News
2024-11-15: Welcome two outstanding undergrads Jonas and Rafael to the group.
2024-11-2: First review published in Langmuir, talking about Recent Advances in Immobilizing and Benchmarking Molecular Catalysts for Artificial Photosynthesis. Link
2024-9-1: We are excited to welcome two graduate students, Muhammad and Popy, joining the group.
2024-7-31: Congratulations to Shaaz on being accepted by the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (URISE) Program. The URISE program is funded by NIH to train undergrads to do research and prepare them for PhD studies in Biomedical Sciences. We are excited that Shaaz will be supported by URISE and continue his research in the Xie group.
2024-5-20: We are excited to welcome Laxmi Devkota joining the group as a postdoc!
2024-5-2: Our recent Chemical Science article entitled ‘Photochemical charge accumulation in a heteroleptic copper(I)-anthraquinone molecular dyad via proton-coupled electron transfer’ has been selected and included in 2023 most popular catalysis articles collection.
2024-4-19: Another paper on Cu anthraquinone dyads has been published in JCP. We utilized ultrafast absorption spectroscopy to examine the electron-transfer dynamics of the dyads and uncovered the influence of bulky substituents attached to the phenanthroline moiety on the lifetime of the charge-separated state in these donor-acceptor dyads. Congratulations to the team! Link
2024-4-6: Dr. Lepore and Dr. Xie represented the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Explore FAU event. Together, we showcased the impact of chemistry on society through engaging and enjoyable experiments.
2024-3-15: Congratulations to Jordan on receiving Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF-LEARN). He will be supported to conduct research in the summer to develop bimetallic catalysts for CO2 reduction.
2024-3-2: Our years long study about using N k-edge XAS to distinguish site-specific electronic structure in large bridging ligand motifs has come to fruition. Excellent work! Link
2024-2-20: Welcome Juan to the group. Trust me, you have found a good way to apply what you have learnt. So, keep up the good work!
2023-12-2: The collaborative work on orientational analysis of nanocrystalline indium oxide thin films using PDF analysis has been published in IUCrJ.
2023-10-30: We welcome two NSF-LEARN program scholars, Shaaz and Jordan, to the group. Let’s do science!
2023-9-5: Dr. Xie officially started at FAU.
2023-9-1: Our work on photochemical charge accumulation using copper-anthraquinone molecular dyad has been accepted by Chemical Science.