ChBE welcomes Assistant Professor Lu Xianmao

Dr. Xianmao LU joined us as an Assistant Professor on 5 Jan 2009. He obtained his BE and ME degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. After he received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in December 2005, he joined University of Washington as a Philip Morris INEST Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His PhD and postdoc research focused on semiconductor and metal nanomaterials. His current research areas include synthesis of nanostructures with novel optical, electronic, and magnetic properties; investigation of new nanomaterials for clean energy applications such as solar cells; functionalization and self-assembly of nanostructures for bio-medical, electronic, catalytic, and chemical sensing applications.