May 2023
May 2, 2023: Our invited Highlight: "Microporous metal-organic frameworks for the purification of propylne" has been selected as Journal of Materials Chemistry A HOT Paper, and as part of the themed collections: Celebrating International Women’s Day: Women in Materials ScienceandCelebrating ten years of Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
April 2023
April 28, 2023: Congratulations to Megan Bonite for being awarded the Duff Family Foundation Scholarship, Peter F. E. Marapodi Endowed Scholarship and the ACS Undergraduate Environmental Chemistry Award at the 2023 Undergraduate Symposium!
April 17, 2023: Congratulations to Professor Li for receiving the 2022-2023 Chancellor-Provost Faculty Excellence Award for Pioneering Scholarship!
April 5, 2023: Congratulations to Gia Carignan for being awarded the 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship!
March 2023
March 6, 2023: Our work has been featured in the collection Celebrating International Women’s Day: Women in Materials Science which showcases excellent work led by female researchers published in Materials Horizons, Journal of Materials Chemistry A,B, C and Materials Advances.
February 2023
February 16, 2023: Our minireview has just been accepted by Angewandte Chemie (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) - Congratulations!
January 2023
January 9, 2023: Congratulations to Xiuze Hei for his successful doctoral thesis defense on "Solution processable copper halide based inorganic-organic hybrid materials for photoluminescence related applications"!
November 2022
November 15, 2022: Congratulations to Professor Li who is again selected as one of the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers. In 2022, fewer than 7,000, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, have earned this exclusive distinction (https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/).
August 2022
August 30, 2022: Congratulations to Kun Zhu for his successful doctoral thesis defense on "Structure Design and Device Fabrication: Novel Copper Iodide Based Organic-Inorganic Hybrids for Optoelectronic Applications"!
July 2022
July 22, 2022: Our work has been highlighted at CCB website: https://chem.rutgers.edu/research/research-highlights.
July 15, 2022: Our Science paper "Discrimination of Xylene Isomers in a Stacked Coordination Polymer" has just been published: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj7659.
June 2022
June 22, 2022: Our collaborative work with Zhejiang University on "Discrimination of Xylene Isomers in a Stacked Coordination Polymer" has been accepted by Science! Big congratulations!
January 2022
January 27, 2022: Welcome to our new Postdoc Associate, Sayed Ali Khan!
January 13, 2022: Congratulations to Xiuze for being selected for this year's Reid Award, the highest honor for graduate students in Chemistry!
January 13, 2022: Congratulations to Guoyu for recieving the Rieman Teaching Award for his outstanding teaching performance!
December 2021
December 21, 2021: Welcome to our two new Ph.D. students Gia Carignan and Colin Farrington!
December 11, 2021: Prof. Jing Li is elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) - Congratulations!
September 2021
September 1, 2021: Welcome to our new Ph.D. student Yucong Xia!
July 2021
July 23, 2021: Congratulations to Ever for his paper "Flexible Zn-MOF with Rare Underlying scu Topology for Effective Separation of C6 Alkane Isomers" being published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces!
June 2021
June 30, 2021: Congratulations to Wooseok and Xiuze for their paper "Two-Dimensional Copper Iodide-Based Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Semiconductors: Synthesis, Structures, and Optical and Transport Properties" being published in Chem. Mater.!
June 28, 2021: Congratulations to Kun for his paper "A New Type of Hybrid Copper Iodide as Nontoxic and Ultrastable LED Emissive Layer Material" being published in ACS Energy Letters!
June 1, 2021: Welcome to our new Ph.D. student Feng Xie!
Apr 2021
April 19, 2021: Congratulations to Guoyu for his very first paper "Ultrastable Zirconium-Based Cationic Metal–Organic Frameworks for Perrhenate Removal from Wastewater" being accepted by Inorg. Chem.!
March 2021
March 1, 2021: Congratulations to Ever for his paper "Fluorescent Detection of Carbon Disulfide by a Highly Emissive and Robust Isoreticular Series of Zr-Based Luminescent Metal Organic Frameworks (LMOFs)" being accepted by Chemistry!
February 2021
February 22, 2021: Congratulations to Xiuze for his paper "All-In-One: A New Approach toward Robust and Solution-Processable Copper Halide Hybrid Semiconductors by Integrating Covalent, Coordinate and Ionic Bonds in Their Structures" being accepted by Chem. Sci. !
January 2021
January 12, 2021: Congratulations to two of our group members for receiving this year’s graduate student awards: Kun for Reid Award and Xiuze for Van Dyke Award! Big congratulations to both of them.
November 2020
November 18, 2020: Prof. Jing Li is named as one of the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers. The Highly Cited Researchers 2020 global list recognizes the world's most influential researchers of the past decade. demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of ScienceTM. In 2020, fewer than 6,200, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, have earned this exclusive distinction. Congratulations!
November 3, 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Shikai Xian for his paper "Calcium‐Based Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Potential Applications" being accepted by Small!
July 2020
July 28, 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyuan Liu for joining Hoffmann Institute of Advanced Materials (HIAM) as an Associate Professor.
July 8, 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Xing Huang for obtaining a postdoc position in Prof. Xinliang Feng’s lab at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
April 2020
April 26, 2020: Our JACS paper "Blending Ionic and Coordinate Bonds in Hybrid Semiconductor Materials: A General Approach toward Robust and Solution-Processable Covalent/Coordinate Network Structures" has been featured by X-MOL.
March 2020
March 3, 2020: Our JACS paper has been featured in ACS Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications: “Charged Chains Are a Bright Idea”.
February 2020
February 12, 2020: Congratulations to Xiuze for his paper "Blending Ionic and Coordinate Bonds in Hybrid Semiconductor Materials: A General Approach toward Robust and Solution-Processable Covalent/Coordinate Network Structures" being accepted by JACS and selected for contributing an Inside Front Cover.
January 2020
January 10, 2020: Congratulations to Bill for contributing to the first paper of our group published in 2020! Rational Design of a High-Efficiency, Multivariate Metal-Organic Framework Phosphor for White LEDs just accepted by Chem. Sci. !
December 2019
December 19, 2019: Welcome Guoyu Zhang to our group as a doctoral student.
November 2019
November 19, 2019: Prof. Jing Li is named as one of the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers. The Highly Cited Researchers 2019 global list recognizes the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.
November 12, 2019: Dr. Shikai Xian joining the group. Welcome!
August 2019
August 23, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyuan Liu again for his another paper "Three Models to Encapsulate Multi-component Dyes into Nanocrystal Pores: A New Strategy for Generating High Quality White Light" being accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. and selected for contributing a Supplementary Cover.
August 8, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoyuan Liu for the paper "Encapsulation of yellow phosphors into nanocrystalline metal–organic frameworks for blue-excitable white light emission" just accepted by Chem. Comm. and selected for contributing a Front inside cover!
July 2019
July 31, 2019: Congratulations to Professor Li for being in the top 5% of highly cited authors in RSC General chemistry portfolio of journals.
July 22, 2019: Welcome to our new post-doctoral associate Dr. Xing Huang!
May 2019
May 15, 2019: Congratulations to Liangying Li for the paper "A Robust Squarate-Based Metal–Organic Framework Demonstrates Record-High Affinity and Selectivity for Xenon over Krypton" just accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc.!
May 1, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. William Lustig for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, and earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
April 2019
April 17, 2019: Congratulations to Yang Fang for the paper "Highly Efficient and Very Robust Blue-Excitable Yellow Phosphors Built on Multiple-Stranded One-Dimensional Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Chains" just accepted by Chemical Science!
March 2019
March 23, 2019: Congratulations to Nate Rudd for another paper "Luminescent Metal–Organic Framework for Lithium Harvesting Applications" just accepted by ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering!
March 18, 2019: Congratulations to Hao Wang for another paper "Microporous Metal–Organic Frameworks for Adsorptive Separation of C5–C6 Alkane Isomers" just accepted by Accounts of chemical research!
January 2019
January 15, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Yang Fang for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, and earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
January 10, 2019: Congratulations to Bill Lustig for being seleted for a Reid Award!
December 2018
December 21, 2018: Welcome our new graduate student Xiang Zeng!
October 2018
October 15, 2018: Congratulations to Hao for yet another high-impact paper "Tailor‐Made Microporous Metal–Organic Frameworks for the Full Separation of Propane from Propylene Through Selective Size Exclusion" just accepted by Advanced Materials !
September 2018
September 25, 2018: Rutgers' department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology welcomed Nobel Laureate Professor Roald Hoffman to give the inaugural Waters Lecture “Two New Games for Carbon, We Hope”. Professor Hoffmann, who was Professor Li's Ph.D. advisor, also visited our group following his talk.
September 4. 2018: Welcome to two new group members: Dr. Falu Hu (post-doctoral associate) and Dr. Pengcheng Huang (Visiting scholar).
August 2018
August 29, 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Nathan Rudd for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, and earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
August 17, 2018: Our review "Luminescent metal–organic frameworks and coordination polymers as alternative phosphors for energy efficient lighting devices" (Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2018, 373, 116–147.)has been published online. Congratulations to Bill!
July 2018
July 12, 2018: Congratulations to Nate for being offered a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the Analytical Sciences Division of Merck!
July 11, 2018: Our lab moved to the new Chemistry and Chemical Biology Building!
May 2018
May 12, 2018: Rutgers Graduate School held its 2018 commencement ceremony today. Congratulations to Ben Deibert, Wei Liu, and Hao Wang for receiving their Ph.D. degree! All of us are proud of you and wish you a continued success in your future career!
April 2018
April 24, 2018: Congratulatations to Qining for receiving a Bruce Garth Award (for General Academic Excellence & Research)!
March 2018
March 26, 2018: Congratulations to Hao for yet another high-impact paper "One-of-A-Kind: A Microporous Metal-Organic Framework Capable of Adsorptive Separation of Linear, Mono- and Di-branched Alkane Isomers via Temperature- and Adsorbate-Dependent Molecular Sieving" just accepted by Energy & Environmental Science. ! This work has been featured by Cailiaoniu.
March 9, 2018: Our invited review "Sensing and Capture of Toxic and Hazardous Gases and Vapors by Metal-Organic Frameworks" has just been accepted by Chem. Soc. Rev. ! Congratulations to Hao and Bill!
February 2018
February 19, 2018: Our invited “Frontier” article "General strategies for effective capture and separation of noble gases by metal–organic frameworks" (Dalton Transac., 2018, Adv. Article (Frontier), DOI: 10.1039/C8DT00030A)has just been pubilished online. Congratulations to Hao!
January 2018
January 09, 2018: Our invited feature ariticle “Copper Iodide Hybrid Phosphors for Energy-Efficient General Lighting Technologies" ( Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 1705593) has been published online. Congratulations to Wei.
December 2017
December 12, 2017: Our work “Capture of Radioactive Organic Iodides from Nuclear Waste by Metal-Organic Framework Based Molecule Traps” (Nat. Comm., 2017, 8:485) has been highlighted by Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Department of Energy (DOE) as "Molecular Mousetraps Capture More Nuclear Waste".
December 17, 2017: Our work “All-in-one: Achieving Robust, Strongly Luminescent and Highly Dispersible Hybrid Materials by Combining Ionic and Coordinate Bonds in Molecular Crystals” (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 9281-9290) has been featured by X-MOL.
December 20, 2017: Congratulations to Nate Rudd for receiving a Rieman Teaching Award!
November 2017
November 22, 2017: Our invited feature article “Copper Iodide Hybrid Phosphors for Energy-Efficient General Lighting Technologies” has been accepted by Adv. Func. Mater.
October 2017
October 31, 2017: Our work “Capture of Radioactive Organic Iodides from Nuclear Waste by Metal-Organic Framework Based Molecule Traps” (Nat. Comm., 2017, 8:485) has been highlighted by Rutgers Today.
