News and Highlights
4/27/2023
Welcome Michael and Brianna to join the Lu Research Group!
4/20/2023
Wanying, Michael, and John presented their research results at the College of Science & Mathematics Student Research Day, Rowan University!
4/4/2023
Welcome Gabriella and Mayooran to join the Lu Research Group! Their research activities are supported by the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) at Rowan University.
3/30/2023
Our brand new Bruker’s Dimension XR scanning probe microscope (SPM) system has been installed in our instrument lab to investigate the structural, mechanical, electric, and electrochemical properties of materials!
1/17/2023
Welcome Adam Peru to join the Lu Research Group!
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.
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!