Lab News

Oct 2023:

• Special Thanks to DOE for supporting our research through the FAIR program
• Congratulations on Kang for publishing his paper on ACS Material Letters
• Congratulations to Gonto Johns on getting the University Graduate Fellowship 
• Welcome Claire Baeriwyl and Miachel Massey in joining our lab as undergraduate researchers

May 2023:

• Congratulations on the successful graduation of Audrey, Nini, Vayle, and Dr. Sabrina Younan 
• Congratulations to Audrey on getting the NSF GRFP. 
• Congratulations to Hongxing Kang on getting the Jenkins Award and Best Ph.D. Research Award (2023). 
• Congratulations on Ke's paper published at ACS Nano (collaboration paper) 

Jan 2023:

• Congratulations on our collaboration work with Prof. Yong Yan(SDSU) getting supported by DOE
• Congratulations on Nick's NADH reduction work being accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• Congratulations on Sabrina's Zn single-atom confinement work being accepted by ACS Nano
• Congratulations on Audrey Washington in getting accepted to 7 out of her 8 graduate school applications, including Caltech. 

Oct 2022:

• Congratulations on Audrey Washington in getting the Winifred Burks-Houck Undergraduate Leadership Award from NOBCChE and the best presentation award from SACNAS national diversity in STEM conference 
• Welcome, Jackie Johnson and Chris Turchiano joining our lab as new graduate students. 

Aug 2022:

• Congratulations on Nicholas Williams for a successful Ph.D. defense. 
• Thanks for NSF CHE-2154837 for supporting our research
• Congratulations on Zhida for his Cu on 1T-MoS₂ work getting accepted into ACS catalysis !!!
• Congratulations on Sabrina for her paper getting accepted into Adv. Mater. Interface !!

Oct 2021:

• Welcome, Gonto Johns joining our lab as a Ph.D. student !!!
• Congratulations Audrey Washington on becoming an IMSD scholar 
• Congratulations Audrey Washington on getting the ACS scholar fellowship, Joi-Weeks fellowship, and Tom Regan Fellowship

August 2020:

• Congratulations on Zhida in getting his Ni size dependence work accepted in Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. !!!
• Congratulations on our collaboration paper with Prof. Huang at Marquette University being accepted in Nature Commun. !!!
• Congratulations on our collaboration paper with Prof. Ren at Princeton University being accepted in Joule!!!

Mar 2020:

• Congratulations to Sabrina for her nomination as a finalist for the Young Chemist Award by Metrohm USA!
  https://youngchemistaward.metrohmusa.com/2020-winners/
  

Jan 2020:

• Happy New Year !!! Congrats on Fan's paper getting accepted in Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. 

Nov 2019:

• Dr. Gu gave a invited talk at the UC San Diego Sustainable Power and Energy Center.

Oct 2019:

• Welcome Hongxing Kang from Lanzhou University joined our lab as a first-year graduate student. 

Sep 2019:

• Dr. Jing Gu gave a talk at CSU-Long Beach.
• Our Comments paper is accepted in Energy & Environmental Science(10.1039/C9EE02592H). Congrats !!!
• SDSU news highlighted our research work as "Mimiking Photosynthsis to make fuel green and affordable."

Aug 2019:

• Our collaboration work with Prof. Shirley Meng's group was published in Nature !!!
• Dr. Gu served as a section chair at the ACS meeting. Sabrina Younan, Maggie Patrick, Nicholas Williams and Fan Yang gave talks at ACS meeting.
• Our undergraduates, Waltteri Vakki, Michael Fairchild, and Karley Hahn graduated from SDSU. Congrats !!!

May 2019:

• NSF highlight our research work "4 awesome discoveries you probably did not hear about episode 28th"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xTaKzcvh_s&feature=youtu.be).
• Princeton New highlighted our collaboration work with the Prof. Jason Ren's group at Princeton "Researchers using sunlight to pull hydrogen from waste water".
• Dr. Zhou's work is accepted in Dalton Trans, Congrats Dr. Zhou !!!

Mar 2019:

• Yichao Huang's paper is accepted at Nature Communication, Congrats Yichao !!!
• Waltteri Vakki's paper is accpeted at Energy & Environmental Science, Congrats Waltteri !!!!
• Our research work is highlighted in SDSU news "SDSU research suggest process for lowering cost of hydrogen fuels".

Jan 2019:

• Fan's paper is accepted at Adv. Mater. Interface. Congrats !!! Fan !!!
• Nicholas Williams, Maggie Patrick and Dr. Gu attended the CSUPERB meeting.

Oct 2018:

• Zhida Li from Northeast Petroleum University Join our lab as a visiting student.
• Zunjian Ke from Wuhan University join our lab as a visiting student, welcome !!!
• Prof. Zhou's manuscript is accepted at International Journal of Hydrogen Energy !!! Congrats !!!

Aug 2018:

• Dr. Gu organized an energy and fuel section at ACS in Boston !!! 

June 2018:

• Dr. Gu attended the NIGMS mentoring workshop at the Kansas City.
• Michael and Sabrina got the Summer Undergraduate Research Program support! Congrats !!!
• Yichao Huang's manuscript is accepted at the Advanced Energy Materials !!! Congrats to Yichao !!!
• Prof. Zhou's manuscript is accepted at ChemcatChem!!! Congrats to Prof. Zhou !!!

March 2018: 

• Dr. Gu is invited to give a talk at the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences Foundation(AEHS).

Feb 2018:

• Nicholas Williams, Waltteri Vakki, Michael Fairchild and Sabrina Younan attended the SRS meeting at SDSU. Michael and Waltteri got the Undergraduate Research Excellent Award. Congrats !!!

Jan 2018:

• Dr. Gu attended the GRC-Solar Fuel meeting.

Dec 2017:

• We welcome Prof. Zhou Yinghua, a visiting professor joining our group.

Oct 2017:

• Our group research is highlighted at CNBC sustainable energy TV shows: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/13/hydrogen-is-becoming-a-big-deal-part-two.html
• Dr. Gu attend the FACSS meeting as a section chair 
• We welcome Dr. Yang Fan and Yichao Huang, who is a visiting student from Tsinghua Univerisity joining our group. 

Sep 2017:

• Congratulations to Nicholas Williams to win the ARCS scholarship !!!
• Congratulations to Nicholas Williams to win the Annual Graduate Research Awards !!! 

June 2017:

• Our group received our first federal grant from NSF! Thanks to NSF for the kind support!
• Dr. Gu attended the ECS meeting in New Orleans 

May 2017:

• Paper published: Tony's first manuscript published at ChemSusChem.

April 2017:

• Dr. Gu attended the April 2017 ACS meeting in San Francisco.

March 2017:

• Our graduate students Nicholas and Tony attended the Student Research Symposium this year and presented their research.

• Dr. Gu was invited to the Association for Environmental Health and Science Foundation conference in March 2017.

February 2017:

• Dr. Gu was awarded GREW award in February 2017.

January 2017:

• In January 2017, Dr. Gu’s research paper was accepted by Nature Energy!

November 2016:

• In November 2016 we were awarded a university grant from San Diego State University