{"id":8,"date":"2011-04-08T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:50:45","slug":"reserch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/reserch\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>October, SiangYee successfully defended her PhD dissertation work. Congratulations! SiangYee will work as a faculty member at\u00a0Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August, Dr. Xu together with other co-PIs received an equipment grant from DoD to purchase Hysitron PicoIndenters (PI 88 and PI95).\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Summer, Mr. Hussian Maanaki worked as a REU student in Dr. Xu&#8217;s lab.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March, Dr. Xu was elected to serve as the vice chair of the Nanomaterials Committee at TMS.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January, Manira Akter joined group.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2016<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>November, Zhiguang successfully defended his PhD dissertation work. Congratulations! Zhiguang is now working at Intel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Summer, Mr. Tan Phan (a rising junior) from the Division College worked as a REU student in Dr. Xu&#8217;s lab.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April, Dr. Xu received the official notice and was promoted to the rank of Full Professor. \u00a0Congratulations!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2015<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>July, Dr. Xu gave a keynote talk at ICCES&#8217;15.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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&#8217;s lab.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Xu will be the lead organizer for the 2016 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials Symposium at the TMS annual meeting.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Xu will serve as a guest editor for one of JOM&#8217;s 2016 issue sponsored by the Nanomaterials committee of TMS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2014<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>November, Youfei successfully defended his PhD dissertation work. Congratulations! Youfei is now working at Hermes-MicroVision.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Xu will be a co-organizer for the 2015 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials symposium at\u00a0 the TMS annual meeting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Xu will serve as a guest editor for one of JOM&#8217;s 2015 issue sponsored by the Nanomaterials committee of TMS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2013<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2017\/11\/Group-Picture_November-2013.jpg\">Group picture taken in November<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October, Dr. Xu gave two invited talks at MS&amp;T 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August, Zhiguang Cui and Siang-Yee Chang joined the group as two new PhD students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July, Zhe successfully defended his PhD dissertation work. Congratulations!\u00a0 Zhe is now working at Intel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June, Dr. Xu together with Dr. Li from Vanderbilt University received a grant from National Science Foundation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May, Dr. Xu gave an invited talk at ICCES 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Xu will be a co-organizer for the 2014 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials symposium at\u00a0 the TMS annual meeting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Xu will serve as a guest editor for the JOM April 2014 issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2012<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>January, Xiaoxia successfully defended her PhD dissertation work. Congratulations!\u00a0 She is now working at Intel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2011<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The collaborative project with Dr. Li at Vanderbilt University leads to a publication in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nnano\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/abs\/nnano.2011.216.html\"><em>Nature Nanotechnology<\/em><\/a>, the top journal in the field!\u00a0 Thanks for the good work\/contribution done by group members: Xiaoxia Wu and Youfei Jiang,\u00a0 the postdoc: Dr. Timothy Gutu, and the colleague: Dr. Haitao Zhang.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122699&amp;org=NSF&amp;from=news\">NSF news release<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Xu will be a co-organizer for the 2012 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials symposium at TMS annual conference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Xu was invited to serve on the Editorial Board of ISRN Materials Science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2010<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>October, Dr. Xu gave an invited talk at MS&amp;T 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April, Dr. Xu was promoted to Associate Professor with permanent tenure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2009<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>August, Youfei Jiang joined the Xu group as a Ph.D. student.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Summer, Colleen Bosak worked in Dr. Xu&#8217;s lab as a NSF-funded REU student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2008<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>November, Dr. Xu together with Dr. Li from Vanderbilt University received a grant from Lockheed Martin Corporation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August, Zhe Guan joined the Xu group as a Ph.D. student.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>June, Dr. Xu together with Dr. Li from Vanderbilt University received a NSF grant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May, Syed successfully defended his dissertation work. Congratulations! Syed is now working at Intel, Inc. (<a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/reserch\/group-picture-_may-2008\/\">Group picture taken in May 2008)<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May, Dr. Xu received a supplementary grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) to host a summer research fellow.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March, Dr. Xu received the prestigious NSF CAREER award. (<a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/CAREER-Award_Campus-News.pdf\">Campus News<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January, Dr. Xu received her second Junior Faculty Research Grant at UNC Charlotte.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January, Dr. Xu received the Bonnie Cone Fellowship from the NSF Advance Program at UNC Charlotte.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2007<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Summer, Nise Kaneza worked in the Xu lab as the SUMR scholar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May, Dr. Xu received the Wachovia Faculty Fellowship at UNC Charlotte.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May, Dr. Xu received a supplementary grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) &#8211; Supplements for Underrepresented Minority Research (SUMR) program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2006<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>September, Dr. Xu received the Type G grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) &#8211; Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January, Xiaoxia Wu joined the Xu group as a Ph.D. student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2005<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>January, Dr. Xu received her first Junior Faculty Research Grant at UNC Charlotte.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2004<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>August, Syed Amin joined the Xu group as a Ph.D. student.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>August, Dr. Xu joined UNC Charlotte as an assistant professor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 &nbsp; 2016 &nbsp; 2015 &nbsp; 2014 &nbsp; 2013 &nbsp; 2012 &nbsp; 2011 &nbsp; 2010 &nbsp; 2009 &nbsp; 2008 &nbsp; 2007 &nbsp; 2006 &nbsp; 2005 &nbsp; 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}