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2017

October, SiangYee successfully defended her PhD dissertation work. Congratulations! SiangYee will work as a faculty member at Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka.
August, Dr. Xu together with other co-PIs received an equipment grant from DoD to purchase Hysitron PicoIndenters (PI 88 and PI95).
Summer, Mr. Hussian Maanaki worked as a REU student in Dr. Xu’s lab.
March, Dr. Xu was elected to serve as the vice chair of the Nanomaterials Committee at TMS.
January, Manira Akter joined group.

2016

November, Zhiguang successfully defended his PhD dissertation work. Congratulations! Zhiguang is now working at Intel.
October, Dr. Xu received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Congratulations!
Summer, Mr. Tan Phan (a rising junior) from the Division College worked as a REU student in Dr. Xu’s lab.
April, Dr. Xu received the official notice and was promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Congratulations!

2015

July, Dr. Xu gave a keynote talk at ICCES’15.
Summer, Mr. Michael Buchbinder (a rising junior) from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art worked as a REU student in Dr. Xu’s lab.
Dr. Xu will be the lead organizer for the 2016 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials Symposium at the TMS annual meeting.
Dr. Xu will serve as a guest editor for one of JOM’s 2016 issue sponsored by the Nanomaterials committee of TMS.

2014

November, Youfei successfully defended his PhD dissertation work. Congratulations! Youfei is now working at Hermes-MicroVision.
Dr. Xu will be a co-organizer for the 2015 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials symposium at the TMS annual meeting.
Dr. Xu will serve as a guest editor for one of JOM’s 2015 issue sponsored by the Nanomaterials committee of TMS.

2013

Group picture taken in November.
October, Dr. Xu gave two invited talks at MS&T 2013.
August, Zhiguang Cui and Siang-Yee Chang joined the group as two new PhD students.
July, Zhe successfully defended his PhD dissertation work. Congratulations! Zhe is now working at Intel.
June, Dr. Xu together with Dr. Li from Vanderbilt University received a grant from National Science Foundation.
May, Dr. Xu gave an invited talk at ICCES 2013.
Dr. Xu will be a co-organizer for the 2014 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials symposium at the TMS annual meeting.

2012

January, Xiaoxia successfully defended her PhD dissertation work. Congratulations! She is now working at Intel.

2011

The collaborative project with Dr. Li at Vanderbilt University leads to a publication in Nature Nanotechnology, the top journal in the field! Thanks for the good work/contribution done by group members: Xiaoxia Wu and Youfei Jiang, the postdoc: Dr. Timothy Gutu, and the colleague: Dr. Haitao Zhang. NSF news release.
Dr. Xu will be a co-organizer for the 2012 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials symposium at TMS annual conference.
Dr. Xu was invited to serve on the Editorial Board of ISRN Materials Science.

2010

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2008

November, Dr. Xu together with Dr. Li from Vanderbilt University received a grant from Lockheed Martin Corporation.
August, Zhe Guan joined the Xu group as a Ph.D. student.
August, Dr. Xu together with other four co-PIs received a NSF MRI grant on purchasing a high resolution Transmission Electron Microscope and related sample preparation tools.
June, Dr. Xu together with Dr. Li from Vanderbilt University received a NSF grant.
May, Syed successfully defended his dissertation work. Congratulations! Syed is now working at Intel, Inc. (Group picture taken in May 2008).
May, Dr. Xu received a supplementary grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) to host a summer research fellow.
March, Dr. Xu received the prestigious NSF CAREER award. (Campus News)
January, Dr. Xu received her second Junior Faculty Research Grant at UNC Charlotte.
January, Dr. Xu received the Bonnie Cone Fellowship from the NSF Advance Program at UNC Charlotte.

2007

Summer, Nise Kaneza worked in the Xu lab as the SUMR scholar.
May, Dr. Xu received the Wachovia Faculty Fellowship at UNC Charlotte.
May, Dr. Xu received a supplementary grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) – Supplements for Underrepresented Minority Research (SUMR) program.

2006

September, Dr. Xu received the Type G grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) – Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) program.
January, Xiaoxia Wu joined the Xu group as a Ph.D. student.

2005

January, Dr. Xu received her first Junior Faculty Research Grant at UNC Charlotte.

2004