Dr. Shouzhong Zou                  332 Hughes Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
ph: (513) 529 8084
fax: (513) 529 5715

Latest News

-The Zou group, together with the Pacey group and the Cox group, is one of the teams in a $28 million Ohio Third Frontier Wright Center of Innovation Grant awarded recently to establish the Institute for Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology (IDCAST). Miami's share of IDCAST is $1 million in equipment
-Sachin graduated with Ph.D. in August 2008
-Sachin's paper is accepted for publication in Langmuir, Oct 2008
- Hongzhou and Yuqing's paper is accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Oct 2007
- Sachin and Hongzhou's paper on growth of uniform Au nanoparticle arrays is accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. June 29, 2007
- Sachin's paper on Pt overlayer coated Au nanoparticles for CO and MeOH oxidation is published in Langmuir 2007, 23, 7365-7371
-Ms. Lin Dai and Mr. Jianbo Zeng joined Zou's group as chemistry first year graduate student. Nov 2007
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Fuel cell, nanoscale materials, surface chemistry and molecular electronics 

Research in the Zou group focuses on four multidisciplinary inter-related areas.  

1). Electrocatalysis of nanoparticles - Unraveling the particle structure and reactivity relationships 

2). Surface electrochemistry - Understanding the adsorption and reactions at the electrochemical interfaces by using surface vibrational spectroscopies and scanning probe microscopies 

3). Nanoscale materials - Synthesis, characterization and application of various metal and metal oxide nanomaterials

4). Molecular electronics - Understand how the molecular structure affects the electron transport properties

Students working in the Zou group will have hands on experience on several of the following techniques: electrochemical methods, surface vibrational spectroscopy (SERS and surface infra red), UV-Vis, Fluorescence, scanning probe microscopy (STM and AFM), electron microscopy (TEM and SEM), X-ray diffraction, e-beam lithography, thermal vapor deposition, etc.  We welcome devoted and self-motivated graduate and undergraduate students to join us.