{"id":6,"date":"2016-09-01T09:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:16:04","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 14, 2026<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Kevin Smith group at BU on “Dehydration Pathway Study of Ultrathin Ni (OH)2<\/sub> Probed via In Situ X-Ray Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy<\/a>” is published on Surface and Interface Analysis. Congratulations to the team.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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December 2, 2025<\/p>\n

Jing Tang<\/strong> is selected as the Silver Winner of the MRS graduate student award<\/strong><\/a>. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

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September 9, 2025<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Kevin Smith group at BU on “Revealing the Electronic Structure of NiPS<\/span>3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/nobr><\/span> through Synchrotron-Based micro-ARPES and Alkali Metal Dosing<\/a>” is published on PRM.\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to the team.<\/p>\n

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Our work on “Mo Atom Rearrangement Drives Layer-Dependent Reactivity in Two-Dimensional MoS2<\/sub><\/span><\/a>” is published on JACS<\/strong>. Congratulations to Zifan Wang <\/strong>and the team!<\/p>\n

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August 7, 2025<\/p>\n

Congratulations to our high school students\u2014Karen Huang<\/strong> and Tyler Munsie<\/strong> from the RISE program, and Stephanie Xia<\/strong> and Fiona Steeves<\/strong> from the GROW program\u2014on completing a six-week summer research experience with us!\u00a0Many thanks to Zifan Wang<\/strong> and Grant McNamara<\/strong> for being such outstanding lab mentors throughout the program.<\/p>\n

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June 23, 2025<\/p>\n

Our work on “Site-Selective Generation of Sub-Band Gap Infrared Light Emission by Local Strain in van der Waals \u03b3-InSe<\/span><\/a>” is published on ACS Nano<\/strong>. Congratulations to Qishuo Tan, Jing Tang <\/strong>and the team!<\/p>\n

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May 14, 2025<\/p>\n

Hongze Gao<\/strong> received the Sugata Ray Fellowship <\/strong>from the Department of Chemistry at BU. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

April 26, 2025<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. William Boley group at BU on “<\/span><\/a><\/a>Self-Catalyzed Chemically Coalescing Liquid Metal Emulsions<\/a><\/a>” is published on Advanced Science<\/strong>. Congratulations to\u00a0 the team!<\/p>\n

April 23, 2025<\/p>\n

Our work on “Raman Fingerprints of Phase Transitions and Ferroic Couplings in van der Waals Multiferroic CuCrP2<\/sub>S6<\/sub><\/span><\/a>” is published on JPCL<\/strong>. Congratulations to Jing Tang <\/strong>and the team!<\/p>\n

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April 7, 2025<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Wanzheng Hu group at BU on “<\/span><\/a>Characteristic exciton energy scales in antiferromagnetic\u00a0<\/span><\/a>N<\/mjx-c>i<\/mjx-c>P<\/mjx-c>S<\/mjx-c><\/mjx-mi>3<\/mjx-c><\/mjx-mn><\/mjx-script><\/mjx-msub><\/mjx-math><\/mjx-container>” is published on PRB<\/strong>. Congratulations to\u00a0 the team!<\/p>\n

Jan. 17, 2025<\/p>\n

Our work on “Downscaling of Non-Van der Waals Semimetallic W5<\/sub>N6<\/sub> with Resistivity Preservation<\/span><\/a>” is published on ACS Nano<\/strong>. Congratulations to Hongze Gao<\/strong> and the team!<\/p>\n

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Jan. 2, 2025<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Wanzheng Hu group at BU on “<\/span><\/a>Long-Lived Population Inversion in Resonantly Driven Excitonic Antiferromagnet<\/span><\/a>” is published on PRL<\/strong>. Congratulations to\u00a0 the team!<\/p>\n

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Nov. 12, 2024<\/p>\n

Our work on “Nontrivial Raman Characteristics in 2D Non-Van der Waals Mo5<\/sub>N6<\/sub><\/span><\/a>” is published on ACS Nano<\/strong>. Congratulations to our master student Ching-Hsiang Yao<\/strong> and the team!<\/p>\n

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Oct. 31, 2024<\/p>\n

Our work on “Thermal Conversion of Ultrathin Nickel Hydroxide for Wide Band Gap 2D Nickel Oxides<\/a>” is published on ACS Omega<\/strong>. Congratulations to Lu Ping and the team!<\/p>\n

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Oct. 3, 2024<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work on “Vibrational Fermi Resonance in Atomically Thin Black Phosphorus<\/span><\/a>” is published on Nano Letters<\/strong>. Congratulations to Nannan Mao and the team!<\/p>\n

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Sept. 13, 2024<\/p>\n

Our work on “Unveiling the spin evolution in van der Waals antiferromagnets via magneto-exciton effects<\/a>“ is published on Nature Communication.<\/strong> Congratulations to Xingzhi Wang and the group!
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July 9, 2024<\/p>\n

We welcome Megan Nguyen,\u00a0 Jessica Klibaner<\/strong> as GROW high school students, Sophia Kong, Tanay Bodducherla<\/strong> as RISE high school students to our group for six-weeks research this summer.
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June 20, 2024<\/p>\n

Our review paper on “Advancing Nanoelectronics Applications: Progress in Non-van der Waals 2D Materials<\/a>” is published on ACS nano<\/strong>. Congratulations to Hongze Gao!
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June 10, 2024<\/p>\n

Our work \u201cObservation of Three-State Nematicity and Domain Evolution in Atomically Thin Antiferromagnetic NiPS3<\/sub><\/a>“<\/span> is published on Nano Letters<\/strong>. Congratulations to Qishuo Tan and Connor Occhialini from Comin group at MIT.<\/p>\n

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June 7, 2024<\/p>\n

Lu Ping<\/strong> successfully defended her PhD. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

April 8, 2024<\/p>\n

Congratulations to our undergraduate student Chanmin Woo<\/strong> on receiving the UROP<\/strong> fund to support his summer research in the group.<\/p>\n

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February 15, 2024<\/p>\n

Our work \u201cSynthesis of 2D layered transition metal (Ni, Co) hydroxides via edge-on condensation<\/a>\u201d is published on Scientific Reports<\/strong>. Congratulations to Lu Ping and the team.<\/p>\n

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February 14, 2024<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Our work “<\/span><\/span><\/a>Raman enhancement induced by exciton hybridization in molecules and 2D materials<\/a>” is published on npj 2D Materials and Applications<\/strong>. <\/strong>Congratulations to Rick Kitadai and the team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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January 26, 2024<\/p>\n

Jun Cao<\/strong> successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

December 27, 2023<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Judy Cha group at Cornell U “<\/span>Nanomolding of Two-Dimensional Materials<\/a>” is published on ACS<\/strong> Nano. <\/strong>Congratulations to the team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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December 8, 2023<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Farnaz Niroui group at MIT “Van der Waals device integration beyond the limits of van der Waals forces via adhesive matrix transfer<\/a>\u201d is published on Nature Electronics.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/strong>Congratulations to the team.<\/span><\/p>\n

December 4, 2023<\/p>\n

Our work “<\/span>Imaging Strain-Localized Single-Photon Emitters in Layered GaSe below the Diffraction Limit<\/span><\/a>” is published on ACS<\/strong> Nano. <\/strong>Congratulations to Weijun Luo and the team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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October 25, 2023<\/p>\n

Our work “Improving Strain-localized GaSe Single Photon Emitters with Electrical Doping<\/a>” is published on Nano Letters. <\/strong>Congratulations to Weijun Luo and the team.
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October 23, 2023<\/p>\n

PhD student Qishuo Tan<\/strong> received the “Best in Show<\/strong>” poster award at EXCON23.<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/c6725c61-4062-4c7e-91a7-d3b6e33e5cc9\/summary<\/a><\/p>\n

September 6, 2023<\/p>\n

PhD student Qishuo Tan<\/strong> received the Laursen Fellowship<\/strong> from the Department of Chemistry at BU. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

August 8, 2023<\/p>\n

We are very happy to have Ben Auer<\/strong> as a REU student in Engineering, Victoria Garity<\/strong> as a GROW high school student and Ryan Nguyen<\/strong> as a RISE high school student in our group for research this summer.<\/p>\n

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August 3, 2023<\/p>\n

Our work “Deterministic Localization of Strain-induced Single-photon Emitters in Multilayer GaSe<\/a>“ <\/sub>is published in ACS Photonics. <\/strong>Congratulations to Weijun Luo!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our work “Determining the Twist Angle of Stacked MoS2<\/sub> Layers using Machine Learning Assisted Low-Frequency Interlayer Raman Fingerprints<\/a>“ <\/sub>is published in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. <\/strong>Congratulations to Jing Tang on her first paper in the group!<\/p>\n

Our work “Ultrathin GaN Crystal Realized through Nitrogen Substitution of Layered GaS” is accepted by Journal of Electronic Materials<\/strong>. <\/strong>Congratulations to Jun Cao!<\/p>\n

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June 27, 2023<\/p>\n

Farewell to our visiting professor Mariana Romas<\/strong> from UFMG in Brazil. Thank you for your hard work!<\/p>\n

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May\u00a0 23, 2023<\/p>\n

Our undergraduate researchers, Gillian Minarik, Ching-Hsiang Yao, <\/strong>and Nick Notarianni <\/strong>graduated this summer. Congratulations and shine on!<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 18, 2023<\/p>\n

Tianshu Li<\/strong> received PhD Outstanding Dissertation Awards. <\/strong>Congratulations!
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May 11, 2023<\/p>\n

Hikari (Rick) Kitadai<\/strong> successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

May 8, 2023<\/p>\n

PhD student Lu Ping<\/strong> received the BU Women’s Council Award<\/strong>. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

March 30, 2023<\/p>\n

Weijun Luo<\/strong> successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Jan. 24, 2023<\/p>\n

Xi Ling and Prof. Jing Kong at MIT are organizing a workshop in honor of Prof. Millie and Gene Dresselhaus & celebrating the retirement of Prof. Riichiro Saito. The workshop will be on Feb. 20 in 34-401 at MIT. The registration<\/a> deadline is Jan. 31.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

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Nov. 30, 2022<\/p>\n

Our work “Epitaxial Atomic Substitution for MoS2\u2013MoN Heterostructure Synthesis<\/a>” <\/sub>is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interface. <\/strong>Congrratulations to Tianshu Li!
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Nov. 15, 2022<\/p>\n

Our work on NiPS3 “Charge transfer-enhanced d<\/em>–d<\/em> emission in antiferromagnetic NiPS<\/a>3″ <\/sub>is online and picked by the editor as Featured Articles in Applied Physics Reviews<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Oct. 28, 2022<\/p>\n

In the past a couple of months, the group received the following good news:<\/p>\n

-Ph.D. student Hongze Gao received the BUnano BUnano Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship<\/strong> for another year.<\/p>\n

-Our work on NiPS3 “Charge transfer-enhanced d<\/em>–d<\/em> emission in antiferromagnetic NiPS3″ <\/sub>is accepted by Applied Physics Reviews.<\/strong> Congratulations to Qishuo Tan for his first first-author paper in the group!<\/p>\n

-Our collaborative review paper with Prof. Roberto Paiella group “Graphene metasurfaces for terahertz wavefront shaping and light emission” is accepted by Optical Materials Express. <\/strong><\/p>\n

-Our collaborative work with Prof. Anna Swan group “Charge Separation in Monolayer WSe2 by Strain Engineering: Implications for Strain-Induced Diode Action<\/a>“published on ACS Applied Nano Materials. <\/strong>Congratulations to Weijun and Macro who are the co-first authors!<\/p>\n

-Our collaborative work with visiting student Ran Li, “Photo-induced self-reduction enabling ultralow threshold voltage energy-conservation electrochromism<\/a>” is published on Chemical Engineering Journal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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August 15, 2022, <\/span><\/p>\n

Our work on \u201c<\/span><\/span>Dependent Anisotropic Raman Response of Atomically Thin Pentagonal PdSe2<\/sub><\/a>\u201d <\/span>is publish on\u00a0ACS Physical Chemistry Au.<\/em><\/strong> Congratulations, Weijun and the team!<\/p>\n

August 5, 2022<\/p>\n

Tianshu Li<\/strong> gets the first Ling group PhD! Congratulations!<\/p>\n

August 3, 2022<\/p>\n

Our NSF MRI<\/strong> proposal for an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) is funded! Many thanks to NSF! The instrument is expected to be arrived in the summer 2023. It will be in the CIC center in the Department of Chemistry. We welcome all researchers to use and explore this coming system.
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July 15, 2022<\/p>\n

In the past half a year, we have a few students joined the group, Zifan Wang, Jing Tang as PhD students, Xinyi Wang, Haochi Wang as master students and Ching-Hsiang Yao as an undergraduate student. Welcome!<\/p>\n

We also have two collaborative papers published.<\/p>\n

“Ultra-stable ionic-liquid-based electrochromism enabled by metal-organic frameworks<\/a>” is published on Cell Reports Physical Science. <\/strong><\/p>\n

“Rapid, multianalyte detection of opioid metabolites in wastewater<\/a>” is published on ACS nano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Dec. 29, 2021<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work on \u201c<\/span>Healing of donor defect states in monolayer molybdenum disulfide using oxygen-incorporated chemical vapour deposition<\/a><\/span>\u201d <\/span>is published on Nature Electronics<\/strong>. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Dec. 14, 2021<\/p>\n

Our work on \u201c<\/span>Phase controllable synthesis of ultrathin molybdenum nitrides crystals via atomic substitution of MoS<\/a><\/span>2<\/sub>\u201d <\/span>is accepted to publish on Chemistry of Materials<\/strong>. Congratulations, Hongze and the team!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nov.22, 2021<\/p>\n

Our work on \u201c<\/span>Electronic Raman scattering in the 2D antiferromagnet NiPS3<\/sub><\/a><\/span>\u201d <\/span>is accepted to publish on Science Advances<\/strong>. Congratulations, Xingzhi and the team!<\/p>\n

Nov.5, 2021<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Hongze Gao who just won the BUnano Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship<\/strong>! We are very proud of you!<\/p>\n

Sept. 22, 2021<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with\u00a0 Sharifzadeh group and\u00a0 Doerrer group at BU on \u201cVibrational Signature of Metallophilic Interactions in [Pt(terpy)Cl][Au(CN)2<\/sub>]<\/a>\u201d is published on <\/strong>The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. <\/strong>Congratulations!<\/p>\n

June 8, 2021<\/p>\n

We welcome Ayoub Ellouzi to our group as an REU student this summer!<\/p>\n

May 28, 2021<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work on \u201c<\/span><\/span>Resonance-Enhanced Excitation of Interlayer Vibrations in Atomically Thin Black Phosphorus\u201d<\/span> <\/a>is published on Nano Letters.<\/strong> Congratulations, Nannan!<\/p>\n

April 14, 2021<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Haoqi on his successful master thesis defense!<\/p>\n

April 9, 2021<\/p>\n

Our invited review paper on \u201c<\/span>Graphene-Based Environmental Sensors: Electrical and Optical Devices\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is published on Molecules<\/strong>. Congratulations, Rick and Meng!<\/p>\n

Feb. 24, 2021<\/p>\n

Our work on \u201c<\/span><\/span>Spin-Induced Linear Polarization of Photoluminescence in Antiferromagnetic van der Waals Crystals\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is accepted to publish on Nature Materials<\/strong>. Congratulations, Xingzhi and the team!<\/p>\n

Feb. 6, 2021<\/p>\n

Our work on \u201c<\/span>Flexible and High-Performance Electrochromic Devices Enabled by Self-Assembled 2D TiO2<\/sub>\/MXene Heterostructures<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/span> is accepted to publish on Nature Communications<\/strong>. Congratulations, Ran and Xiaoyuan!<\/p>\n

Jan. 29, 2021<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Keith Brown’s group at Boston University on \u201c<\/span>Reinforcing Magnetorheological Fluids with Highly Anisotropic 2D Materials<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/span> was published on ChemPhysChem<\/strong>. Ran contributed to the anisotropic 2D Ni(OH)2. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Jan. 16, 2021<\/p>\n

Congratulations to our undergraduate Gillian Minarik for receiving the UROP award!<\/p>\n

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December 15, 2020<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work on \u201c<\/span><\/span>Electrochemical Delamination of Ultralarge Few\u2010Layer Black Phosphorus with a Hydrogen\u2010Free Intercalation Mechanism<\/a>\u201d<\/span> was published on Advanced Materials<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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November 9, 2020<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Kenneth Burch from BC on \u201c<\/span><\/span>Modulation Doping via a Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystalline Acceptor<\/a>\u201d<\/span> was published on Nano Letters<\/strong>. Rick contributed to the CVD synthesis and transfer of graphene.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>October 26, 2020<\/p>\n

Our research on 2D MOFs is funded by ACS PRF<\/strong>! Congratulations to the team! We are grateful for the support of the ACS!<\/p>\n

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September 10, 2020<\/p>\n

Xi joined the Editorial Board of Carbon Trends<\/em><\/strong>, an Elsevier’s NEW GOLD OPEN ACCESS journal, a companion title to Carbon<\/em>. Click here<\/a> to know more about this journal.<\/p>\n

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September 4, 2020<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Jun Cao who just won the Sugata Ray Memorial Award<\/strong>! We are very proud of you!<\/p>\n

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August 14, 2020<\/p>\n

Ling group’s research on the synthesis of new 2D crystals via selective atomic substitution is funded by DOE<\/strong>! Congratulations to the team! We are grateful for the support of the DOE!<\/p>\n

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August 7, 2020<\/p>\n

Xi featured for NSF Career Award<\/strong> in The Brink<\/a>.<\/p>\n

July 9, 2020<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Han Wang from USC on “<\/span>High tunnelling electroresistance in a ferroelectric van der Waals heterojunction via giant barrier height modulation” was published on Nature Electronics<\/strong>. Jun contributed to the materials synthesis and characterization of CuInP2S6 crystal.\u00a0 (Link)<\/a><\/p>\n

July 7, 2020<\/p>\n

We congratulate Weijun Luo for his work “Anisotropic Phonon Response of Few\u2010Layer PdSe2<\/sub> under Uniaxial Strain<\/span>” published on Advanced Functional Materials!!\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations, Weijun! (Link)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

June 18, 2020<\/p>\n

Xi won the BU Ignition Award<\/a>. Congratulations to the Team!<\/p>\n

June 15, 2020<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work on “Deep\u2010Learning\u2010Enabled Fast Optical Identification and Characterization of 2D Materials” was published on <\/span>Advanced Materials<\/strong>! (link<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

3-3-2020<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Kenneth Burch at Boston College on “Dielectrophoresis assisted rapid, selective and single cell detection of antibiotic resistant bacteria with G-FETs” was published on <\/span>Biosensors and Bioelectronics<\/strong>! (link<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

2-19-2020<\/p>\n

Xi received NSF CAREER Award<\/a>. Congratulations! Thanks for the support of NSF!<\/p>\n

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2-1-2020<\/p>\n

We welcome Haoqi Ren to join us as a master student in Materials Science and Engineering<\/span>! Hope he will have fruitful years in the group!<\/p>\n

1-15-2020<\/p>\n

We welcome Lu Ping to join us as a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering<\/span>! Hope she will have fruitful years in the group!<\/p>\n

1-1-2020<\/p>\n

Our collaborative project with Prof. Tomas Palacios<\/a> at MIT got funded by Semiconductor Research Corporation<\/a> (SRC<\/strong>). Congratulations! Thanks for the support of SRC!<\/p>\n

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12-11-2019
\nWe welcome Qishuo Tan to join us as a Ph.D. student in the Department of\u00a0<\/span>Chemistry! Hope he will have fruitful years in the group!<\/p>\n

11-11-2019<\/p>\n

We congratulate Nannan Mao and Xingzhi Wang for their work “Direct Observation of Symmetry-Dependent Electron-Phonon Coupling in Black Phosphorus” published on the Journal of American Chemistry Society!!\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations, Nannan and Xingzhi! (link<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Our collaborative work with Prof. Hongli Zhu from Northeastern U on “Superstrong and Tough Hydrogel through Physical Cross-Linking and Molecular Alignment” was published on <\/span>Biomacromolecules<\/strong>! <\/span>(link)<\/a><\/p>\n

10-25-2019<\/p>\n

We congratulate Jun Cao and Tianshu Li for their work “Realization of 2D Crystalline Metal Nitrides via Selective Atomic Substitution\u00a0” published on Science Advances!\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations, Jun and Tianshu! (link<\/a>)
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08-28-2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Our collaborative work on “phonon anharmonicity in few-layer black phosphorus” was published on <\/span>ACS Nano<\/strong>! <\/span>(link)<\/a><\/p>\n

07-01-2019<\/span><\/p>\n

We welcome high school students, Diana Ditullio from GROW program<\/a>, Aakash Mehta from RISE program<\/a> and Helen Xiao to join our group for a 6-weeks research experience.<\/p>\n

06-14-2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Our collaborative work on “graphene-2D semiconductor lateral heterojunctions and their asymmetric hot-carrier thermalization and broadband photoresponse properties” was published on <\/span>Science Advances<\/strong>! <\/span>(link)<\/a><\/p>\n

05-23-2019<\/p>\n

We congratulate Rick (Hikari Kitadai) for his work “Enhanced Raman Scattering on Nine 2D van der Waals Materials” published on\u00a0the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations, Rick! (link<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

04-09-2019<\/p>\n

Our collaborative work “Chemical and Bio Sensing Using Graphene-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” was published on Nanomaterials<\/strong>! (link)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

02-13-2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Our work on “additive manufacturing of patterned 2D semiconductors through recyclable masked growth” was published on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)<\/strong>! (link)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

01-30-2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Our collaborative work on two-dimensional MoS2-enabled flexible rectenna for Wi-Fi-band wireless energy harvesting was published on Nature<\/strong>! (link)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

01-07-2019<\/span><\/p>\n

We congratulate Tianshu Li’s work “Probing the Domain Architecture in 2D \u03b1\u2010Mo2C via Polarized Raman Spectroscopy” published on\u00a0Advanced Materials!\u00a0<\/strong>(link)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We congratulate Maia Alberts (2018 Summer intern) got admitted into Harvard University!<\/span><\/p>\n

07-02-2018<\/span><\/p>\n

We welcome Petya Todorova (from GROW program) and Maia Alberts (Summer intern) to join us for a 6-week summer research! Hope they will have a wonderful experience in the group!
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05-17-2018<\/span><\/p>\n

We congratulate Dr. Xingzhi Wang’s work “Anomalous Phonon Modes in Black Phosphorus Revealed by Resonant Raman Scattering” published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!<\/strong> (link)<\/a>
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04-05-2018<\/span><\/p>\n

We congratulate Cathlene Del Rosario’s win of the NSF GRFP!<\/span><\/p>\n

04-04-2018<\/span><\/p>\n

We congratulate Kevin Wang received summer 2018 UROP funding!<\/span><\/p>\n

03-14-2018<\/span>
\nWe welcome\u00a0 Cathlene Del Rosario\u00a0to join us as a PhD student in physical chemistry!! Hope she will have a fruitful year in the group!<\/span><\/p>\n

01-25-2018<\/span>
\nWe welcome Kevin Wang to join us as an undergraduate researcher\u00a0in Ling group! Hope he will have a fruitful year in the group!<\/span><\/p>\n

12-01-2017<\/span>
\nWe welcome Dr. Iraj S Amiri to join us as a visiting scholar in Ling group! Hope he will have a fruitful year in the group!<\/span><\/p>\n

09-06-2017<\/p>\n

We congratulate Professor Ling just has been selected to receive Boston University Provost’s Career Development Professorship!<\/p>\n

09-01-2017<\/span>
\nWe welcome Jun Cao and Weijun Luo to join us as PhD students in physical chemistry! Hope they will have fruitful years in the group!<\/span><\/p>\n

07-07-2017<\/p>\n

We welcome undergraduate student Jiayu Lei from Harbin Institute of Technology in China to join us for summer research! Hope he will have wonderful experience in the group!
\n07-03-2017
\nWe welcome high school student Piljoo (Matthew) Jeon to join us for a 6 week summer research through the\u00a0RISE program<\/a>! Hope he will have wonderful experience in the group!
\n06-12-2017
\nWe welcome Nannan Mao to join us as visiting researcher! Hope she will have wonderful experience in the group!
\n04-19-2017
\nWe welcome undergraduate student Minxue Kan to join us! Hope she will have great research experience in the group!
\n04-18-2017
\nWe welcome Xingzhi Wang to join us as a Postdoc Researcher! Hope he will have fruitful years in the group!
\n01-27-2017
\nXi gave an invited talk in SPIE-photonics west in San Francisco.
\n12-05-2016
\nWe welcome Tianshu Li to join us as a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering! Hope he will have fruitful years in the group!
\n11-11-2016
\nXi gave an invited talk in NY state APS meeting in RPI.
\n09-01-2016
\nWe welcome Hikari Kitadai to join us as a PhD student in physical chemistry! Hope he will have fruitful years in the group!
\n09-01-2016
\nXi joined BU Chemistry<\/a> as a faculty member, with the secondary appointment in Division of Materials Science & Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 14, 2026 Our collaborative work with Prof. Kevin Smith group at BU on “Dehydration Pathway Study of Ultrathin Ni (OH)2 Probed via In Situ X-Ray Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy” is published on Surface and Interface Analysis. Congratulations to the team. December 2, 2025 Jing Tang is selected as the Silver Winner of the MRS graduate student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3733,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/xling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}