August 8, 2009 - One PhD student graduated from the ChE Department.

Dr. Randy Wang has successfully defended his dissertation "Application of Liquid-Liquid Interactions with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" and received the PhD degree. Randy will join Dr. Mark Eriksson's group as a postdoctoral research associate in U. Wisonsin - Madison.

July 14, 2009 - Paper accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Wei-Chiang Chen, Randy K. Wang, and Kirk J. Ziegler. Coating Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Nylon 6, 10 through Emulsion Polymerization. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2009, ASAP Article.

May 24, 2009 - Attended 215th ECS Meeting at San Francisco, CA.

Dr. Ziegler has the oral presentation "Manipulating the Surfactant Structure Surrounding Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Improved Fluorescence Emission," and Justin has the oral presentation "Modeling and Fabrication of Dye-Sentitized Solar Cell with Nanowire Array-Based Photoanodes."

May 13, 2009 - One new Master student joined the Group.

Jean (Hsiang-Chen) Chen has joined the group. She will work on the growth of SWNTs.

March 28, 2009 - Paper accepted by Chemistry of Materials.

Justin J. Hill, Sonja P. Cotton, and Kirk J. Ziegler. Alignment and Morphology Control of Ordered Mesoporous Silicas in Anodic Aluminum Oxide Channels by Electrophoretic Deposition. Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 1841.

January 5, 2009 - One new Master student joined the Group.

Ingrid (Cheng-Yin) Lin has joined the group. She will continue Wei-Chiang's work as the polymerization with SWNTs.

November 16, 2008 - Attended AIChE National Meeting at Philadelphia, PA.

Randy has the oral presentation "Improving the Effectiveness of Interfacial Trapping in Removing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles."

November 12, 2008 - Paper accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry.

Donna K. Arnold, Richard G. Hobbs, Micheala Zirngast, Christoph Marschner, Justin J. Hill, Kirk J. Ziegler, Micheal A. Morris and Justin D. Holmes. Single Step Synthesis of Ge-SiOx Core-Shell Heterostructured Nanowires. J. Mater. Chem. 2009, 19, 954.

October 8, 2008 - Paper accepted by Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Randy K. Wang, Wei-Chiang Chen, Daisy K. Campos, and Kirk J. Ziegler. Swelling the Micelle Core Surrounding Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Water-Immiscible Organic Solvents. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 16330.

September 27, 2008 - Attended NanoFlorida 2008 at Orlando, FL.

Randy has the oral presentation "Scalable Interfacial Trapping Technique for Removing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles," and he has received the Best Oral Presentation Award in Catagory: Nanomaterial Synthesis & Self-Assembly.

September 10, 2008 - Paper accepted by Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Randy K. Wang, Hyun-Ok Park, Wei-Chiang Chen, Carlos A. Silvera-Batista, Ryan D. Reeves, Jason E. Butler, and Kirk J. Ziegler. Improving the Effectiveness of Interfacial Trapping in Removing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles. J. Am Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 14721.