2005

2006

Younan Xia is among 13 scientists nationwide named to receive the 2006 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, an honor that includes $2.5 million in direct research funding over five years.

As the fourth-hottest scientist in the field of materials science, Younan Xia was interviewed by Science Watch, and the interview was published in the September/October issue under the title “U. Washington's Younan Xia: An Eye on Nanotech's Big Picture”.

Our two publications were among the top 20 most cited papers in materials science since 1996 (Younan Xia, Peidong Yang, Yugang Sun, Yiying Wu, Brian Mayers, Byron Gates, Yadong Yin, Frank Kim and Haoquan Yan, Advanced Materials, 2003, 15, 353-389.  Younan Xia, Byron Gates, Yadong Yin and Yu Lu, Advanced Materials, 2000, 12, 693-713). Another publication on Soft Lithography by Younan Xia and George M. Whitesides (Annu. Rev. Mater. Sci., 1998, 28, 153-184) was also in this list. See: http://www.in-cites.com/papers/top20-mat-sci.html.

Jingyi Chen passed her final exam on October 6th and became the fifth Ph.D. of the Xia group.  She now works as a postdoctoral fellow in the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Our research on the assembly of colloidal spheres into dimers in a solution phase (Marta Ibisate, Zhiqin Zou and Younan Xia, Advanced Functional Materials, 2006, 16, 1627-1632) was featured on the journal cover.

Leslie Au was selected to receive the IGERT Graduate Student Fellowship from the Center for Nanotechnology at the UW.

Our article on maneuvering the surface plasmon resonance properties of silver nanostructures through shape-controlled synthesis (Benjamin Wiley, Sang-Hyun Im, Zhi-Yuan Li, Joseph McLellan, Andrew Siekkinen and Younan Xia, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006, 110, 15666-15675) was featured on the journal cover. It is also one of the top 10 most downloaded feature article.

Dr. Yadong Yin (the 2nd Ph.D. from the Xia group) took a position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside.

Dr. Unyong Jeong (a former postdoctoral fellow in the Xia group) took a position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea.

Jingyi Chen received the 2006 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad, an honor that includes a cash prize of $5,000.

Benjamin Wiley received the Best Poster Award from the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry at the spring national meeting held in San Francisco, CA.

Our review article on the processing of ceramic nanofibers and nanotubes by electrospinning (Dan Li, Jesse McCann, Manuel Marquez and Younan Xia, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2006, 89, 1861-1869) was featured on the journal cover.