We welcome Vivian to the team!🙌🙌🙌

Big congrats to Rishi on advancing from the school science fair to the Fulton County Science Fair 2026! 🎉🎉🎉Rishi is a high school intern in our lab, and he works on using peptide coacervates to create reusable pH beads.

Lab Holiday Party @Sandbox VR! An unforgettable 2025! 🎄🥳🥳🥳

Wen shared her preliminary results on making Fmoc-zwitterionic amino acids at the 4-joint meeting. It was her first time presenting her project beyond our own group meeting. Well done!

A great way to end the semester — Zeyu passed his departmental written qualifying exam. Great job!

Zeyu Zhang and Qing Huang presented our poster on the colorimetric H-GER system at the BSC Conference! Thank you for helping showcase our group’s work. 👏👏👏

Lab members published the therapeutic AIE photosensitizer in ACS Appl. Nano Mater. Congrats to Wen and Xing!

Huge congrats to University of California and Omar!!! Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials were recognized. Here is a photo of Zhicheng with Omar in 2022.

Congratulations — Our Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) proposal (PRF# 69450-DNI4) has been recommended for funding by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund! We are excited to investigate rim–guest chemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons. big thanks to the Program Manager Dr. William Aumiller (Bill) for the kind guidance! 🎉🙌

Lab members published a review on pain drug delivery in Advanced Functional Materials. Thanks to the collaboration with Dr. Tang and Prof. Quan Li. 🙌 🙌 🙌 Congratulations to Xing!

Big thanks to Dr. Anant K. Paravastu for an excellent lecture on using NMR to study assembled peptides and for the beautiful visualizations of peptide assembly materials!

Thank you to Michael Stollenz and the Chemistry Department at KSU for the kind invitation! Zhicheng had a great time sharing his recent GSU work on engineering nanoparticles for color assays and drug delivery.

🎉 Congrats to Wen for receiving the Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD) Fellow Award! This honor highlights the exceptional quality and impact of her research. A big thank you to the GSU MBD Program!

Lab members published the H-GER colorimetric mechanism in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. High school students also contributed to this work. Congratulations to Zeyu and Wen!

The lab has never expanded so fast—three teammates in one week! Welcome Christina, Tianyu, and Wanqi!

We welcome Qing and Jiahao to the team as undergraduate students! We look forward to working with you all soon.

We were delighted to welcome Yu-Ci from Dr. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert’s group to GSU-Chemistry. Thank you for the insightful talk on astrocyte biomedical engineering!

Success! The cells are thriving in NSC 544.

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Xing Wang from Southeast University to our team! With this addition, the team is now in great shape and ready to move forward.

Engineering Reports, a journal published by Wiley, has appointed Zhicheng Jin as one of its Associate Editors. He looks forward to contributing to the broader engineering community through this role.

Welcome, Lucas. We look forward to having you in the team!

Thank you to CGSA and the Chem Club for organizing this excellent CGSA symposium for GSU Chemistry!

Big thanks to Prof. Li and Weily Publisher (Responsive Materials) for the kind invitation. In Nanjing, Zhicheng shared work on coacervates as a promising drug delivery platform—great science happening in this IRMS conference!

We welcome Rishi Pai to our team!

Zhicheng and Wen enjoyed the 15th annual Southeast Enzyme Conference (SEC) in Atlanta, GA.

We are excited to have the DLS installed. Get hydrodynamic diameter and zeta potential!!!

Congratulations — our Research Initiation Grant (RIG) proposal has been recommended for funding! We are excited to develop novel coacervates-based long-acting local anesthetics. 🎉🙌

Congrats to Ruby and Jordan on their successful internship, celebrated at the Capstone event in the Invesco Building! Zhicheng enjoyed connecting with all the amazing high school interns — we welcome more students to join our lab and explore biomaterials and analytical chemistry!

Zhicheng is presenting his liquid cell TEM work at the 2025 ACS Meeting in San Diego (March 22-28). Congrats! And we thank GSU for the travel support!

Zhicheng also met Dr. William Aumiller (Bill)! One of the Program Officers of the ACS PRF, to discuss his DNI proposal.

Get ready for a colorful, hands-on drink science (Column Chromatography) adventure for kids and parents! 🌈🥤✨ Well done, Zeyu, Wen, Qing, Joshua, Jordan, and Ruby!!!

We welcome Jordon to our team! Zhicheng is showing HPLC to Jordon and Ruby.

Thanks, Andrew, for the excellent lecture on QD imaging! Grateful for the warm and welcoming help from everyone in the lab.

We thank Eduardo for making this nice newsletter!

Zhicheng’s colleague (@Lub) from his previous team in San Diego made this beautiful cover; it feels like the holiday season in the snow!

We are so happy to have our new toy, the semi-prep HPLC, and it’s separating a nice single peak for us! Come see the creative DIY Oven Module by Zhicheng.

We are glad to have Qing on our team now. He is a junior undergraduate in biology at GSU. Welcome!

Ruoyu from Prof. Gangli Wang’s team will kick off our first joint meetings, held biweekly on Fridays in NSC 441 from 1:30 to 2:30 PM. We will brainstorm topics such as nanoparticles, polymers, ligands, energy, imaging, biosensing, and microscopy!

We welcome Ruby to join our team! She will be with us through the Spring 2025.

Thanks, Yi from the Northwestern University, for visiting our lab and strengthening our collaborations!

We are happy to have you in the team. Welcome Wen! 👍👍👍

Dr. Zhicheng Jin was invited by Prof. Xing Yi Ling, the Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, to present at the 12th SICC in Singapore, where he spoke on the topic “Anisotropic Growth, Surface Functionalization, and Nanomedicine.” Many talented researchers and familiar faces were reconnected!

NSC 544 is up and running with LUX & M5000!  First color experiment launched! 🎨🎨🎨

It’s Doctor Day for our freeze dryer and vacuum pumps!  Leak patched, nozzles greased, oil changed, flange NW-barb swapped, and PVC tube fitted! We’re chemists, and we’re engineers! 🚑🚑🚑

Thanks to Prof. David Wilson for the Water Chiller! And we are spending hours on YouTube to set up the R-100 Rotovap! 🎉🎉🎉

Huge thanks to Mr. David Brown, his amazing team, and Ms. Susan Crawford for helping us move the biosafety cabinet and the -80°C freezer! NSC 544 has never looked better—teamwork really does make difference! 💪💪💪

Big thanks to Prof. Lei Li for generously sharing the CEM Liberty Blue with us! It’s now happily settled in NSC 548. Shoutout to Tanliang, Lingyun, and Zeyu for moving and testing this awesome toy. It’s up and running, and we’re loving it! 🤩🤩🤩

The Jin group had a great time at the CGSA Welcome Event for new graduate students. Thank you, the Chemistry Graduate Student Association (CGSA)! 👍👍👍

We are happy to have you in the team. Welcome Zeyu! 👍👍👍

Zhicheng Jin and David Brown are clearing NSC 548 and NSC 544. They are on fire!!!🔥🔥🔥