Congratulations to Dr. Lifang Chen and Dr. Zhi Li for successfully defending their theses and earning their Ph.D.s!
Congratulations to April Corpuz for winning first place overall at the 2009 Graduate Student Association poster fair.
Activities:
Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance Committee Member
Faculty Advisor, ACS student affiliates
Graduate Student Recruitment
President Western States Catalysis Club
Recent Publications:
Lifang Chen, Zhi Song, Xue Wang, Sergey V. Prikhodko, Juncheng Hu, Suneel Kodambaka, and Ryan Richards, "Three-Dimensional Morphology Control during Wet Chemical Synthesis of Porous Chromium Oxide Spheres", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2009, DOI: 10.1021/am900334q.
Ryan M. Richards,"Nanostructured Catalysts from the Liquid-Liquid Interface", ChemCatChem, 2009, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.200900192.
Lifang Chen, Kake Zhu, Li-Hua Bi, Andreas Suchopar, Markus Reicke, Georges Mathys, Helge Jaensch, Ulrich Kortz,and Ryan M. Richards,"Solvent-Free Aerobic Oxidation of n-Alkane by Iron(III)-Substituted Polyoxotungstates Immobilized on SBA-15", Inorg. Chem., 2007, 46, 8457-8459.
Lifang Chen, Juncheng Hu, Sib Sankar Mal, Ulrich Kortz, Helge Jaensch, Georges Mathys, and Ryan M. Richards, "Heterogeneous Wheel-Shaped Cu20-Polyoxotungstate Catalyst for Solvent-Free Aerobic Oxidation of n-Hexadecane", Chem. Eur. J., 2009, 15, 7490-7497.
Zhi Song, Lifang Chen, Juncheng Hu, and Ryan Richards, "NiO(111) nanosheets as efficient and recyclable adsorbents for dye pollutant removal from wastewater", Nanotechnology, 2009, 20, 27, 275707.
Lifang Chen, Juncheng Hu, and Ryan Richards, "Intercalation of Aggregation-Free and Well-Dispersed Gold Nanoparticles into the Walls of Mesoporous Silica as a Robust 'Green' Catalyst for n-Alkane Oxidation", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 3, 914.
Florentina Neatu, Zhi Li, Ryan Richards, Patrick Y. Toullec, Jean-Pierre Genet, Karifala Dumbuya, J. Michael Gottfried, Hans-Peter Steinruck, Vasile I. Parvulescu, and Veronique Michelet, "Heterogeneous Gold Catalysts for Efficient Access to Functionalized Lactones", Chemistry - A European Journal, 2008, 14, 30, 9412-9418.
Florentina Neatu, Alexander Kraynov, Lawrence D'Souza, Vasile Parvulescu VI, Kristof Kranjc, Marijan Kocevar, Victor Kuncser, Ryan Richards, "Iron Oxide Colloids and Their Heterogenization by Silica Sol-Gel Entrapment: Catalytic and Magnetic Properties", Applied Catalysis A - General, 2008, 346, 1-2, 28-35.
Li, Zhi, Kuebel, Christian; Parvulescu, Vasile; Richards, Ryan, "Size Tunable Gold Nanorods Evenly Distributed in the Channels of Mesoporous Silica", ACS Nano, 2008, 2, 6, 1205-1212.
MgO Nanosheets Possessing The (111) Crystallographic Plane As A Primary Surface, Method For Preparing The Same And Use Thereof, R. Richards, K. Zhu, C. Kubel and J. Hu, International Publication No. WO 2007/093415 A3, International Application No. PCT/EP2007/001312.
Supported Polyoxometallates, Process For Their Preparation And Use In Oxidation Of Alkanes, R. M. Richards, U. Kortz, K. Zhu, L. Bi, A. Suchopar and L. Chen, International Publication No. WO 2007/142727 A1, International Application No. PCT/US2007/008153.
F Neatu, A Kraynov, V I Parvulescu, K Kranjc, M Kocevar, V Ratovelomanana-Vidal, and R Richards,"Synphos modified Pt nanoclusters, their heterogenization by silica sol-gel entrapment, and catalytic activity in hydrogenolysis of bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-7-enes and hydrogenation of ethyl pyruvate", Nanotechnology, 2008, 19, 225702.
L. Chen, J. Hu, R. Richards,"Catalytic Properties of Nanoscale Iron-Doped Zirconia Solid-Solution Aerogels", ChemPhysChem, 2008, 9, 1069-1078.
J. Hu, L. Chen, R. Richards, Chapter entitled "Properties, Synthesis, and Applications of Highly Dispersed Metal Oxide Catalysts", Oxides and Oxidation Catalysis, volume 2, chapter 6, Wiley-VCH, 2008, in press.
J. Hu; K. Zhu; L. Chen; H. Yang; Z. Li; A. Suchopar; R. Richards,
"Preparation and Surface Activity of Single Crystalline NiO(111) Nano-sheets with Hexagonal Holes: A Semiconductor Nanospanner", Adv. Mater., 2008, 2, 267-271.
Marian Verziu, Bogdan Cojocaru, Juncheng Hu, Ryan Richards, Crinu Ciuculescu, Petru Filip and Vasile I. Parvulescu,
"Sunflower and rapeseed oil transesterification to biodiesel over different nanocrystalline MgO catalysts", Green Chem., 2008, (Advance Article). DOI: 10.1039/b712102d
