• 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 21, 2020: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Chemistry Frontiers.

    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).

    July 8, 2020: Congratulations to Qing-Fang Guan, Zhang-Chi Ling, Zi-Meng Han et al for their innovative work on fabrication of ultra-strong, ultra-tough, transparent and sustainable nanocomposite films for plastic substitute. The Article entitled "Bimetallic nickel-molybdenum/tungsten nanoalloys for high-efficiency hydrogen oxidation catalysis in alkaline electrolytes" by Matter (Matter 2020, 3(4), 1308-1317).
    June 16, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Letter entitled "Sustainable wood-based hierarchical solar steam generator: a biomimetic design with reduced vaporization enthalpy of waterr" by Nano Letters (Nano Lett. 2020, 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01088).
    May 30, 2020: Prof. Yu received the Second National Medal for Innovation.
    April 8, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Real-time visualization of solid-phase ion migration kinetics on nanowire monolayer" by JACS (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, ja-2020-02137v).
    March 26, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Research News entitled "Emerging Bio-Inspired Artificial Woods" by Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater. 2020, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202001086).
    March 16, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Protecting Copper Oxidation State via Intermediate Confinement for Selective CO2 Electroreduction to C2+ Fuels" by JACS (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, ja-2020-01699z).
    March 2, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Radial Nanowire Assemblies under Rotating Magnetic Field Enabled Efficient Charge Separation" by Nano Letters. Congratulations to Jing-Long et al for their findings on radial nanowires assemblies under rotating magnetic field enabled efficient charge separation (Nano Lett. 2020, nl-2020-00408c).
    February 26, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Highly Disordered Cobalt Oxide Nanostructure Induced by Sulfur Incorporation for Efficient Overall Water Splitting" by Nano Energy (Nano Energy 2020, 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104652). 
    February 19, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Origin of Batch Hydrothermal Fluid Behavior and Its Influence on Nanomaterial Synthesis" by Matter. Congraulations to Zhilong, Zhiyuan et al for their innovative findings on the origin of batch hydrothermal fluid behavior and its Influence on nanomaterial synthesis (Matter 2020, MATTER-D-19-00497). 
    February 12, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Research Article entitled "Tumor microenvironment-activatable iron-doxorubicin preloaded amorphous CaCO3 nanoformulation triggers ferroptosis in target tumor cell" by Science Advances. Congraulations to Chen-Cheng Xue, Meng-Huan Li, Yang Zhao et al for their innovative findings (Sci. Adv. 2020, aax1346-19-00497). 
    February 11, 2020: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Research Article entitled "Lightweight, tough, and sustainable cellulose nanofiber-derived bulk structural materials with low thermal expansion coefficient" by Science Advances. Congraulations to Qing-Fang Guan, Huai-Bin Yang, Zi-Meng Han et al for their innovative work on producing sustainable bulk materials with excellent performance (Science Advances 2020, aaz1114). 
    December 27, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Research Article entitled "High-Curvature Transition-Metal Chalcogenide Nanostructures with a Pronounced Proximity Effect Enable Fast and Selective CO2 Electroreduction" by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201912348). 
    December 10, 2019: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Nano Letters.
    December 2, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our article entitled "Regioselective magnetization in semiconducting nanorods" accepted by Nature Nanotechnology. Congratulations to Taotao, Yi, Xiaoqing et al for their persistent and hard work on this project, where we discovered a double-buffer-layer engineering strategy to achieve regioselective nucleation of superparamagnetic nanodomains at one end of semiconducting nanorod (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2019, NNANO-18071503C).
    November 22, 2019: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
    November 13, 2019: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Advisory Editorial Board of ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.
    November 4, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Temperature-invariant superelastic and fatigue resistant carbon nanofiber aerogels" by Advanced Materials. Congratulations to Chao Li et al for their developing a new route for synthesis of temperature-invariant superelastic and fatigue resistant carbon nanofiber aerogels (Adv. Mater. 2019, adma.201904331).
    October 29, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "A general and programmable synthesis of graphene based composite aerogels by a melamine-sponge-templated hydrothermal process" by CCS Chemistry. Congratulations to Jin Ge, Hong-Wu Zhu et al for their realizing a new general and programmable approach for synthesis of a family of graphene based composite aerogels (CCS Chem. 2019, CCSC-2019-0073).

    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).

    August 13, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Scale-up Synthesis of Amorphous NiFeMo Oxides and Their Rapid Surface Reconstruction for Superior Oxygen Evolution Catalysis" by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations to Yu Duan, Zi-You Yu et al (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201909939).
    July 16, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Bioinspired Unidirectional Silk Fibroin-Silver Compound Nanowire Composite Scaffold via Interface-Mediated In Situ Synthesis" by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations to Jingzhe Xue et al (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201907708).
    July 16, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Review Article entitled "Nanowire Genome: A Magic Tool Box for One-Dimensional Nanostructures" by Adv. Mater. Congratulations to Zhen He and Yuan Yang (Adv. Mater. 2019, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201902807).

    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

    June 6, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Bioinspired cellulose-based hierarchical helical macrofibers" by Natl. Sci. Rev. Congratulations to Huai-Ling Gao, Ran Zhao et al for their developing a new route for producing bioinspired cellulose-based hierarchical helical macrofibers(Natl. Sci. Rev. 2019, NSR_MS-2019-146).
    June 3, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Ordered nanostructure enhances electrocatalytic performance by dirrectional micro-magnetic field" by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations to Qing-Xia Chen, Ying-Huan Liu et al for their discovery that ordered nanostructure enhances electrocatalytic performance by dirrectional micro-electric field (JACS 2019, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03617).
    May 25, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Unconventional CN vacancies suppress iron-leaching in Prussian blue analogue pre-catalyst for boosted oxygen evolution catalysis" by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Zi-You Yu, Yu Duan, Jian-Dang Liu et al for their discovery that unconventional CN vacancies suppress iron-leaching in Prussian blue analogue pre-catalyst for boosted oxygen evolution catalysis (Nat. Commun. 2019, NCOMMS-19-08585B).
    May 14, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Synthesis of PdSx-Mediated Polydymite Heteronanorods and Their Long-Range Activation for Enhanced Water Electroreduction" by Research. Congratulations to Qiang Gao et al for their innovation on synthesis of unique PdSx-mediated polydymite heteronanorods and their long-range activation for enhanced water electroreduction (Research 2019, RESEARCH-D-19-00009R1).
    May 10, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Diatomite derived hierarchical hybrid anode for high performance all-solid-state lithium metal batteries" by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Fei Zhou and Zheng Li et al for their innovation on s of diatomite derived hierarchical hybrid anode for high performance all solid state Li metal batteries (Nat. Commun. 2019, NCOMMS-18-35402D).
    April 29, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Biomimetic carbon tube aerogel enables super-elasticity and thermal insulation" by Chem. Congratulations to Hui-Juan Zhan, Kai-Jin Wu et al for their innovative work on finding a route for controlled synthesis of biomimetic carbon tube aerogel with super-elasticity and thermal insulation performances (Chem 2019, CHEMJOURNAL-D-19-00185R1).
    April 27, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Switching Co/N/C catalysts for heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis by controllable pyrolysis of cobalt porphyrin" by iScience. Congratulations to Zhen-Yu Wu et al for their developing a new route for controlled synthesis of highly efficient catalysts for heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis (iScience 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.04.032).
    April 26, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Multifunctional Biomimetic Guided Bone Regeneration Membrane" by Matter. Congratulations to Kai-Run Zhang and Huai-Ling Gao et al for their innovative work on multifunctional biomimetic guided bone regeneration membrane (Matter 2019, MATTER-D-19-00024).
    April 25, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Anisotropic and self-healing hydrogels with multi-responsive actuating capability" by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Haili Qian and Tan Zhang et al for fabrication of anisotropic and self-healing hydrogels with impressive multi-responsive actuating capability (Nat. Commun. 2019, NCOMMS-18-37385B).
    April 11-15, 2019: Congratulations on Luan Shi and Dr Jin Ge for winning the Golden Prize of 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, due to their invention of Joule-heated sponge for fast clean-up of viscous crude-oil spill.
    March 22, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Super-Elastic Hard Carbon Nanofiber Aerogels" by Adv. Mater. Congratulations to Zhi-Long Yu and Bing Qin et al for their innovation on super-elastic hard carbon nanofiber aerogels (Adv. Mater. 2019, DOI:10.1002/adma.201900651).
    March 21, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Research Article entitled "Superior biomimetic nacreous bulk nanocomposite materials by a multiscale soft-rigid polymer dual-network interfacial design strategy" by Matter. Congratulations to Si-Ming, Huai-Ling, Xiao-Hao et al for their innovation on a new kind of superior biomimetic nacreous bulk nanocomposite materials by a multiscale soft-rigid polymer dual-network interfacial design strategy (Matter 2019, MATTER-D-18-00031). 
    March 13, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "A Highly Stretchable and Real-Time Healable Supercapacitor" by Adv. Mater. Congratulations to Chuan-Rui and Haili et al for their innovative work on designing a highly stretchable and real-time healable supercapacitor (Adv. Mater. 2019, DOI:10.1002/adma.201900573). 
    January 28, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Research Article entitled "Natural nanofibrous cellulose-derived solid acid catalysts"  by Research. Congratulations to Zhen-Yu, Peng Yin et al for their innovative work on large scale production of natural nanofibrous cellulose-derived solid acid catalysts (Research 2019, RESEARCH-D-18-00085). 
    January 9, 2019: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Mass-production of nanowire-Nylon flexible transparent  smart windows with high-efficiency PM2.5 capture"  by iScience. Congratulations to Weiran Huang et al for their innovative work on large scale production of nanowire-Nylon flexible transparent smart windows with high-efficiency PM2.5 capture (iScience 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.01.014). 
    November 20, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "A general aerosol-assisted biosynthesis of functional bulk nanocomposites"  by National Science Review. Congratulations to Qingfang Guan et al for their innovative work on designing and developing a brand new method for biosynthesis of a family of functional bulk nanocomposite materials (Natl. Sci. Rev. 2018, DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwy144). 
    November 18, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Bio-inspired low-tortuosity carbon host for high-performance lithium metal anode"  by National Science Review. Congratulations to Yichen and Zhilong et al for their innovative work on bioinspired low-tortuosity carbon host for lithium metal anode (Natl. Sci. Rev. 2018, DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwy148). 
    November 10, 2018: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Advisory Editorial Board of a new journal Matter (Cell Press) to be launched in 2019.
    https://www.cell.com/matter/home
    November 1, 2018: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Editorial Board of a new journal Research (an official journal of CAST) launched in 2018.
    https://spj.sciencemag.org/research/
    October 25, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article on pulsed axial epitaxy of colloidal quantum dots in nanowires enabling facet-selective passivation by Nature Commmunications (Nat. Commun. 2018, NCOMMS-18-19072B). Congratulations to Yi Li and Taotao Zhuang et al for their persistence and hard work on this challenging topic during past few years.  
    October 19, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Review entitled "Recent Advances on Controlled Synthesis and Engineering of Hollow Alloyed Nanotubes for Electrocatalysis" for Special Issue of Hollow Structures by  Huihui Li et al. (Adv. Mater. 2018, DOI; 10.1002/adma. 201803503).
    October 18, 2018: Our work on bioinspired polymeric woods has been highlighted by Scientific American ("Artificial Wood-The synthetic material is
    both robust and versatile",
    Scientific American 2018, 319(5), 12).

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

    October 2, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our paper entitled "A Janus Nickel Cobalt Phosphide Catalyst for High-efficiency Neutral-pH Water Splitting" by Rui Wu, Bing Xiao, Qiang Gao et al. (Angew. Chem. -Int. Ed. 2018, 57, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201808929).
    September 2, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Review entitled "Nanowire Assemblies for Flexible Electronic Devices: Recent Advances and Perspectives" by  Jin-Long Wang, Muhammad Hassan et al. (Adv. Mater. 2018, DOI; 10.1002/adma.201803430).
    August 24, 2017: Dr. Libo Mao received the CAS Exellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for the 2018 Year! Congratulations!
    August 10, 2018: Our work on bioinspired polymeric woods has been reported by News in Science ("This synthetic wood is as strong as the real thing—and won’t catch fire", doi:10.1126/science.aav0689), physicsworld ("Making artificial wood on the large scale"),
    July 18, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Biomimetic twisted plywood structural materials" by National Science Review. Congratulations to Siming Chen and Huailing Gao et al for their innovative work for developing a smart way toward this new type of biomimetic twisted plywood structural materials (Natl. Sci. Rev. 2018, NSR_MS-2018-100).  
    July 9, 2018: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Advisory Editorial Board of a new journal Trends in Chemistry (Cell Press) to be launched in 2019.
    https://www.cell.com/trends/chemistry/home
    June 30, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article on bio-inspired polymeric woods by Science Advances. Congratulations to Zhi-Long Yu, Ning Yang et al for their discovery a new way for producing a family of bio-inspired polymeric woods (Sci. Adv. 2018, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat7223).
    June 25, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article on transforming ground mica into high-performance biomimetic polymeric mica film by Nature Commmunications (Nat. Commun. 2018, NCOMMS-17-31682C). Congratulations to Xiaofeng Pan and Huai-Ling Gao et al  for their solid and innovative work during past few years.
    June 18, 2018: Congratulations! The paper entitled "Transition metal assisted carbonization of small organic molecules toward functional carbon materials" by Zhen-Yu Wu, Shi-Long Xu et al was accepted by Science Advances (Sci. Adv. 2018, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat0788).
    June 9, 2018: Congratulations! Four 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 Chen (University of California, Berkeley), Hao-Ran Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Yu-Da Li (Indiana University, Bloomington), Xiang Chen (The University of Hong Kong).
    June 4, 2018: Congratulations! The paper entitled "Doping-induced structural phase transition in cobalt diselenide enables enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis" by Ya-Rong Zhen et al was accepted by Nature Commmunications (Nat. Commun. 2018, NCOMMS-18-02879B).
    June 3, 2018: Chao Gu, Lei-Lei Lu, Tao Ma, Si-Yue Ma, Qi-Qi FU,Chao Li and Wei Wang  successfully passed their phD defense through 5-6 years hardworking! Congratulations!
    May 30, 2018: Our work on fire-retardant and thermally insulating phenolic-silica aerogels was featured by Advanced Science News ("Fire Retardant Binary Network Aerogels").
    https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/fire-retardant-binary-network-aerogel/
    May 29, 2018: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to serve as an associate editor for a new journal EnergyChem (Elsevier) to be launched in 2019.
    https://www.journals.elsevier.com/energychem/editorial-board
    May 29, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "SiO2-protected shell mediated templating synthesis of Fe-N-doped carbon nanofibers and their enhanced oxygen reduction reaction performance" by Energy Environ. Sci. (Bi-Cheng Hu, Zhen-Yu Wu et al., Energy Environ. Sci. 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C8EE00673C).
    May 15, 2018: Congratulations! The paper by  Ping Song et al ("Self-healing and superstretchable conductors from hierarchical nanowire assemblies") was accepted by Nature Commmunications (Nat. Commun. 2018, NCOMMS-18-00682B).
    May 14, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Mini-Review entitled "Emerging Carbon Nanofiber Aerogels: Chemosynthesis versus Biosynthesis" by Zhen-Yu Wu, Hai-Wei Liang et al. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802663).
    May 11, 2018: Our work on design and synthesis of nickel molybdenum oxide nanorod catalysts for urea electrolysis with the highest efficiency has been featured by ChemistryWorld ("Transition metal catalyst helps produce sustainable hydrogen from urea").

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

    May 7, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Real-Time Probing of Nanowire Assembly Kinetics at Air-Water Interface by In situ Synchrotron X-ray Scattering" by Zhen He, Hui-Jun Jiang et al. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800883).
    April 27, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Ni-Mo-O nanorod-derived composite catalysts for efficient alkaline water-to-hydrogen conversion via urea electrolysis" by Zi-You Yu, Chao-Chao Lang et al. (Energy Environ. Sci. 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C8EE00521D).
    April 26, 2018: Congratulations! The paper by Tao-Tao Zhang and Zhi-Qin Liang et al ("Steering post-C-C coupling selectivity enables high efficiency electroreduction of carbon dioxide to multi-carbon alcohols") was accepted by Nature Catalysis (Nat. Catalysis 2018, NATCATAL-17090288D).
    April 17, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Wood-Derived Ultrathin Carbon Nanofiber Aerogels" by Si-Cheng Li et al. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802753).
    March 24, 2018:  Congratulations! Yu Chenwas awarded Mo-Ruo Guo Award -the highest award for undergraduate students in USTC, (only 33 student one year). Ye will move to University of California, Berkeley for her graduate study. Good Luck! 

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

    February 17, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Wood inspired ultra-thick LiCoO2 cathode for high specific energy/power Li-ion batteries" by Lei-Lei Lu et al. (Adv. Mater. 2018, adma.201706745. In press).
    February 16, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Fire-retardant and thermally insulating phenolic-silica aerogels" by Zhi-Long Yu et al. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201711717. In press).
    February 13, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Synthesis of Sub-2 nm Fe-Doped NiSeNanowires and Their Surface Confined Oxidation for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis" by Chao Gu et al. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800883).
    January 24, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Review on Stability and Reactivity: Positive and Negative Aspects for Nanoparticle Processing. Congratulations to Liang Xu, Haiwei, Yuan Yang for their systematic and outstanding work on this topic for several years ! (Chemical Reviews 2018, cr-2017-00208m, In press).
    January 11, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Article entitled "Graphene Thin Films by Non-Covalent Interaction Driven Assembly of Graphene Monolayers for Flexible Supercapacitors" by Chem.
    January 10, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Communications entitled "Bio-Inspired Interface Design for Improving the Strength and Electrical Conductivity of Graphene-Based Fibers" by Tao Mao, Huai-Ling Gao et al (Adv. Mater. 2018, adma.201706435).
    January 5, 2018: Congratulations on the acceptance of the Letter entitled "Low Cost Metal Carbide Nanocrystals as Binding and Electrocatalytic Sites for High Performance Li-S Batteries" by Fei Zhou, Zheng Li et al (Nano Lett. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04505).
    September 27, 2017: Dr. Jin Ge received the CAS Exellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for the 2017 Year! Congratulations!
    August 8, 2017: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Accounts on Pyrite-type nanomaterials for advanced electrocatalysis. Congratulations to Min-Rui, Ya-Rong et al for their systematic and outstanding work on this topic for many years ! (Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, ar-2017-00187x, In press).
    June 30, 2017: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article on large area co-assembly of nanowires for flexible transparent smart windows by JACS. Congratulations to Jin-Long, Yi-Ruo and other team members for their solid and innovative work ! (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03227).
    June 27, 2017: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article on mass-production of bulk artificial nacre by Nature Communications. Congratulations to Huai-Ling, Si-Ming, Li-Bo, Zhao-Qiang and other team members for their solid and innovative work ! (Nat. Commun. 2017, NCOMMS-17-00473B)
    June 22, 2017: Our Communication entitled "Large-Scale Syntheses of Zinc Sulfide·(Diethylenetriamine)0.5 Hybrids as Precursors for Sulfur Nanocomposite Cathodes" has been accepted by Angewandte Chemie as a VIP Paper (Tao Ma, Fei Zhou et al., Angew. Chem. -Int. Ed. 2017, DOI:10.1002/anie.201706199).
    June 6, 2017: The article entitled "Template Directed Growth of Well-Aligned MOF Arrays and Derived Self-Supporting Electrodes for Water Splitting" has been published by Chem as a Front Cover (Guorui Cai, Wang Zhang et al., Chem 2017, 2(6), 791-802).
    June 3, 2017: Congratulations! Zhi-Long Yu, Yuan Yang, Liang Wu, Zi-You Yu and Cong Sui successfully passed their phD thesis defense!
    May 22, 2017: Congratulations! Five 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!
    Wen-Bo Ji (University of California, Berkeley), Bo-Yang Li (University of Pittsburgh), Chao-Chao Lang (Boston College), Guan-Cheng Li (University of Delaware), Ya-Xu Zhong (Indiana University Bloomington).
    May 20, 2016: Congratulations! Wen-Bo Ji was awarded the Mo-Ruo Guo Award (the highest award for undergraduate students in USTC). Wen-Bo will move to University of California, Berkeley for his graduate study. Good Luck! 
    http://news.ustc.edu.cn/xwbl/201705/t20170520_278050.html
    May 24, 2017: An invited review entitled "Macroscopic-Scale Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanofiber Architectures for Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices" was accepted (Li-Feng Chen, Yue Feng et al., Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, aenm.201700826, Invited Review).
    May 5, 2017: Our work on Joule-heated wrapped-graphene sponge for fast clean-up of viscous crude-oil spill was published (Nature Nanotechnol 2017, 12(5), 434-440, Front Cover), highlighted by Nature ("Hot graphene sponge mops up oil fast"), News & Views ("Oil spill recovery: Graphene heaters absorb faster"). , and Edtorial ("Think Bigger") of the journal Nature Nanotechnol., and will be highlighted by Natl. Sci. Rev., Sci. China Chem., Sci. China Mater.
    May 3, 2017: Our work entitled "Phase selective synthesis of unique cobalt telluride nanofleeces for highly efficient oxygen evolution catalyst" has been accepted by Angew. Chem. Int.-Ed. (Qiang Gao, Chuan-Qi Huang et al, Angew. Chem. -Int. Ed. 2017, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201701998).
    April 15, 2017: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Highly crystalline PtCu nanotubes with three dimensional molecular accessible and restructured surface as methanol oxidation catalysts" accepted by Energy Environ. Sci. (Hui-Hui Li, Qi-Qi Fu et al, Energy Environ. Sci. 2017, DOI: 10.1039/C7EE00573C). 
    March 31, 2017: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Synthesis of Low Pt-based Quaternary PtPdRuTe Nanotubes with Optimized Incorporation of Pd for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity" accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Si-Yue Ma, Hui-Hui Li et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b01482).
    March 27, 2017: Our Review entitled "Emerging tellurium nanostructures: controllable synthesis and their applications" accepted by Chem. Soc. Rev. (Chem. Soc. Rev. 2017, CS-SYN-01-2017-000013.R2). Congratulations to Zhen He, Yuan Yang et al.
    February 2, 2017: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Letter entitled "Joule heated graphene wrapped sponge enables fast clean-up of viscous crude oil spill" by Nature Nanotechnology (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2017, NNANO-16020238B). Congratulations to Jin, Lu-An, Yong-Chao and other team members for their solid and innovative work!
    January 9, 2017: Prof. Yu's team received The 2nd Prize of National Natural Science Award for the Year 2016 awarded by Chinese Government.
    January 2, 2017: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to serve as a Senior Editor for Langmuir.
    October 20, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Ion-Catalyzed Synthesis of Microporous Hard Carbon Embedded with Expanded Nanographite for Enhanced Lithium/Sodium Storage" accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Zhi-Long Yu, Sen Xin, Ya You et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b06673).
    October 7, 2016: Our synthetic nacre work was published, Featured by Perspectives "Growing a synthetic mollusk shell" (Francois Barthelat, Science 2016, 354, 32-33).
    October 5, 2016: Our JACS paper was selected as Front Cover and featured by JACS Spotlights: Heteronanostructure Polymorphs with Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Properties
    September 30, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Edge Article entitled "A One-Dimensional Porous Carbon-Supported Ni/Mo2C Dual Catalyst for Efficient Water Splitting" accepted by Chemical Science (Zi-You Yu et al, Chem. Sci. 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C6SC03356C).
    September 28, 2016: Congratulations! Undergraduate student Wen-Bo Ji was awarded Mo-Ruo Guo Award for the Year 2016 (the highest award for undergraduate students at the USTC, total 33).
    September 27, 2016: Dr. Tao-Tao Zhuang received the CAS Exellent Doctoral Dissertation Award for the 2016 Year! Congratulations!
    September 12, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Surface Charge Polarization at the Interface: Enhancing the Oxygen Reduction via Precise Synthesis of Heterogeneous Ultrathin Pt/PtTe Nanowire" accepted by Chemistry of Materials (Hui-Hui Li et al, Chem. Mater. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02769).
    August 25, 2016: Congratulations to Libo et al, our synthetic nacre work was highlighted by different media, including Nature, PhysOrg, ChemistryWorld, ScienceDaily.
    August 16, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Super-Elastic and Fatigue Resistant Carbon Material with Lamellar Multi-Arch Microstructure" accepted by Nature Communications (Huai-Ling Gao, Yin-Bo Zhu et al, Nat. Commun. 2016, NCOMMS-16-06465B). Congratulations to Huailing, Yinbo and other team members for their solid and innovative work!
    August 16, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Sheets Meet MoS2: A Unique “Film-Foam-Film” Structure to Trigger Enhanced Lithium Storage" accepted by Angewandte Chemie (Ting-Tian Shan et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201606870).
    August 12, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Polymerization under Hypersaline Conditions: A Robust Route to Phenolic Derived Carbon Aerogels" accepted by Angewandte Chemie (Zhi-Long Yu et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, DOI: 10.1002/anie. 201605510).
    August 4, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Report on Synthetic Nacre by Science. Congratulations to Libo, Huailing and other team members for their solid and innovative work!
    July 28, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Invited Review entitled "Advanced Sorbents for Oil Spill Cleanup: Recent Advances and Future Perspective" by Adv. Mater. (Jin Ge et al, Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201601812).
    July 26, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Article entitled "Precursor Triggering Synthesis of Self-Coupled Copper Sulfide Polymorphs with Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Properties" by JACS (Shi-Kui Han†, Chao Gu†, Songtao Zhao† et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 137, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b066099).
    June 3, 2016:  Congratulations on the acceptance of our Communication entitled "Free-Standing Copper Nanowire Network Current Collector for Improving Lithium Anode Performance" by Nano Letters (Lei-Lei Lu, Jin Ge et al, Nano. Letter. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01581).
    May 27, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our article entitled "One-Pot Gram-Scale Synthesis of Nitrogen and Sulfur Embedded Organic Dots with Distinctive Fluorescence Behaviors in Free and Aggregated States" by Chemistry of Materials (Jia Zhang, Li Yang et al, Chem. Mater. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b01360).
    May 24, 2016: Congratulations! Four 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! 
    Ye Zhang (University of California, Berkeley), Sheng-Xiang Ma (University of California, Los Angeles), Yi-Ming Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Yue Feng (École Polytechnique, France).
    May 22, 2016: Congratulations! Ye Zhang was awarded Mo-Ruo Guo Award (the highest award for undergraduate students in USTC). Ye will move to University of California, Berkeley for her graduate study. Good Luck!
    http://news.ustc.edu.cn/xwbl/201605/t20160521_245380.html
    May 20, 2016: Jin Ge, Huai-Ling Gao, Zhen-Yu Wu, Wang Zhang, Lu-Ting Song and Fei Zhou successfully passed their phD defense! Congratulations!
    May 5, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our article entitled "Coupling Microbial Growth with Nanoparticles: A Universal Strategy to Produce Functional Fungal Hyphae Macrospheres" by ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (Wen-Kun Zhu, Huai-Ping Cong et al, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, DOI:10.1021/acsami.6b03399). 
    April 27, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of our article entitled "Mo2C Nanoparticles Embedded within Bacterial Cellulose- Derived 3D N-doped Carbon Nanofiber Networks for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution" by NPG Asia Mater. (Zhen-Yu Wu, Bi-Cheng Hu, Ping Wu et al, NPG Asia Mater. 2016, AM2016055R).  
    April 24, 2016: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Editorial Board of Nano Convergence starting from April 2016.
    April 11, 2016:  Congratulations on our Full Article entitled “Polytypic Nanocrystals of Cu-Based Ternary Chalcogenides: Colloidal Synthesis and Photoelectrochemical Properties" accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Liang Wu, Shi-You Chen et al,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13288).
    March 31, 2016:  Congratulations on our Full Paper entitled “Unique Necklace-Like Phenol Formaldehyde Resin Nanofibers: Scalable Templating Synthesis, Film Casting and Their Superhydrophobic Application" accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Xin Wang et al, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201600907).
    March 9, 2016: Congratulation on our Edge Article entitled “A general chemical transformation route to two-dimensional mesoporous metal selenide nanomaterials by acidification of ZnSe-amine lamellar hybrid at room temperature" accepted by Chem. Sci. (Zeng-Wen Hu, Liang Xu et al, Chem. Sci. 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C6SC00674D).
    March 7, 2016:  Congratulation on our Communication entitled “Integration of Sulfides Enables Enhanced Full-Spectrum Solar Energy Absorption with Efficient Charge Separation" accepted by Angew. Chem. -Int. Ed.(Tao-Tao Zhuang et al, Angew. Chem. -Int. Ed. 2016, 55, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201601865, VIP Paper).
    March 2, 2016: Congratulations on our Article entitled “A Comparison Study on the Stability of Copper Nanowires and Their Oxidation Kinetics in Gas and Liquid" accepted by ACS Nano (Liang Xu et al, ACS Nano 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00704).
    February 15, 2016: Congratulations on our Full Paper entitled “Elastic carbon nanotube aerogel meets tellurium nanowires: a binder and collector free electrode for Li–Te batteries" accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. (Jie Xu†, Sen Xin† et al, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, DOI: 10.1002/ adfm.201600640.).
    January 20, 2016: Congratulations on our Communication entitled “Charged Inorganic Nanowire Directed Mineralization of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Nanowires" accepted by ChemNanoMat (Yang-Yi Liu et al, ChemNanoMat 2016, DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201600014).
    January 19, 2016: Congratulations on the acceptance of the article entitled “Coating Sponge with a Hydrophobic Metal-Organic Framework Containing Low-Energy CF3-Decorated Surface for Continuously Pumping Recovery of Oil Spill from Water” by Zhuo-Rui Jiang†, Jin Ge† et al (Zhuo-Rui Jiang†, Jin Ge† et al, NPG Asia Mater. 2016, AM2015394R).
    January 13, 2016: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the Editorial Board of C-Journal of Carbon Research starting from January 2016.

    November 24, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Accounts entitled “Bacterial Cellulose: A Robust Platform for Design of Three Dimensional Carbon-based Functional Nanomaterials” by Zhen-Yu Wu, Hai-Wei Liang et al (Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, DOI:10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00380).

    November 9, 2015: Congratulations on the acceptance of our Full Paper entitled “Micrometer-thick Graphene Oxide-Layered Double Hydroxide Nacre-Inspired Coatings and Their Properties” by You-Xian Yan et al (You-Xian Yan et al, Small 2015, 11, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201502061).

    November 5, 2015: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu was invited to join the International Advisory Board of ChemPlusChem starting from November 2015.

    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 alAdv. 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 alACS 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.

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    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