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June 05

New ASAP article: "Field Effects Induce Bathochromic Shifts in Xanthene Dyes" published in The Journal of the American Chemical Society .

May 08

New ASAP article: "A fast response highly selective probe for the detection of glutathione in human blood plasma" published in Sensors.

May 01

New ASAP article: "Progress toward red and near-infrared (NIR) emitting saccharide sensors " published in Pure and Applied Chemistry .

March 27

Congratulations to Yixing Guo for getting his degree.

Our research has just been featured in "Chemistry World", a Royal Society trade publication, see here.

Jan 03

Happy New Year 2012!

Congratulations to Soojin Lim for obtaining her Ph.D. degree.

Sep 26

Prof. Xiaofeng Yang published a paper entitled "Conjugate Addition/Cyclization Sequence Enables Selective and Simultaneous Fluorescence Detection of Cysteine and Homocysteine" in Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed .

July 04

Our research is highlighted in the American Chemical Society (ACS) Noteworthy Chemistry Section .

We are currently located in rooms 71 and 76, B1 level at the Science Research and Teaching Center (formerly known as Science Building 2).

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Our work focuses on the design and application of new sensors for the selective detection of biologically relevant molecules.

From left to right: Jialu Wang, Dr. Martha Sibrian-Vazquez, Dr. Jorge Escobedo, Dr. Mark Lowry, Lovemore Hakuna, Yixing Guo, Dr. Xiaofeng Yang (visiting professor), Dr. Soojin Lim, Shelly Chu and Aabha Barve.

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