WELCOME TO the Surface & interface lab at csulb!
Our research centers on the interdisciplinary area of surface and interface chemistry of solid materials. Two major research directions in our lab are: 1) Study fundamental properties and chemical reactivities of nano-structured solid hybrid materials for energy and environmental applications; and 2) design surface-supportive porous metal-organic frameworks for drug delivery. We are also interested in designing biocompatible coatings with polymer-free porous materials.
Latest Group News
10/24/23 Congratulations to Tristan, Ian, Ben, and Victor for submitting a manuscript titled "Zeta potential and size analysis of ZIF-8 nanocrystals prepared by surfactant-assisted synthesis" to Langmuir!
10/22/23 Tian gave an invited talk at the 2023 Texas Pore Engineering Conference (TXPEC) at the University of North Texas. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Shengqian Ma!
10/1/23 Welcome Cameron Fleischer to join our lab as a MS student!
9/19/23 Congratulations to the team of Drs. Jen-Mei Chang (PI), Fangyuan Tian, Gino Galvez, Andrea Balbas, and Alex Klotz who received the NSF S-STEM grant for $2.5M to support CSULB undergraduate students in the STEM fields. This six-year project is entitled "Mentored Excellence Toward Research and Industry Careers 2 (METRIC 2)". We will start our recruitment in December. Stay tuned!
8/13-8/17/23 Several members from our lab attended and presented at the ACS conference in San Francisco! Raymond joined us for the conference! Ethan gave an oral presentation on his project of MIL-88B; Tristan and Ian co-presented a poster on the ZIF-8 project; Hakob from Dr. Joe Kalman's gave an oral presentation on our collaborative project of TiO2. Ethan received this year's ACS COLL-PUI Student Award! Congratulations!!!
7/22/23 Our lab participated in the 2023 Sharks @ The Beach Outreach Event! Thanks to Dorsa, Tiffany, and Ian who volunteered at the event. We did demonstrations of lava lamp, ferrofluid, pH testing, and MOF crystals under microscope. Over 1800 people show up to the event. It was covered by the local press. More details can be found here.
6/12/23 Four undergraduate students, Truc (Tiffany) Pho, Dorsa Kamyab, Darren Fang, and Javier Rios, joined our lab this summer. Welcome everyone!
6/9/23 Linh successfully defended her MS thesis! Big congratulations, Linh!!!
5/12/23 We had a great MS hooding ceremony this year! Congratulations to Linh, Raymond, and Ricky! A bright future awaits!
5/2/23 Congratulations to Ricky Rodriguez for winning the CNSM Outstanding Thesis Award in 2023! Congratulations to Linh Hang for winning the Loving Teaching Assistant Scholarship, and to Raymond for winning the American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Graduate Award in Chemistry this year! Big congrats!!!
