi Xu were awarded Mo-Ruo Guo Award (the highest award for undergraduate students in USTC). Xiaochen and Qizhi will move to Northwestern University and Columbia University for their graduate study. Good Luck in US.

          http://www.ustcif.org/default.php/content/1344/

May 15, 2012: Congratulation on our Communication entitled "Ternary PtPdCu electrocatalyst formed through surface atomic redistribution against leaching" by Chun-Hua Cui et al accepted by ChemCatChem (ChemCatChem 2012, 4, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201200070, in press).

May 10, 2012: Congratulation on our full paper entitled "Synthesis of Sea Urchin-Like NiSe Nanofiber Assemblies in Mixed Solution as Economical Pt-Free Catalysts for Electrochemical H2 Production" by Min-Rui Gao et al accepted by J. Mater. Chem. (J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, DOI:10.1039/C2JM31916K, in press. ).

May 7, 2012: Congratulation on the Full Paper "Photo-Thermal Sensitive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Hydrogels as Remote Light Controlled Liquid Microvalves" by Chun-Hua Zhu and Yang Lu et al accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2012, 22, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201201020).

May 3, 2012: Congratulation on the article "Highly Conductive and Stretchable Conductors Fabricated from Bacterial Cellulose" by Chuan-Ling Zhang et al accepted by Nanoscale (Nanoscale 2012, 4, NR-ART-03-2012-030736).

May 1, 2012: Congratulation on our original article entitled "Highly Conductive and Stretchable Conductors Fabricated from Bacterial Cellulose" by Hai-Wei Liang et al accepted by NPG Asia Materials (Asia Mater. 2012, 4, doi:10.1038/AM2012037). 

May 1, 2012: Congratulation on our full paper entitled "A desinged multiscale hierarchical assembly process to produce artificial nacre-like free-standing hybrid films with tunable optical properties" by Hong-Bin Yao et al accepted by J. Mater. Chem. (J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, DOI:10.1039/C2JM31492D). 

April 27, 2012: Congratulation on the full paper entitled "Synthesis of Multifunctional Ag@Au@Phenol Formaldehyde Resin (PFR) Particles Loading with Folic Acids for Photothermal Therapy" by Ping Yang et al accepted by Chem. Eur. J. (Chem. Eur. J. 2012, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201201173).

April 25, 2012: Congratulation on the Article entitled "A Family of Carbon-Based Nanocomposite Tubular Structures Created by in Situ Electron Beam Irradiation" by Jian-Wei Liu et al accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2012, 6, DOI: 10.1021/nn-2012-01310m).

April 18, 2012: Congratulation on Communication entitled "One-Pot Controlled Synthesis of Hexagonal Prism Cu1.94S-ZnS, Cu1.94S-ZnS-Cu1.94S, and Cu1.94S-ZnS-Cu1.94S-ZnS-Cu1.94S Heteronanostructures" by Shikui Han et al accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201202128).

April 16, 2012: Congratulation on Communication entitled "Mixed PtPd Shelled PtPdCu Nanoparticle Nanotubes Templated from Copper Nanowires as Efficient and Highly Durable Electrocatalysts" by Huihui Li et al accepted by Adv. Energy Mater. (Adv. Energy Mater. 2012, 2, DOI:10.1002/aenm.201200207).

April 13, 2012: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Executive Editorial Board of Particle starting from April 2012.

April 3, 2012: Congratulation on the full paper entitled "Completely Green Synthesis of Colloid Adams Catalyst α-PtO2 Nanocrystals and Derivative Pt Nanocrystals with High Activity and Stability for Oxygen Reduction" by Minrui Gao et al accepted by Chem. Eur. J. (Chem. Eur. J. 2012, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201200353, in press).

March 30, 2012: Congratulation on Dr Chun-Hua Cui's Article entitled "Surface Composition and Lattice Ordering Controlled Activity and Durability of CuPt Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction" accepted by ACS Catalysis (ACS Catalysis 2012, 2, DOI: 10.1021/cs300058c, in press).

March 20, 2012: Congratulation on Dr Yang Zhao et al's Communication entitled "Synthesis of Tunable Theranostic Fe3O4@Mesoporous Silica Nanospheres for Biomedical Applications" accepted by Adv. Healthcare Mater. (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 2012, 1, DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201200005. In press).

March 14, 2012: Congratulation on Dr Hai-Wei Liang et al's Communication entitled "Macroscopic Scale Templating Synthesis of Robust Carbonaceous Nanofiber Hydrogels and Aerogels and Their Applications" accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201200710. In press.).

February 3, 2012: Congratulation on Dr Huai-Ping Cong et al's Article entitled "Macroscopic Multifunctional Graphene Hydrogels and Aerogels by Metal Ion Induced Self-Assembly Process" accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2012, 6, DOI: 10.1021/nn300082k).

February 1, 2012: Congratulation on Dr Xiaohui Guo et al's Communication entitled "Cobalt Doping-Induced Synthesis of High Quality Ceria Nanodiscs and Their Significantly Enhanced Catalytic Activity" accepted by Small (Small 2012, 8, smll.201102179. In press).

January 26, 2012: Congratulation on Dr Minrui Gao et al's Communication entitled "Water Oxidation Electrocatalyzed by An Efficient Mn3O4/CoSe2 Nanocomposite" accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.(J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, DOI: 10.1021/ja211526y).

January 12-13, 2012: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited by The Ceramic Society of Japan to deliver invited lecture in Tokyo on the 50th Anniversary Symposium on Basic Science of Ceramics.

December 28, 2011: Congratulation on Dr Huaiping Cong et al's Communication entitled " Synthesis and Optical Properties of Mesoporous β-Co(OH)2/Brilliant Blue G (G250) Hybrid Hierarchical Structures " accepted by Adv. Mater. (Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, adma.201104605).

December 19, 2011: Congratulation on Dr Shengliang Zhong et al's Full Paper entitled " Monodisperse mesocrystals of YF3 and Ce3+, Ln3+ (Ln = Tb3+, Eu3+ and Sm3+) co-activated YF3: shape control synthesis and remarkable fluorescent properties " accepted by Chem. Eur. J. (Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, chem.201102840, in press).

December 11, 2011: Congratulations on Minrui Gao selected as "2011 Academic Award for Doctoral Degree Candidates by Chinese Ministry of Education".

December 11, 2011: Congraulations on Dr. Huai-Ping Cong’s doctoral dissertation selected as "2011 TOP 30 Best Doctoral Dissertation in Anhui Province".

December 2, 2011: Congratulation on Ping Chen et al's Full Article entitled "Nitrogen-Doped Graphene/ZnSe Nanocomposites: Hydrothermal Synthesis and Their Enhanced Electrochemical and Photocatalytic Activities" accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2011, 5, nn-2011-04191x, in press). 

November 24, 2011: Congratulation on Chun-Hua Zhu et al's Communication entitled "In situ Controlled Synthesis of Thermosensitive Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)/Au Nanocomposite Hydrogels by g-Radiation for Catalytic Application" accepted by Small (Small 2011, 7, smll.201102060, in press). .

November 22, 2011: Congratulation on Dr. Yuxue Zhou et al's full paper entitled "Sacrificial Templating Synthesis of Hematite Nanochains from [Fe18S25](TETAH)14 Nanoribbons: Their Magnetic, Electrochemical and Photocatalytic Properties" accepted by Chem. Eur. J. (Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 10.1002/chem.201102736, in press).

November 8, 2011: Dr Hongbin Yao et al's work on elastomeric conductors has been highlighted with title "Elastomeric conductors: A silver connection " by NPG Asia Materials.
http://www.natureasia.com/asia-materials/highlight.php?id=997

October 26, 2011: Congratulation on Chuan-Ling Zhang et al's Communication entitled "Controlled Assemblies of Gold Nanorods in PVA Nanofiber Matrix as Flexible Free-Standing SERS Substrates by Electrospinning" accepted by Small (Small 2011, 7, small.201101844, in press).

October 21, 2011: Congraulations on Dr. Shaofeng Chen's doctoral dissertation selected as "2011 CAS TOP 100 Best Doctoral Dissertation".

October 20, 2011: Congraulations on Minrui Gao et al's paper was selected as Back Cover. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/jm/c1jm13517a

October 19, 2011: Jian-Wei Liu won the Second Award of the 12th National University Students "Challenge Cup" Contest.

October 11, 2011: Hai-Wei Liang and Chun-Hua Cui won the Jiaxi Lu Excellent Award for Outstanding Graduate Students. Congratulations!

October 10, 2011: Hai-Wei Liang and Hong-Bin Yao received "The Special Prize of the CAS's President Scholarship for Postgraduate Student".

October 10, 2011: Congratulations on the acceptance of Jun Jiang et al's Chapter entitled "Amorphous Calcium Carbonate: Synthesis and Transformation" accepted (Chapter in “Bioinspiration: from Understanding to Fabrication”, Edited by Xiangyang Liu, 2011, Spinger).

September 30, 2011: Congratulation on Chunhua Cui et al's Chapter entitled "Template directed synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles of anisotropic shapes" accepted (Chapter 10 in “Complex-Shaped Metal Nanoparticles”, Edited by Tapan Sau and Andrey L. Rogach, 2011, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim).

September 26, 2011: Congratulation on Weihong Xu et al's Full Article entitled "Conducting Performance of Individual Cu@C Coaxial Nanocable as Interconnects" accepted by Small (Small 2011, 7, smll.201101445, in press). 

September 20, 2011: Congratulation on Haiwei Liang et al's Full Article entitled "Highly Active Carbonaceous Nanofibers: A Versatile Scaffold for Constructing Multifunctional Free-Standing Membranes" accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2011, 5, nn-2011-02789f, in press). 

September 19, 2011: Congratulation on Hongbin Yao et al's Full paper entitled "An investigation of zirconium(IV)-glycine(CP-2) hybrid complex in bovine serum albumin protein matrix under varying conditions" accepted by J. Mater. Chem. (J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, JM-ART-07-2011-013647, in press).

September 14, 2011: Congratulation on Weitang Yao et al's Full paper entitled "Self-Catalytic Synthesis of Hierarchical VN/C Superconducting Nanocomposites" accepted by RSC Advances (RSC Advances 2011, 1, RA-ART-07-2011-000492, in press).

September 13, 2011: Congratulation on Fengjia Fan et al's Communication entitled "Colloidal Synthesis of Cu2CdSnSe4 Nanocrystals and Hot-Pressing to Enhance the Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit" accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, ja-2011-07159j, in press).

September 6, 2011: Congratulation on Min-Rui Gao et al's Full paper entitled "One-Pot Synthesis of Hierarchical Magnetite Nanochain Assemblies with Complex Building Units in Polyol and Their Application for Water Treatment" accepted by J. Mater. Chem. (J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, JM-ART-07-2011-013517, invited paper, Theme Issue, in press).

August 18, 2011: Congratulation on Ping Yang et al's Full paper entitled "Synthesis of Fe3O4@PFR Core-Shell Nanospheres Loaded with Au Nanoparticles as Magnetic Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Nanoprobes for Detection of Thiols in Living Cells" accepted by Chem. Eur. J. (Chem. Eur. J. 2011,17, chem.201102188, in press).

August 5, 2011: Congratulation on Minrui Gao et al's Invited Review paper entitled "Solution-Based Synthesis and Design of Late Transition Metal Chalcogenide Materials for Oxygen Reduction Reaction" accepted by Small (Small 2011, 7, smll.201101573, in press).

July 28, 2011: Congratulations on Liheng Wu et al's paper entitled "Unique Lamellar Mesostructured Sodium/Potassium Iron Oxide Nanosheets: Facile Microwave-assisted Synthesis, Magnetic and Electrochemical Properties" accepted by Chemistry of Materials (Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, cm-2011-013736, in press).

July 20, 2011: Congratulations on Kai Wang et al's paper entitled "Templating Synthesis of Uniform Bi2Te3 Nanowires with High Aspect Ratio in Triethylene glycol (TEG) and Their Thermoelectric Performance" accepted by J. Mater. Chem.(J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, JM-ART-05-2011-012384).

July 20, 2011: Congratulations on Mei Feng et al entitled "Ultralong Silver Trimolybdate Nanowires: Synthesis, Phase Transformation, Stability, and Their Photocatalytic, Optical and Electrical Properties" accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2011, 5, nn-2011-02296h).

July 8, 2011: Congratulations on Haiwei Liang et al's paper entitled "Robust and Highly Efficient Free-Standing Carbonaceous Nanofibers Membranes for Water Purification" accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2011, in press. adfm.201100983).

June 21, 2011: Congratulations on Fengjia Fan et al's entitled "Fluorescent bracelet-like Cu@cross-linked poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) microrings by hydrothermal process" accepted by RSC Advances (RSC Advances 2011, 1, in press. RA-ART-05-2011-000227).

June 15, 2011: Congratulations on Lifeng Chen and Haiwei Liang et al's paper entitled "Synthesis of Attapulgite Clay@Carbon Nanocomposite Adsorbent by Hydrothermal Carbonization Process and Their Application for Removal of Toxic Metal Ions from Water" accepted by Langmuir (Langmuir 2011, 27, in press. la-2011-017165).

June 11, 2011: Congratulations on Ping Chen and Haiwei Liang et al paper entitled "Carbonaceous Nanofiber Membrane Functionalized by beta-Cyclodextrins for Molecular Filtration" accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2011, nn-2011-01719g, in press).

May 27, 2011: Jianwei Liu et al win the Principal Award of The Fourth Challenge Cup of Anhui Province.

May 31, 2011: Congratulations on Hongbin Yao's paper entitled "Macroscale Elastomeric Conductors Generated from Hydrothermally Synthesized Metal-Polymer Hybrid Nanocable Sponges " accepted by Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater. 2011, adma.201102002, in press).

May 3, 2011: Congratulations on Chun-Hua Cui's paper entitled "Large Scale Restructuring of Porous Pt-Ni Nanoparticle Tubes for Methanol Oxidation: A Highly Reactive, Stable, and Restorable Fuel Cell Catalyst" accepted by Chemical Science (Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, DOI:10.1039/C1SC00233C, Edge Article).

April 21, 2011: Chun-Hua et al's paper entitled "Remarkable Enhancement of Electrocatalytic Activity by Tuning the Interface of Pd-Au Bimetallic Nanoparticle Tubes" accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2011, 5, nn-2011-010602)

April 18, 2011: Lei Liu et al's paper entited "Bio-inspired Crystallization of CaCO3 Coatings on Electrospun Cellulose Acetate Fiber Scaffolds and Corresponding CaCO3 Microtube Networks" accepted by Langmuir (Langmuir 2011, la-2011-00738n).

April 8, 2011: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu interviewed by Chemistry World. "Chemistry shines in national award lists".
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/China/Issues/2011/Jan-Mar/ChemistryShinesNationalAwardLists.asp

April 6, 2011: Professor Shu-Hong Yu has recently been appointed as a CrystEngComm Associate Editor, with his Editorial Office opening 1st May, 2011.
http://blogs.rsc.org/ce/2011/04/06/professor-shu-hong-yu-appointed-as-associate-editor/

March 15, 2011: Congratulations on Jianwei Liu selected as one of the winners of "CAS Special Grant for Postgraduate Research, Innovation and Practice". http://www.caspe.ac.cn/tzgg/201012/t20101231_3052840.html

March 8-11, 2011: Prof. Yu was invited to visit National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST Kansai, Osaka) and gave an invited lecture "Engineering Carbon Materials from the Hydrothermal Carbonization Process of Biomass" on The 1st International Symposium on Advanced Nanostructured Materials for Clean Energy, organized by AIST Kansai and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

March 4, 2011: Congratulations on Dr Bo Hu's Article entitled "Selective Chromogenic Detection of Thiol-Containing Biomolecules Using Carbonaceous Nanospheres Loaded with Silver Nanoparticles as Carrier" accepted by ACS Nano (ACS Nano 2011, 5, in press. nn-2011-003053).

Feb. 1, 2011: Congratulations on Minrui Gao's Full Article entitled "Selective Synthesis of Fe7Se8 Polyhedra with Exposed High-Index Facets and Fe7Se8 Nanorods by Solvothermal Process in a Binary Solution and Their Collective Intrinsic Properties" accepted by Chemistry - A European Journal (Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, in press. chem.201002203).

Jan. 29, 2011: Congratulations on Ping Yang et al's Article entitled "Phenol Formaldehyde Resin Nanoparticles Loaded with CdTe Quantum Dots: A Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Probe for Optical Visual Detection of Copper (II) Ions" accepted by ACS Nano(ACS Nano 2011, 23, in press. nn-2010-03352b.R1).

Jan. 26, 2011: Congratulations on Hongbin Yao et al's Review entitled "Hierarchical assembly of micro-/nano- building blocks: bio-inspired rigid structural functional materials" accepted by Chemical Society Reviews (Chem. Soc. Rev. 2011, Invited Review, CS-TRV-09-2010-000121).

Jan. 20, 2011: Hongbin Yao has been selected to receive a Fellowship to attend the
conference, “Developing Global Sustainability – China/U.S. Partnerships,” to be held at the
University of Michigan on May 20 and 21, 2011. Congratulations!

Jan. 18, 2011:  Congratulations on Min-Rui Gao et al's Communication entitled "A Methanol-tolerant Cathode Catalyst Pt/CoSe2 Nanobelts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs) accepted by Angewandte Chemie  (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, anie.201003261).

Jan. 14, 2011: Congratulations on Prof. Yu's team awarded as the awardee of 2010 China National Natural Science Award granted by Chinese government.

Jan. 12, 2011: Congratulations on Hai-Wei Liang et al's Communication entitled "Free-standing Pt Nanowire Membrane as Highly Stable Electrocatalyst for Oxygen-Reduction Reaction" accepted by Adv. Mater. as VIP paper (Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, in press. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201004377).

Jan. 10, 2011: Congratulations on Min-Rui Gao selected as "Academic Award for Doctoral Degree Candidates by USTC".

Jan. 5, 2011: Congratulations on the acceptance of the paper by Wei-Ping Xu et al entitled "Facile Synthesis of Silver@Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites and Their Enhanced Antibacterial Properties" in J. Mater. Chem. (J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21 DOI:10.1039/C0JM03376F).

Dec. 20, 2010: Congraulations on our phD candidates Hai-Wei Liang, Chun-Hua Cui, Yang Zhao selected as winners of "HK Qiushi Scholarship".

Dec. 18, 2010: Congraulations on our phD candidates Hong-Bin Yao, Yang Lu selected as winners of "Zhuliyuehua Scholarship".

Dec. 16, 2010: Professor Shu-Hong Yu (University of Science and Technology of China) gave his Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Award lecture at the "Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials Synthesis and Assembly" session at Pacifichem on 16th December. His talk was entitled "Bio-inspired Synthesis of Functional Inorganic Materials and Hybrids". (http://blogs.rsc.org/cs/2010/12/23/emerging-investigator-delivers-award-lecture-at-pacifichem/)

Dec. 14, 2010: Congratulations on Dr. Haisheng Qian won the Award for Materials Science by "Scopus Seeking Future Star of Science".

Dec. 8, 2010: Congraulations on Dr. Huaiping Cong's doctoral dissertation selected as "2010 CAS TOP 50 Best Doctoral Dissertation".

Oct. 14, 2010: Congratulations on Haiwei Liang selected as "Academic Award for Doctoral Degree Candidates by Chinese Ministry of Education".

October 7, 2010: Congratulations on Hongbin Yao et al's Communication entitled "Artificial Nacre-Like Bionanocomposite Films with High Performances: Self-assembly of Chitosan-Montmorillonite Hybrid Building Blocks" accepted by Angewandte Chemie (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, anie.201004748).

September 21, 2010: Congratulations on the acceptance of the paper by Yi Wang, Hongbin Yao et al, entitled "Ont-pot facile decoration of CdSe Quantum Dots on n-Type Graphene Sheets: New Florescent n-Type Graphene-CdSe Nanocomposites", accepted by J. Mater. Chem. ( J. Mater. Chem. 20, JM-ART-07-2010-002223).

September 15, 2010: Congratulations on the acceptance of the paper by Jun Jiang et al, Confined Crystallization of High-Magnesian Calcite from Compact Mg-ACC Precursor Tablets and Its Biological Implications, accepted by CrystEngComm (CrystEngComm 2010, 12, CE-ART-04-2010-000153).

August 26, 2010: Congratulations on Chunhua Cui et al’s Communication entitled "Ternary Heterostructured Nanoparticle Tubes: New Dual Catalyst and Its Synergistic Enhancement Effects for O2/H2O2 Reduction" accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, anie.201003261).

August 23, 2010: Congratulations on Yang Zhao et al’s Communication entitled “Templating Synthesis of Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanospheres with Preloading Doxorubicin for Biomedical Application” accepted by Adv. Mater. (Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, in press. adma.201002395).

August 15-20, 2010: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to attend Gordon Research Conference on Biomineralization (Frontiers of Science) held in Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH) and he gave an invited lecture entitled “Bioinspired Synthesis of Nanostructures, Nanocomposites and Their Functionalities”.

July 30, 2010: Congratulations on Yang Zhao et al’s Communication entitled “Synthesis of Superparamagnetic CaCO3 Mesocrystals for Multistage Delivery in Cancer Therapy” accepted by Small (Small 2010, 6, in press. smll.201000903).

July 29, 2010: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu has been awarded the prestigious Roy-Somiya Medal for the year 2010 in recognition of his outstanding and highly innovative contribution to the field of hydrothermal and solvothermal research. The selection was done by the honourable Council of the International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association (ISHA) under the category of young scientist award below the age group of 45 years. Prof. Yu gave his acceptance award address after the ceremony on ISHA 2010 Conference held in China National Convention Center.

July 22, 2010: Congratulations on Min-Rui Gao et al's full article entitled "In situ controllable synthesis of magnetite nanocrystals/CoSe2 hybrid nanobelts and their enhanced catalytic performance" accepted by J. Mater. Chem.(J. Mater. Chem. 2010, 20, in press).

July 21, 2010: Congratulations on Yang Lu et al's full article entitled "Magnetic alloy nanorings loaded with gold nanoparticles: synthesis and applications as multimodal imaging contrast agents" accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2010, 20, in press. Special Issue of “Nanomaterials Research by Chinese Scienists”.

June 18, 2010: Congratulations on Haiwei Liang et al's Communication entitled "Carbonaceous Nanofiber Membranes for Selective Filtration and Separation of Nanoparticles" accepted by Adv. Mater. (Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, in press, adma.201001863).

June 12, 2010:  Congratulations on Meng Zhang et al's full article entitled "Selective Synthesis of Zn1-xMnxSe Nanobelts and Nanotubes from [Zn1-xMnxSe](DETA)0.5 Nanbelts in Solution (x = 0-0.15), Their EPR and Optical Properties" accepted by Langmuir (Langmuir 2010, 26, In press. la-2010-01595n).

June 3, 2010: Congratulations on Jianwei Liu et al's full article entitled "Mesostructured Assemblies of Ultrathin Superlong Tellurium Nanowires and Their Photoconductivity" accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.(J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, In press. ja-2009-10871s).

April 8, 2010: Congratulations on the paper entitled "Hierarchical Hollow Co9S8 Microspheres: Solvothermal Synthesis, and Their Magnetic, Electrochemical and Electrocatalytic Properties", by Yu-Xue Zhou, Hong-Bin Yao, Yi Wang, Hui-Li Liu et al accepted by Chem. Eur. J.  (Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, in press. 10.1002/chem.200903263). 

April 6, 2010: Congratulations on the paper entitled "Rapid Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Uniform Ultralong Te Nanowires, Optical Property, and Chemical Stability", by Jian-Wei Liu, Fang Chen, Meng Zhang, Hao Qi, Chuan-Ling Zhang et al accepted by Langmuir (Langmuir 2010, 26, In press).

April 1, 2010: Congratulations on the paper entitled "Hierarechical Silver Indium Tungsten Oxide Mesocrystals with Morphology-, Pressure-, and Temperature-dependent Lumniescent Properties" Bo Hu, Liheng Wu, Zhi Zhao, Meng Zhang et al accepted by Nano Research (Nano Research 2010, 3, In press).  

March 18, 2010: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu won the 2010 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Award. http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cs/News/2010/award_winners_2010.asp

March 9, 2010: Congratulations on the paper entitled "Direct Fabrication of Optical Switch Patterns on Self-assemblied Hybrid Films of Graphene Oxide/Titania Nanosheets by Photocatalytic Reduction" by Hong-Bin Yao, Li-Heng Wu, Chun-Hua Cui, Hai-Yu Fang et al accepted by J. Mater. Chem. (J. Mater. Chem. 2010, 20, JM-ART-01-2010-000094.R1, In press).

Feb. 26, 2010: Congratulations on the paper entitled "Spontaneous Formation of Hierarchically Structured Curly Films of Nickel Carbonate Hydrate through Drying" by Xiao-Hui Guo et al accepted by Langmuir (Langmuir 2010, 22, In press,la-2010-002308).

Feb. 4, 2010: Congratulations! Hongbin Yao has been selected as one of outstanding young researchers to attend The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings(60th）to be held from June 27-July 2, 2010 in beautiful town Lindau, Germany.

January 28, 2010: Congratulations on the paper entitled "Large Scale Photochemical Synthesis of M@TiO2 Nanocomposites (M = Ag, Pd, Au, Pt), Optical Property, CO Oxidation Performance, and Their Antibacterial Application" by Shao-Feng Chen, Jian-Ping Li, Weiping Xu, Yang Lu, Shu-Hong Yu* accepted by Nano Research (Nano Research 2010, In press, NARE-D-09-00225R1).

January 18, 2010: Congratulatons on the review paper entitled "Controlled Synthesis of One-Dimensional Inorganic Nanostructures Using Pre-existing One-dimensional Nanostructures as Templates" by Haiwei Liang, Shuo Liu and Shu-Hong Yu* accepted by Adv. Mater.(Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, DOI: 10.1002/adma.200904391, Review, In press).

January 8, 2010: Congratulatons on our new paper entitled "Bio-inspired, Strong, Transparent and Functional Layered Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Films" by Hong-Bin Yao, Hai-Yu Fang, Zhi-Hua Tan, Li-Heng Wu, Shu-Hong Yu* accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, in press. anie.200906920)

December 23, 2009: Congratulatons on our new paper entitled "Microwave-assisted synthesis of silver indium tungsten oxide mesocrystals and their selective photocatalytic properties" by Dr Bo Hu and Liheng Wu et al accepted by Chem. Commun.(Chem. Commun. 2010, B921455K, in press)

December 16, 2009: Congratulatons on our new Research News Article entitled "Noble Metal Nano/microcables with Isolating Sheath: Synthetic Methodologies and Their Application as Interconnects" by Min-Rui Gao, Wei-Hong Xu, Hong-Bin Yao et al accepted by Adv. Mater. for Special Issue of USTCers (Adv. Mater. 2010, Research News. Special Issue of USTCers. adma.200903805. In press).

December 4, 2009: Congratulatons on the paper entitled "Making Disordered Nanowires Ordered: Spontaneous Formation of Highly Aligned Ultralong Ag Nanowire Films at Oil-Water-Air Interface" by Hongyan Shi, Bo Hu et al accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Making Disordered Nanowires Ordered: Spontaneous Formation of Highly Aligned Ultralong Ag Nanowire Films at Oil-Water-Air Interface, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2010, adfm.200901668, In press).

December 2, 2009: Congratulations on our new paper on synthesis of porous cadmium telluride and tellurium architectures through thermal decomposition based on a hydrazine-cadmium tellurite hybrid precursor by Hong-Bin Yao, Xiao-Bo Li, Si-Yuan Ai et al. (Hydrazine-Cadmium Tellurite Hybrid Microcrystals: An Efficient Precursor to Porous Cadmium Telluride and Tellurium Architectures Through Thermal Decomposition, Nano Research 2010, NARE-D-09-00196R2, In press.

November 18, 2009: Congratulations on Chunhua’s new electrochemical deposition approach for controlled synthesis of a family of high quality free-standing noble metal sub-micron tubes composed of nanoparticles in polar aprotic solvent accepted by Chem. Commun. (“A general approach to electrochemical deposition of high quality free-standing noble metal (Pd, Pt, Au, Ag) sub-micron tubes composed of nanoparticles in polar aprotic solvent”, Chem. Commun. 2009, B920705H, In press.

November 17, 2009: Congratulations on our paper entitled "Large-Scale Synthesis of Flexible Free-Standing SERS Substrates with High Sensitivity: Electrospun PVA Nanofibers Embedded with Controlled Alignment of Silver Nanoparticles" by Dian He, Bo Hu, Qiao-Feng Yao, Kan Wang et al accepted by ACS Nano (“Large-Scale Synthesis of Flexible Free-Standing SERS Substrates with High Sensitivity: Electrospun PVA Nanofibers Embedded with Controlled Alignment of Silver Nanoparticles"", ACS Nano 2010, In press).

November 12, 2009: Congratulations on our new Book Chapter by Yang Lu et al, entitled “Polymeric/Inorganic Nanocomposites: Fabrication and Applications in Multiple Bioimaging", has been accepted to be published in “ Physical properties of polymer Nanocomposites”, Woodhead Publisher, U.K, 2010.

October 31, 2009: Congratulations on our review paper entitled "Small organic molecule templating synthesis of semiconducting organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials" by Hong-Bin Yao et al accepted by Nanoscale(“Small organic molecule templating synthesis of semiconducting organicinorganic hybrid nanomaterials", Nanoscale 2009, Invited Review, In press).

October 27, 2009: Congratulation on the paper by Yang Lu, Yang Zhao, Le Yu et al accepted by Adv. Mater. ("Hydrophilic Co@Au Yolk/Shell Nanospheres: Synthesis, Assembly and Application for Gene Delivery", Adv. Mater. 2009, in press).

October 14, 2009: Congratulation on the paper by Meng Zhang, Ce Shi et al accepted by Chem. Mater. ("Mn-Substituted [Zn1-xMnxSe](DETA)0.5 (x = 0-0.3) Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Nanobelts: Synthesis, EPR spectroscopy, and Their Temperature- and Pressure-dependent Optical Properties", Chem. Mater. 2009, in press).

October 6, 2009: Congratulations on our review paper entitled "Engineering Carbon Materials from the Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC) Process of Biomass" by Bo Hu, Kan Wang, Liheng Wu et al, which has been accepted by Adv. Mater. ("Engineering Carbon Materials from the Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC) Process of Biomass", Adv. Mater. 2009, in press, Special Issue of New Carbon Materials).

September 18, 2009: Congratulations on the discovery of a new family of lamellar transition metal molybdate-CTA mesostructured composites (Metal = Ni, Co) by Hongbin Yao, Xiaobao Li et al, which has been accepted by Chem. Commun. ("Lamellar Transition Metal Molybdate-CTA Mesostructured Composites (Metal = Ni, Co): One-pot Synthesis and Their Application in Treatment of Acid Fuchsine", Chem. Commun. 2009, B914329G , in press).

September 15, 2009: Congratulations on the paper by Le Yu, Yang Lu et al accepted by Small ("Rare earth oxide nanocrystals induce autophagy in HeLa cells", Small 2009, smll.200901714, in press).

September 3, 2009: Congratulations on our new paper by Huai-Ping Cong, Jia-Jun He and Yang Lu accepted by Small as “VIP paper" (Water Soluble Magnetic Functionalized Graphene: In-situ Synthesis and Magnetic Resounce Imaging Application, Small 2009, in press).

July 6, 2009:  Our first Research News article entitled "Polymer Controlled Crystallization of Unique Mineral Superstructures " by Shaofeng et al  is just accepted by Adv. Mater.

May 12, 2009: The paper on discovery of unique ultrathin lamellar mesostructured CoSe2 nanobelts by Mingrui Gao et al has been accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.

May 11, 2009: Congratulations on the paper by Haiwei Liang et al has been published and recognized as “Advances in Advance” (Ultrathin Te Nanowires: An Excellent Platform for Controlled Synthesis of Ultrathin Platinum and Palladium Nanowires/Nanotubes with Very High Aspect Ratio, Adv. Mater. 2009, 21(18), 1850-1854).  

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/10008336/home/2089_aia.html

April 25, 2009: Congratulations on the invited paper by Li-Yuan Fan et al has been published as insider cover “Themed Issue on Metal Oxide Nanostructures” (ZnO@Co hybrid nanotube arrays growth from electrochemical deposition: structural, optical, photocatalytic and magnetic properties, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2009, 11(19), 3711-3717).

April 3, 2009: Congratulation on the paper by Weihong Xu et al has been recognized as VIP Paper, and highlighted by Materials Views. Featured by Frost & Sullivan Inside R& D Alert: http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/segment-toc.pag?segid=D704-00-CA-00-00 “Silver Nanowires Coated with Carbon Protective Layer” (Conducting Performance of Individual Ag@C Coaxial Nanocable: Ideal Building Blocks for Interconnects in Nanoscale Devices, Small2009, 5(4), 460-465).

January 30, 2009: Congratulation on the Feature Article by Qiao Zhang et al has been recognized as “Top Ten Articles” (Recent Advances in Oriented Attachment Growth and Synthesis of Functional Materials: Concept, Evidence, Mechanism, and Its Future, J. Mater. Chem. 2009, 19(2), 191-207, Inside Cover): 

http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/jm/top10.asp