News and Highlights

11/22/2022

Our brand new TA DSC 2500 has been installed in our research lab for the investigation of thermal property of materials!

11/4/2022

Congratulations to Wanying, Michael, Kai and John for presenting their research findings in the 6th Annual ACS Research Symposium, Rowan University, November 4, 2022!

9/28/2022

Our new Bruker Dimension XR AFM/SPM just arrived (three big crates)!

9/12/2022

Welcome Alexis Bensley and Anthony Lopez to join the Lu Research Group!

8/5/2022

Congratulations to Michael and Kevin for coauthoring a collaborative research article "Carbon Nanosphere-Encapsulated Fe Core–Shell Structures for Catalytic CO2 Hydrogenation" published by ACS Applied Nano Materials!

7/27/2022

Congratulations to Kevin and John for presenting their research findings in the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)!

6/27/2022

Welcome Sumedha Jayaraman, a rising junior at WWP High School South in NJ to join the Lu Group to conduct summer research!

6/1/2022

Congratulations to Michael Wildy for receiving the support from the Universal Display Corporation and the CUNY Graduate Center to present his research findings in the 2022 Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM).

5/16/2022

Congratulations to Kevin Arizapana for receiving the support from Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) at Rowan University to gain valuable, hands-on research experience for 10 weeks in the Lu Group!

5/1/2022

Congratulations to John Schossig for receiving the 2022 American Chemical Society Inorganic Award!

4/12/2022

Congratulations to Michael for publishing his first review article titled "Nanofibers for Renewable Energy" in Green Energy and Environmental Technology!

2/1/2022

Welcome Kevin Arizapana and Christopher Wileczek to join the Lu Group!

10/13/2021

Welcome Jacob Fowler, Pavan Patel and Sahil Verma to join the Lu Group!

6/11/2021

Welcome John Schossig and Michael Wildy to join the Lu Group!

1/25/2021

Our work "Flexible Nanopaper Composed of Wood-Derived Nanofibrillated Cellulose and Graphene Building Blocks" has been published in Journal of Renewable Materials.

1/18/2021

Welcome Christopher Beck to join the LU Group!

1/5/2021

Our work "Tannic acid-coated gold nanorod as a spectrometric probe for sensitive and selective detection of Al3+ in aqueous system" has been published in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.

10/16/2020

Our work "Solar Degradation of Toxic Colorants in Polluted Water by Thermally Tuned Ceria Nanocrystal-Based Nanofibers" has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congratulations to Wanying and Ryan as the co-authors of this paper!

10/1/2020

Our work "Solvent-Assisted Nanochannel Encapsulation of a Natural Phase Change Material in Polystyrene Hollow Fibers for High-Performance Thermal Energy Storage" has been published in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations to Dev and Harmann as the co-authors of this paper!

2/13/2020

Welcome Justin Dixon to join the LU Group!

1/28/2020

Welcome Ryan Hart, Wanying Wei, Kai Xu, Juhi Surti, Naina Raju, Emily Rooney and Samantha Lynch to join the LU group!

9/17/2019

Welcome Dev Patel and Harmann Singh to join the LU group!

9/1/2019

Dr. Lu joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Rowan University.