Group News
11/14/2024 Big congrats to Rajendra and the team! His collabrative work with Merck on heterogenous photocatalytic hydrogen isotope labelling of pharmaceuticals is accepted by JACS!
11/04/2024 Welcome Bingxin Yang to the Luo lab! He is joining us as a postdoctoral fellow and will be working on the Sensing materials and gas sensor development project.
10/31/2024 We have hosted our lab warming event on October 31st 2024.
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10/18/2024 Congratulations to Sethma for winning the best talk award at the Graduate Symposium today!
10/10/2024 Dr. Long Luo received the 2025 Pittcon Achievement Award (https://pittcon.org/conference/award-recipients/).
10/04/2024 Chanaka presented a poster at MUACC 2024.
10/04/2024 Dr. Long Luo visited the PET Imaging lab at Children's Hospital of Michigan.
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10/04/2024 Prof. Tom Linz and Dr. Long Luo co-organized the 2024 MUACC at Wayne State University.
8/27/2024 Congrats to Dr. Luo. The Chem Review paper entitled "Gas Evolution in Water Electrolysis" has been accepted (Invited Review).
8/19/2024 Chanaka and Dr. Luo presented at the Analytical Advancements for Emerging Contaminants Symposium! ACS Fall 2024!!!
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8/2/2024 Diptangshu and Sachini participated in squishy circuits at Leonardo's Mad Scientist Summer camp!
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8/1/2024 August 1st 2024 is our official grand opening date at Utah!!!
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7/22/2024 A nice writeup from ChemistryWorld on AC electrolysis for organic synthesis! Thanks for the interview invitation.
7/20/2024 First group lunch in Utah!!
7/17/2024 Congrats to the 5th Ph.D. of our group, Dr. Daohua Liu!!
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7/10/2024 Atanu presented a poster at the CSOE All Hands Meeting 2024 at Caltech!
7/6/2024 Dr. Luo was invited to join the advisary board of ACS Electrochemistry!
7/4/2024 We had a 4th of July BBQ with the Zhu group and the Tang group! Thanks to both the group for inviting us!
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7/1/2024 Dr. Luo gave a talk at the CSOE-UT El Paso joint workshop!
6/26/2024 Dr. Luo visited Kyung Hee University and gave a talk there. Thanks to Prof. Joohoon Kim for the invitation.
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6/25/2024 Dr. Luo visited Seoul National University and presented at the Center for Electron Transfer (CET)in South Korea and Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry (CSOE) in the US workshop. Thanks to Prof. TD Chung at Seoul National University for the invitation and organizing this workshop.
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6/20/2024 Congrats to Daohua, Atanu, and Rajendra! Their paper is accepted by Angewandte Chemie! Bubble tea from Daohua!
6/18/2024 Time for Bubble tea after packing the lab instruments!
6/7/2024 Luo lab members at Neinas Chemistry Day with school students at Wayne State University!
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6/1/2024 Celebrated Dr. Dick Crook's retirement and group reunion at UT Austin!
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5/21/2024 Sachini and Diptangshu presented a poster at the CSOE on-site review!
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5/18/2024 The annualECS Detroit Student Chapter BBQ at Belle Isle in #Detroit ! Getting ready for more Echem in the summer!
5/8/2024 Daohua gave a great talk on CdS photocatalyzed hydrogen atom transfer at the Michigan Catalysis Society symposium!
5/1/2024 Congrats to the 4th Ph.D. of our group, Dr. Sachini Rodrigo!! We celeberate her graduation at Kpot Korean BBQ!
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4/22/2024 Congratulations to Daohua on “Schaap-Rumble Graduate Research Fellowship” and “David F.Boltz Award in Analytical Chemistry” Awards and Congratulations to Blake on his “Departmental Citations for Excellence in Teaching Service” Award!
4/19/2024 Congratulations to Blake on his first first author paper, “Resistive pulse analysis of chiral amino acids utilizing metal–amino acid crystallization differences.” It was featured in the The Analysts HOT Articles 2024 and 150th anniversary collection.
04/15/2024 Today is undoubtedly Blake’s luckiest day! Congratulations to Blake on passing the oral exam and accepting his first paper. He is officially a PhD candidate in our group!
04/08/2024 Thank you to Professor Mark Schoenfisch for giving his talk called “Nitric
oxide-releasing therapeutics for disease management and biomedical applications”.
It is an unforgettable and fantastic talk on the day of the total solar eclipse!
03/27/2024 Thank you to Prof. Xingchen Ye for giving his talk called, “Dynamics and
Emergent Complexity in Functional Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Superstructures”. We
also enjoyed his company for lunch and research discussion!
3/27/2024 Congratulations to Sethma for passing of the oral exam. She is officially
a PhD candidate in our group!
3/26/2024 Congratulations to Sanford lab and Dr. Luo for publishing, “Benchmarking Trisaminocyclopropeniums as Mediators for Anodic Oxidation Reactions” in The Journal of Organic Chemistry!
3/18/2024 Daohua presented her work at ACS Spring 2024 in New Orleans!
3/13/2024 Sumudu presented a poster on “Cooperative interactions in metal nanoparticle assemblies to control functional properties” at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)!
2/28/2024 Thank you to Dr. Hao Li for giving his talk called, “The Cat-Universe: A
“Data-Theory-Methodology-Experiment” Framework to Realize Catalyst Design.” We also
enjoyed his company for lunch and group meeting!
2/13/2024 Another successful ECS election! Congratulations to all the newly elected officials! Blake Stringer is the new president. Carlos Lucecki is the new vice-president. Veka Sri Ganesan is the new secretary. Sethma Wijesinghe is the new treasurer.
2/5/2024 Happy 7th year lab-anniversary to Dr. Luo! The left side images are when
Dr. Luo first joined Wayne State and the right side images are the current Luo lab!
1/22/2024 Congratulations to Dr. Jier Huang and their group at Boston College! Dr. Luo collaborated with them on the paper titled, “Control Over Charge Separation by Imine Structural Isomerization in Covalent Organic Frameworks with Implications on CO2 Photoreduction.” It was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!
1/11/2024 ECS hosted Prof. Zhe Wang, and he gave a wonderful talk called, “Noncovalent Interaction-Based Selective Adsorption for Small Molecules in In-Field and Point-of-Care Electrochemical Sensor!”
12/27/2023 Congrats to Nibedita, Sachini, Atanu, and Rajendra as their paper titled, “Revisiting Alternating Current Electrolysis for Organic Synthesis” came online!
12/22/2023 A new tradition for the Luo lab may be starting as we all did a Secret
Santa gift exchange!
12/16/2023 We had a lot to celebrate this past weekend as Disni returned for her graduation ceremony, we had many new members joining us, and the holidays were right around the corner. To celebrate, we all went out to Ashoka Indian Cuisine!
12/5/2023 The Luo lab would like to welcome Udeshika, Sreesaila and Janya as our incoming
Ph.D. students! We would also like to welcome Jie as a post doc.!
11/09/2023 Sethma presented her work on recycling gadolinium via electrochemistry
at the Association of Analytical Chemistry Conference (ANACHEM)!
11/02/2023 The Detroit ECS student chapter successfully hosted Dr. Tom Guarr, who
gave a talk titled “The Path to an All-Organic Battery Starts With a Look in the Rearview
Mirror.”
10/31/2023 Congratulations to Sethma on her paper, “Recycling Gadolinium from Hospital Effluent via Electrochemical Aerosol Formation” officially coming online!
10/30/2023 Welcome Sulekha Sharma to the Luo lab! She is joining us as a postdoctoral fellow and will be working on the AC electroorganic synthesis project.
10/20/2023 Our NSF collaborators Jingwei Li and Eric Phillips from Merck came to Wayne State to give a talk about isotope labeling/pharmaceuticals and meet with the students!
10/18/2023 Dr. Luo was selected as a Scialog Fellow for “Automating Chemical Laboratories” by the Research Corporation for Science and Advancement!
10/16/2023 Dr. Qingling Zhang came from BASF and gave a talk on sustainability in
automotive OEM coating!
10/14/2023 The Luo lab represented well at Wayne State’s Chemistry Graduate Research
Symposium as we had four posters on display, and Dr. Sachini gave a talk!
10/4/2023 We had a great time hosting Dr. Glasscott as he gave a seminar here at Wayne
State! We look forward to seeing him in the near future.
9/29/2023 Arriea showcased her work alongside Rajendra at the Undergraduate Research
Symposium!
9/25/2023 Congratulations to Sachini and Atanu as their JACS paper, “Overcoming the Potential Window-Limited Functional Group Compatibility by Alternating Current Electrolysis” is officially online!
9/23/2023 The Luo lab went apple picking at Blake’s Big Apple Farm! This is turning
into a yearly tradition for us!
09/11/2023 Congratulations to Dr. Sachini, who successfully defended her dissertation to earn a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry and become Dr. Luo’s fourth Ph.D. graduate!
09/06/2023 The Luo group officially joined the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry!
09/05/2023 Welcome Diptangshu to the Luo lab! He is joining us as a postdoctoral fellow and will work on the material and gas sensing project.
08/23/2023 The Luo lab and Wayne State successfully hosted the Center For Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry (CSOE). Everyone had a great time sharing their research and their thoughts on what CSOE needs to do to make synthetic organic electrochemistry mainstream.
08/16/2023 The Luo group says farewell to Arriea as her summer internship (SEED Program) comes to an end. We wish Arriea all the best!
8/11/2023 Half of the Luo lab had the opportunity to present a talk or poster at the 2nd Texas Electrochemical Roundup! The Luo group was joined by the Baker, Crooks, Stevenson, and Ren lab.
7/31/2023 Welcome Chanaka to the Luo lab! He is joining us as a postdoctoral fellow and will be working on the PFAS/surfactant sensing project.
7/19/2023 Congratulations to Nibedita, Disni, and Jyoti on having their publication, “Electrochemical hydrogen isotope exchange of amines controlled by alternating current frequency” become official.
7/16/2023 Another successful ECS BBQ was held at Belle Isle. Looking forward to having even more people next year.
7/13/2023 Rajendra and Nibedita presented their work at the 48th National Organic Chemistry Symposium at the University of Notre Dame!
6/26/2023 Congratulations to Dr. Luo on receiving the 2024 Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award from The Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry!
6/26/2023 Arriea Bonds joins our group for the summer as an undergraduate intern!
6/21/2023 Grace Sun joins the group as a high school summer intern! Welcome onboard!
5/19/2023 Our supplement proposal for a UPLC-Mass Spec is recommended for funding! Thanks to Dr. Luo and Daohua, we will be building a cool high-throughput autonomous electrosynthesis system for our AC electrolysis!
5/5/2023 Congratulations to Daohua on her Rumble Fellowship for the upcoming year!
5/4/2023 The ECS chapter hosted Wayne State alumni Dr. Laura Kiefer, now a Oakland University professor! She gave a great talk about her previous research and included Star Wars references in honor of May the Fourth!
5/4/2023 As a Luo lab tradition, the lab went out to Belle Isle and had a barbeque to kick off the good weather and summer research. We also celebrated Ruchi getting hooded! What better way than food, volleyball, and spike ball!
4/30/2023 Our group’s work on PFAS sensing was covered by CE news! Give it a read
here!
4/25/2023 We got to host some students as a part of STEM Day! We had a blast teaching the students about paper sensors! Here are some pictures of everyone below.
4/24/2023 Sachini accepting her Organic Chemistry and Summer Dissertation award along with Ransford and Sumudo accepting their Teaching awards!
4/20/2023 Sachini with another award! She received the Organic Chemistry Top Graduate Student Award for 2023! Time for more bubble tea!
4/19/2023 Congrats to Sachini on being selected for the Summer 2023 Dissertation Award!
4/18/2023 Dr. Luo was promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with
tenure! As a celebration, he took the group out for bubble tea!
4/11/2023 Congratulations to Sachini for winning the David F. Boltz Award in Analytical Chemistry 2023!
4/10/2023 Our recent review paper, “Electrochemical Gelation of Metal Chalcogenide Quantum Dots: Applications in Gas Sensing and Photocatalysis” was accepted by Accounts of Chemical Research! Congrats to Xin, Daohua, and Hewa!!
3/29/2023 Congrats to Daohua for passing her 4th year-talk! Presented on her quantum dot gel work!
3/24/2023 Our proposal on catalytic isotope labeling of pharmaceuticals in collaboration with Merck is officially funded by the NSF! Thank you to Disni, Daohua, Nibedita, and Rajendra for the preliminary results!
03/21/2023 Dr. Luo went and visited our collaborators at Merck!
03/17/2023 The Luo group volunteered in Wayne State’s, “Neinas Chemistry Day” where middle schoolers from Neinas Dual Language Learning Academy take a field trip to our chemistry building. We had an amazing day filled with fun experiments! Here are some pictures of us throughout the day!
03/13/2023 Our recent work on Electrochemical Hydrogen Isotope Exchange of Amines Controlled by Alternating Frequency is accepted by Faraday Discussions! Congrats to Nibedita, Disni, and the rest of the team!!
03/09/2023 Congratulations to Dr. Disni (Disni Gunasekera), who successfully defended her dissertation to earn a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry and become Dr. Luo’s third Ph.D. graduate! Here are some pictures of us celebrating with her over zoom!
2/15/2023 Congratulations to Dr. Luo on being awarded the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship!
2/11/2023 Disni presented her work at the Center for Electrochemistry workshop at the University of Texas!
1/30/2023 Congratulations to the new Board of Directors for The Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry:
Jeffrey Dick, Richard B. Wetherill Associate Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University
Long Luo, The Carl R. Johnson Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Wayne State University
Olja Simoska, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of South Carolina
12/09/2022 A warm welcome to 4 new group members: Sethma, Sumudu, Ransford, and Blake!!
09/07/2022 Our recent work on Quantum Dot Gels as Efficient and Unique Photocatalysts for Organic Synthesis is accepted by Chemical Communications! Congrats to Daohua and our collaborators at Marquette University!!
08/24/2022 Dr. Atanu Hazra joined the group as a Postdoctoral fellow. Welcome to the Luo group!
7/28/2022 Our recent work on 1-second hydrogen gas detection under ambient conditions is accepted by Nano Research! Congrats to Xin and our collaborators at PNNL and Tsinghua University!!
7/20/2022 Farewell lunch to Bingwen, Ruchi, and Udeshika! Bingwen will join BASF, Ruchi will join Intel, and Udeshika will join PiramalPharma！Congrats! Best luck with your future endeavors! You will be missed!
06/21/2022 Congratulations to Ruchi, Shizhong, and Yue on their newly accepted Anal. Bioanal. Chem. paper on PFAS preconcentration!!
06/21/2022 Congratulations to Xin and Yi on their newly accepted Adv. Funct. Mater. paper on Grain-Boundary-Rich Noble Metal Nanoparticle Assemblies!!
06/16/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Ruchi (Ruchiranga Ranaweera), who successfully defended his dissertation to earn a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry and became Dr. Luo’s second Ph.D. graduate. Best luck to him in his future job at Intel!!
06/07/2022 Congratulations to Sachini and Daohua on winning Graduate Student Professional Travel Award!
06/03/2022 Congratulations to Disni on winning Graduate Student Professional Travel Award!
05/27/2022 Congratulations to Disni, Jyoti, and Sachini on their newly accepted JACS paper on AC electrolysis for organic synthesis!!
04/29/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Luo on winning inaugural Carl R. Johnson Early Career Professor since August 2022!
04/27/2022 Congratulations to Dr. Luo on winning outstanding junior faculty award from Wayne State University Academy of Scholars!
03/23/2022 Our group members, Ruchi and Sachini at ACS Spring 2022.
03/14/2022 Farewell group lunch for Jyoti with Luo Lab members. All the best for your future endeavors, Dr. Mahajan.
02/10/2022 Congratulations to Disni on winning the 2022 David F. Boltz Award in Analytical Chemistry!!
12/24/2021 Our research work on Photoexcited NO2 Enables Accelerated Response and Recovery Kinetics in Light-Activated NO2 Gas Sensing made the cover of ACS SENSORS!
12/04/2021 Wonderful news! Our collaborative proposal on PFAS sensor development is funded by U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center!
11/30/2021 Our paper “Electrochemical Gelation of Quantum Dots Using Non-Noble Metal Electrodes at High Oxidation Potentials” was accepted by Nanoscale. Congrats to Hewa, Xin, and our collaborators at the Brock group!!
11/24/2021 Enjoying our annual group lunch, saying goodbye to Dr. Hewa, and warmly welcome Udeshika!
11/23/2021 Congratulations to Dr. Hewa (Chathuranga Chinthana Hewa Rahinduwage), who successfully defended his dissertation to earn a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry and became Dr. Luo’s first Ph.D. graduate. Hewa’s Ph.D. defense was well attended on zoom, and he gave a beautiful talk about electrochemical gelation of metal chalcogenide quantum dots.
11/16/2021 Congrats to Disni for passing her 4th-year talk! She gave an excellent talk on alternating current electrolysis for organic synthesis!
11/01/2021 Our paper “Photoexcited NO2 Enables Accelerated Response and Recovery Kinetics in Light-Activated NO2 Gas Sensing” was accepted by ACS Sensors. Congrats to Xin, Hewa, and our collaborators at CAS!
10/07/2021 Congratulations on your new life, Daohua. We wish a happy journey to the bride and groom.
09/30/2021 Wonderful news! Our collaborative proposal is funded by U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center! Look forward to working with the REUSE Team!
09/02/3021 Great news! DOE officially funds our collaborative proposal with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the next three years. Special thanks to Xin for his contribution to this proposal!
08/28/2021 Our collaborative paper with the Guo Group at Beihang University, entitled “Sub-Nano FeOx Clusters Anchored in an Ultrathin Amorphous Al2O3 Nanosheet for Styrene Epoxidation” was just accepted by ACS Catalysis.
07/29/2021 Long-awaited BBQ party after the pandemic with Luo Lab members at Belle Isle.
07/28/2021 Our paper “Atomically dispersed Pb ionic sites in PbCdSe quantum dot gels enhance room-temperature NO2 sensing” has been accepted by Nature Communications.
06/15/2021 Our collaborative paper with the Henkelman Group at UT Austin, entitled “Factors that Influence Hydrogen Binding at Metal-Atop Sites” was just accepted by J. Chem. Phys. and selected as an Editor’s Pick !
06/07/2021 Thrilled to share that our lab has received a Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (R35) from the @NIHfor the next 5 years!! Thanks to @NIGMS for the funding and the students, postdocs, and collaborators @waynestatechem!
05/30/2021 Our collaborative paper with the Brock Group entitled “Quantum Dot Assembly Driven by Electrochemically Generated Metal-ion Crosslinkers” was accepted by Chemistry of Materials!
05/04/2021 Congratulations to Hewa on winning the 2021 David F. Boltz Award in Analytical Chemistry!!
04/22/2021 The Wayne State Academy of Scholars has recognized Long Luo with the prestigious Junior Faculty Award for 2021. Congratulations, Dr. Luo!
04/09/2021 Congratulations to Hewa and Sachini! They both received the prestigious Rumble Fellowship from the Graduate School!
03/05/2021 Congratulations to Ruchiranga Ranaweera on winning the Graduate Research Symposium Award!!
02/05/2021 Congratulations Hewa! He received the 2021 Summer Dissertation Award.
01/29/2021 Our review paper, “Alternating Current Electrolysis for Organic Synthesis” was accepted by Current Opinion in Electrochemistry.
11/07/2020 Congratulations to Hewa! His collaborative work with Verani Lab was just accepted by Langmuir. The title of the paper is “Electrochemical Quantification of Corrosion Mitigation on Iron Surfaces with Gallium(III) and Zinc(II) Metallosurfactants.”
09/29/2020 Our recent review paper, “Harnessing bubble behaviors for new analytical strategies” has been accepted by Analyst!
09/04/2020 Our research work on Alternating Current Electrolysis for Organic Electrosynthesis made the cover of Organic Letters!
08/14/2020 Ruchiranga Ranaweera is the recipient of a Departmental Citation for Excellence in Teaching Service. Congratulations Ruchi!
07/15/2020 Our research work on Reversible Electrochemical Gelation of Metal Chalcogenide Quantum Dots made the cover of JACS!
07/07/2020 Our first organic paper, “Alternating Current Electrolysis for Organic Electrosynthesis: Trifluromethylation of (Hetero)arenes” was accepted by Organic Letters.
06/03/2020 Congratulations to Hewa and Dr. Geng for their paper “Reversible Electrochemical Gelation of Metal Chalcogenide Quantum Dots,” accepted by JACS! It is a collaboration project with the Brock group at Wayne State University and the Zhang group at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
05/29/2020 Congratulations to Sachini! She is now a Ph.D. candidate in our lab.
05/07/2020 Congratulations Sachini! She received the 2020-2021 Graduate Student Professional Travel Award!
05/04/2020 Congratulations Ruchi for receiving prestigious Rumble Fellowship from Wayne State University Graduate School!
04/29/2020 ACS Catalysis just accepted our collaborative work with Nguyen Lab. The title of the paper is “Diastereoselective sp3 C-O Bond Formation via Visible Light-Induced, Copper-Catalyzed Cross Couplings of Glycosyl Bromides with Aliphatic Alcohols.”
04/28/2020 Our review paper, “Electrochemistry of Nanobubbles” was accepted by Current Opinion in Electrochemistry.
03/10/2020 Luo lab hosted a STEM day event – “The Science of Paper.”
03/06/2020 Congrats to Ruchiranga on his receiving the Competitive Graduate Research Assistantship from the University!
03/03/2020 Sachini and Hewa presented at the Wayne State Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Symposium.
02/10/2020 Dr. Luo hosted Dr. Lin Guo, the Executive Dean of the School of Chemistry from his alma mater, Beihang University.
01/08/2020 Dr. Luo received the NSF CAREER award! Congratulations Dr. Luo!
12/24/2019 Our Ph.D. student Ruchiranga is featured on the Wayne state Billboard on I75!
12/16/2019 Dr. Shizhong joined the group as a visiting scholar. Welcome to the Luo group!
12/10/2019 Our research work on lowering interfacial dissolved gas concentration for highly efficient hydrazine oxidation at platinum by fluorosurfactant modulation made the cover of ChemElectroChem!
11/19/2019 Enjoying our annual group lunch. Saying goodbye to Yue and hello to Daohua and Yanick!!!!
11/19/2019 Our research work on PFAS preconcentration via electrochemical aerosol formation made the cover of Analytical Chemistry!
11/14/2019 Our paper, “Lowering interfacial dissolved gas concentration for highly efficient hydrazine oxidation at platinum by fluorosurfactant modulation” has been accepted by ChemElectroChem.
09/27/2019 Celebrating Yue’s paper publication with the last bbq of the year. Congratulations again Yue!
09/25/2019 Congratulations to Hewa ! His collaborative work with Verani Lab was just accepted by Chemistry-A European Journal. The title of the paper is “A Molecular Approach for Mitigation of Aluminum Pitting based on Films of Zinc(II) and Gallium(III) Metallosurfactants”.
09/24/2019 Dr. Luo was appointed as a Langmuir Early Career Advisory Board Member.
09/17/2019 Our paper “1000-Fold Preconcentration of Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) within 10 min via Electrochemical Aerosol Formation” was published in Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations Yue!
09/10/2019 Dr. Luo hosted the analytical seminar speaker, Dr. Robbyn Anand from Iowa State University.
07/10/2019 Our work on surfactant quantification has been highlighted in a post on x-mol.com
06/18/2019 Our research work on bubble nucleation made the cover of Analytical Chemistry!
06/14/2019 After a long winter and a brief spring, it’s finally time for a lab BBQ! Luo lab at Belle Isle.
06/12/2019 Nature Nanotechnology recently highlighted our work on surfactant quantification. Click here to read the article.
05/21/2019 Dr. Luo had a meeting with Dr. Aaron Fisher at the Water Research Foundation. Thanks for your interest in our PFAS detection technology!
05/14/2019 C&EN News has posted an article on our recently published work.
04/27/2019 Luo lab is celebrating earth week with Everyday Science for Kids.
04/26/2019 Dr. Luo and Yue visited Ann Arbor Water Treatment Plant to collect water samples for research. Special thanks to Sarah Page for hosting.
04/26/2019 Our paper “Bubble Nucleation-Based Method for the Selective and Sensitive Electrochemical Detection of Surfactants.” was published in Analytical Chemistry.
04/24/2019 French journalism student at Wayne State University wrote a story about our PFAS-related research. Watch the interview on YouTube.
04/22/2019 Congratulations to Kelly Patero for receiving the James C. French Endowed Undergraduate Chemistry Scholarship.
04/22/2019 Congratulations to Disni on receiving Graduate School Citation for Excellence in Teaching and congratulations to Hewa on receiving the Departmental Citation for Excellence in Teaching.
04/15/2019 Dr. Luo hosted high school students from Madison Preparatory High School at Wayne State University, Department of Chemistry.
04/11/2019 Congratulations to Ruchiranga. He received the 2019-2020 Graduate Student Professional Travel Award.
04/11/2019 Congratulations to Disni! She has received the prestigious Rumble Fellowship from the Graduate School!
04/05/2019 Congratulations to Dr. Luo on his young professional and early career travel grant from the Electrochemical Society to attend the 235th ECS meeting.
04/03/2019 Congratulations to Hewa! He is now a Ph.D. candidate in our lab.
03/28/2019 Congratulations to Ruchiranga! He is now a Ph.D. candidate in our lab.
03/27/2019 Luo lab is among the three labs who received the Wayne State University, Research Grant! Thank you to the university for the support.
03/19/2019 Our invited feature article “Gas Bubbles in Electrochemical Gas Evolution Reactions” was published in Langmuir
03/12/2019 Dr. Luo had a meeting with the founder of everyday science for kids.
03/04/2019 Congratulations to Disni! She now is the first Ph.D. candidate in our lab.
02/26/2019 Dr. Luo had dinner with Dr. Potyrailo from GE Global Research and the Mao group.
02/18/2019 Dr. Luo hosted the frontiers seminar speaker, Professor Shelley D. Minteer, University of Utah.
02/13/2019 Dr. Luo delivered a talk on “Fundamentals and Applications of Gas Bubble Electronucleation” in the Department of Chemistry, Oakland University.
02/04/2019 Dr. Luo delivered a talk hosted by Prof. Steven Backues in the Department of Chemistry, Eastern Michigan University.
01/29/2019 Our research work was highlighted on the back cover of the newest issue of RSC Chemical Communications.
01/26/2019 Our group members reunion in Shanghai, China.
01/25/2019 Luo Lab’s second science show at PRECISE bubble tea shop in Great Lakes Crossing Outlets.
01/16/2019 Our paper “A Mass Transfer-Based Method for Controlled Electrosynthesis and Organization of Tetrathiafulvalene Bromide Micro/Nanowires” was published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Congratulations to Disni!
12/14/2018 Luo Lab presented a science show at PRECISE bubble tea shop in Great Lakes Crossing Outlets.
12/12/2018 Luo Lab will present a science show at PRECISE bubble tea shop in Great Lakes Crossing Outlets to acknowledge the general public about bubble chemistry.
12/10/2018 Our paper “Highly efficient hydrogen evolution of platinum via tuning interfacial dissolved-gas concentration” was published in Chemical Communications.
11/28/2018 We welcome Sachini Rodrigo, a new graduate student, to our group.
11/17/2018 Dr. Luo delivered a talk, and Disni presented a poster at the midwestern universities analytical chemistry conference (MUACC).
11/06/2018 Dr. Luo hosted the frontiers seminar speaker, Dr. Shanlin Pan, University of Alabama.
08/22/2018 Dr. Luo gave a talk at the ACS National Meeting in Boston.
07/29/2018 Best wishes to Srihari Ganesh for completing the summer research successfully in our lab. We wish you good luck in your future endeavors.
07/03/2018 We welcome Srihari Ganesh, a new high school research student, to our group for summer research.
06/15/2018 We welcome Carina Ghafari, a new undergraduate research student, to our group for summer research.
06/13/2018 Our paper “Hydrogen Bubble Formation at Hydrogen-Insertion Electrodes” was published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
04/30/2018 Dr. Xu Zhao is joining us as a postdoc this summer. Welcome to the Luo group!
04/24/2018 Our paper “Experimental and Theoretical Structural Investigation of AuPt Nanoparticles Synthesized using a Direct Electrochemical Method” was published in JACS.
04/23/2018 Kelly Shaye Patero, an undergrad from our lab has been awarded a Chemistry Undergraduate Scholarship for her academic excellence. Congratulations Kelly!
03/23/2018 The first paper of our group “Correlation between Gas Bubble Formation and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Kinetics at Nanoelectrodes“ was published in Langmuir. Congrats to Qianjin!
03/09/2018 Our paper “Colorimetric Sensor Array for Discrimination of Heavy Metal Ions in Aqueous Solution Based on Three Kinds of Thiols as Receptors” is accepted by Analytical Chemistry.
03/05/2018 Dr. Luo hosted the frontiers seminar speaker, professor Bo Zhang, from the University of Washington.
02/08/2018 Our paper “Shape-controlled electrodeposition of single Pt nanocrystals onto carbon nanoelectrodes” was published in Faraday Discussions.
01/31/2018 Dr.Luo visited the BASF Ovonic Battery site and gave a talk. Ovonic Battery is the global leader in NiMH battery technology. Special thanks to Dr.Young for giving us the book edited by him about Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries.
01/11/2018 Dr. Luo gave a poster at electrochemistry Gordon conference in Ventura.
01/11/2018 Our paper “Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Classically Immiscible Bimetallics: A Case Study of RhAu” was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
12/16/2017 Dr.Luo gave a talk at the Young Investigator Forum on Chemical Measurement in Beijing.
12/14/2017 Dr.Luo delivered a talk at Beijing Jiaotong University.
12/10/2017 Dr.Luo gave a talk at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
11/28/2017 Representing Luo group at the Electrochemical Society Regional Meeting – The Detroit Section.
10/24/2017 Dr. Luo hosted the analytical seminar speaker, Dr. Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, from UIUC.
09/25/2017 Our paper “Structural characterization of Rh and RhAu dendrimer-encapsulated nanoparticles” was published in Langmuir.
09/20/2017 Our new Shimadzu GC arrived!
08/09/2017 Dr. Qianjin Chen joined the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
07/10/2017 Prof. Luo received the Ebbing Faculty Development Award from Wayne State University to support his research. Thanks to Dr. Darrell Ebbing for establishing this award!
04/07/2017 Prof. Luo’s most recent paper “Tunability of the Adsorbate Binding on Bimetallic Alloy Nanoparticles for the Optimization of Catalytic Hydrogenation” was published in JACS.
03/01/2017 Prof. Luo presented a poster at the recruiting weekend at Wayne State.
02/27/2017 The lab space is ready for move-in.
02/2017 Prof. Luo officially accepted the offer from Department of Chemistry at Wayne State.
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