Page 14 · Lehigh University Facullty News Xiaoji Xu Dr. Xu has been named a Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (See article on Pg. 7). . His lab has published the following papers: Gusenbauer, C.; Jakob, D.S.; Xu, X.G.; Vezenov, D.V.; Cabane, E. and Konnerth, J. “Nanoscale Chemical Features of the Natural Fibrous Material Wood” Biomacromolecules 2020, 21, 10, 4244–4252 Wang, H.; Wang, L.; Shang, Y.; Tafti, S.Y.; Cao, W.; Ning, Z.; Zhang, X.F.; and Xu, X.G. “Peak Force Visible Microscopy” Soft Matter 2020, 16, 8372-8379. Jakob, D.S.; Wang, H.; Zeng, G.; Otzen, D.E.; Yan, Y. and Xu, X.G. “Peak Force Infrared – Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy” Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 2020, 132, 37, 16217-16224 Li,W.; Wang, H.; Xu, X.G. and Yu, Y. “Simultaneous Nanoscale Imaging of Chemical and Architectural Heterogeneity on Yeast Cell Wall Particles” Langmuir 2020, 36, 22, 6169–6177 Wang, H.; Janzen, E.; Wang, L.; Edgar, J.H. and Xu, X.G. “Probing Mid-Infrared Phonon Polaritons in the Aqueous Phase” Nano Letters 2020, 20, 5, 3986-3991. Jakob, D.S.; Wang, H. and Xu, X.G. “Pulsed Force Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy” ACS Nano 2020, 14, 4, 4839-4848. Wang, L.; Wagner, M.; Wang, H.; Pau-Sanchez, S.; Li, J.; Edgar, J.H. and Xu, X.G. “Revealing Phonon Polaritons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride by Multi-Pulse Peak Force Infrared Microscopy” Advanced Optical Materials 2019, 8, 5, 1901084. Wang, H.; Li, J.; Edgar, J.H. and Xu, X.G. “Three-Dimensional Near-field Analysis through Peak Force Scattering-Type NearField Optical Microscopy” Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 1817-1825. Wang, L.; Jakob, D.S.; Wang, H.; Apostolos, A.; Pires, M. and Xu, X.G. “Generalized Heterodyne Configurations for Photoinduced Force Microscopy” Analytical Chemistry, 2019, 91, 20, 13251. Phillips, C.; Gilburd, L.; Xu, X.G. and Walker, G.C. “Surface and Volume Phonon Polaritons in Boron Nitride Nanotubes” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2019, 10, 17, 4851.. Liz Young After a difficult spring, research is back up and running in the Young Lab at Lehigh! The laser is on, molecules are being synthesized, and photophysics are being measured! Before the shutdown, we welcomed a new post-doctoral researcher, Dr. Tao Huang and Prof. Young organized a successful in-person international photochemistry conference (see article on Pg. 5.) Over the spring and summer, the Young Lab held virtual group meetings to discuss research, chemistry, well-being and diversity in chemistry sparked by the "Black Lives Matter" and "Shut Down STEM" (https://www.shutdownstem.com/action) movements. Professor Young published several articles over the past year on her work with proton-coupled electron transfer, the photophysics of several interesting donor-acceptor systems, and on the photophysics of antimony sulfide as a light absorbing material for next generation solar cells (see below). Included in the publication is a perspective piece in Science on how to design first-row transition metal complexes for photochemical reactions. Oldacre, A.; Young, E.R.* “Iron Hits the Mark.” Science, 2019, 363, 225-226. Further, Professor Young’s work with the Chemistry Women Mentorship Network (ChemWMN, https://brandicossairt.wixsite.com/chemwmn) was highlighted in an editorial published concurrently in Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, and ACS Central Science. Coissart B.M.*, Dempsey, J.L.*, Young, E.R.* “The Chemistry Women Mentorship Network (ChemWMN): A Tool for Creating Critical Mass in Academic Chemistry.” Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 1249312496.
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