News

We are excited to welcome three new students this summer, incoming graduate student Devin Rollins, undergraduate EJ Brannan, and summer REU student Dina Chehada. Welcome to the group!

Jack’s paper on the use of thermolabile crosslinkers to template multicomponent MOF pores has been published in JACS! Thank you to the ACS PRF for funding this work, and congrats Jack!

Congratulations to Austin and Kathleen, who were both awarded CEI Graduate Fellowships! This fellowship funds exceptional researchers from departments across UW to apply their talents to clean energy research projects, participate in outreach activities, and develop professional skills.

Exciting news – the lab has received a DOE Early Career award! This grant will fund the lab’s research on π–d conjugated molecules and materials.

Congratulations to My Do for leading our lab’s first paper! She synthesized a beautiful series of anisotropic copper cages that we’re excited to continue exploring in the future. Check it out here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00466.

We are excited to welcome our new postdoc, Ryan Shafranek! He recently received his Ph.D. from the Nelson lab at the University of Washington. We are excited to have you join us!

Jack, a second year in the group, received an NSF graduate research fellowship! Congratulations!!

Congratulations to our undergraduate Andy Wong! He was awarded a prestigious Mary Gates research scholarship to conduct research this spring and summer. We are very excited to have him back in the lab!

We are so excited to welcome our newest members, Austin Kamin and Kathleen Snook! To celebrate, we took a fun new group photo. Go to the members page to check it out!

Excited to share that the lab’s work on templating cooperative active sites in MOFs has been funded by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund!

Congratulations to Leo, who was awarded a CEI Graduate Fellowship! The CEI Graduate Fellowship Program funds exceptional researchers from departments across UW to apply their talents to clean energy research projects, participate in outreach activities, attend conferences, and develop professional skills.

First year Leo Zasada received an Honorable Mention on his NSF GRFP application! Congratulations!

Congratulations to our undergraduate My Do! She was awarded a prestigious Mary Gates research scholarship to conduct research this summer and fall.

The Xiao lab is growing! We are so excited to officially welcome Bobby, Jack, and Leo as the Xiao lab’s very first graduate students. Our postdoc Dawei will be arriving in January from the University of Houston. Two undergraduates have also joined, Andy and My. Please see the members page for more details!

Welcome to our rotation students Jack, Jiaying, Bobby, and Leo! We’re excited for what the next five weeks have in store for everyone. For those interested in the Xiao lab, we do not have regular weekly group meetings yet, but we will have group meeting this coming Monday, 11/4 at 3:30pm in CHB 339, as […]