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December 2016
Dmitrii Pankratov will start his Ørsted Postdoc Programme (2 years) on December 1st under the supervision of Qijin Chi. His research will focus on implantable biosupercapacitors.
November 2016
 Postdocs Ling Zhang, Yong Xiao and Jianming Zhao, and PhD students Fei Shen and Xianyi Cao presented their work at the Sustain ATV Conference 2016, Lyngby, Denmark
 Arnab Halder won the prize for best oral presentation at this years PhD Symposium at DTU Chemistry.
Yingying Tang has started the Villum postdoc research programme (2 years) on 15th November under the supervision of Qijin Chi. She will work on the 2D nanocomposites for efficient photo-induced charge transfer.
Oktober 2016
 PhD student Arnab Halder gave an oral presentation about his work at the PRiME 2016/230th ECS Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
September 2016
Frederick Stappen Nielsen starts his PhD project Characterisation of Materials based on Graphene and Gold supported by the Lundbeck Foundation and the Danish Council for Independent Research supervised by Jingdong Zhang and Christian Engelbrekt.
 Jens Ulstrup with Jingdong Zhang and postdoc Ling Zhang gave a presentation and several discussion questions and answers at the Faraday Discussion, “Single-entity Electrochemistry” in York, UK. Presentation and discussion contributions will appear in the published volume from the Faraday Discussion.
 Postdoc Christian Engelbrekt presented his recent results with a poster at the International Conference on Advances in Semiconductors and Catalysts for Photoelectrochemical Fuel Production in Berlin, Germany.
 Postdoc Yong Xiao presented his latest results with an oral presentation at the the 3rd European Meeting of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology in Rome, Italy.
August 2016
 Jens Ulstrup gave an invited keynote talk and Qijin Chi an invited talk at the 67th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in The Hague, The Netherlands. Also contributing to this central electrochemistry meeting with orals and posters were postdocs Michal Wagner, Chengyi Hou, Rebecka Werchmeister and Ling Zhang, and PhD students Minwei Zhang, Nedjeljko Seselj and Arnab Halder.
Ling Zhang gave an oral on Cu2O catalysis of electrochemiluminescence 2nd International Meeting on Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence in Bordeaux, France.
Zhiyong Zheng started his PhD project ”Long-range interfacial electron transfer between electrode and microorganisms” supervised by Jingdong Zhang and Hans Erik Mølager Christensen.
 Feng Zhao is employed as an OTTO MØNSTED guest Professor at the Department of Chemistry from the 1st of August to the 30th October 2016. He is Deputy Director of Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion in Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xiamen China. He is an expert on Environmental Bioelectrochemistry. His host is Professor Jingdong Zhang at the NanoChemistry group.
Prof. Feng Zhao (FZ) received his Ph.D degree in Analytical Chemistry at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS in 2004, and spent five and a half years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Greifswald in Germany and University of Surrey in United Kingdom respectively. In 2010, FZ was awarded "Hundred Talents Program" of Chinese Academy of Sciences and appointed as a professor in IUE. He has been awarded National Natural Science Funds of China for Excellent Young Scientist Scientists in 2013, National Young and Middle-Aged Leading Scientists in 2014, Young Scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. He is leading a research group of over 16 students, postdoctoral and staff. His current research interests include microbial electrochemistry, extracellular electron transfer; bio-produced nanoparticles; microbial conductive nanowire; microbial fuel cells and environmental bioremediation.
June 2016
 Postdoc Ling Zhang presented her recent work with a poster at the 6th Baltic Electrochemistry Conference: Electrochemistry of Functional Interfaces and Materials, Helsinki, Finland.
April 2016
Yong Xiao starts his 2-year Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship In situ Nanoscale Investigation of Microbial Extracellular Electron Transfer from the Carlsberg Foundation.
A short story about gold and sulfur
 DTU Chemistry’s NanoChemistry group with Ph.D. student Arnab Halder and Professor (Emeritus) Jens Ulstrup have been engaged in research that explains the complex mechanisms when 1-100 nm gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) grow, and when broadly used sulfur compounds protect the NPs against destructive chemicals. In addition to resolving important aspects of gold-sulfur surface chemistry long sought after, such work has wider perspectives, as AuNPs are exploited broadly in catalysis and in medical diagnostics and therapy. The investigations were lead by Professors Jeff R. Reimers and Michael J. Ford, University of Technology of Sydney and Shanghai University, with participation of Professor Emeritus Noel S. Hush, University of Sydney and the NanoChemistry group at DTU Chemistry.
The results have just been published in the high-profile journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS).
For details, see the paper: “Gold surfaces and nanoparticles are protected by Au(0)–thiyl species and are destroyed when Au(I)–thiolates form”
Several popular science based websites have highlighted this work. See the articles in: Scimex and PHYS ORG.
March 2016
 Postdoc Jianming zhao started his Villum Foundation project ” Porous Carbon Nanomaterials for Bioelectrochemistry” supervised by Jingdong Zhang and Jens Ulstrup.
February 2016
Ph.D. student Arnab Halder together with DTU Nanotech Ph.D. student Suhith Hemanth has received DKK 250.000 from Poul V. Andersen Foundation for the joint project “3D Nanocarbon chips for microsupercapacitors and ultrasensitive detection”. The Poul V. Andersen Foundation awards only one project each year. The project aims to establish a collaboration between Ph.D. students at two DTU departments. The two groups will work together for the development of 3D Nanocarbon chip based microsupercapacitors and flexible sensing platform. Read more on the 'News for the grant'.
 Xianyi Cao started his PhD project ‘Two-dimensional nanomaterial composites for flexible energy storage and conversion devices’ supervised by Prof. Jens Øllgaard Duus and Assoc. Prof. Qijin Chi.
December 2015
 Fei Shen starts her PhD scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). The project Nanoscale bioelectrochemistry for development of enzymatic fuel cells is supervised by Jingdong Zhang and Jens Ulstrup.
Prof. Guobao Xu from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences visits NanoChemistry group from the 10th to the 15th December 2015 under international network project ‘Three Dimensional Porous Nanoelectrodes for Efficient Energy Conversion’ supported by The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.
Dr. Yong Xiao has been awarded the Carlsberg Foundation’s Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship. He will join in the group on the 1st of April 2016 and carry out research project ‘In situ Nanoscale Investigation of Microbial Extracellular Electron Transfer’ under the supervision of Jingdong Zhang and Hans Erik Mølager Christensen. Congratulations!
Ph.D student Xiaochun Tian from Xiamen University visits NanoChemistry group from 21st December 2015 to 15th March 2016 under support of a short-term research program by graduate school from Xiamen University .
Qijin Chi has received 280.454 kr to the project ‘High Energy Density Micro-supercapacitors for Portable Electronic Devices’ to establish a network betweenDTU Chemistry Rice University in USA, Shandong University (SDU) and East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in China. Congratulations!
October 2015
Jens Ulstrup receives an invitation to give a keynote talk at the 67th Annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, The Hague, August, 2016.
Jens Ulstrup gives an invited plenary talk at the 10th Frumkin Symposium, Moscow, October 2015 on recent work of the NanoChemistry group in areas of bioelectrochemistry of single metalloenzyme molecules and molecular scale nanoparticles. A visit to University of Technology of Kazan’ for meetings with cooperation partners on the way to Moscow was also arranged.
September 2015
Mikael Sandgren Bock joins the group as a M.Sc. student.
Dr. Christian Engelbrekt was granted DKK 3.47 M by the Danish Council for Independent Research (FTP) for the project “Development of new metal oxide/noble metal hybrids as plasmonic bi-functional nanocatalysts for solar energy”. The project will start in 2016 March in close cooperation with University of California (Irvine).
Susanne Helene Jensen defends successfully her MSc Dissertation, “Polymer Functionalized Graphene Nanocomposites for Controlling Super-hydrophobic or -hydrophilic Properties.”
August 2015
Dr. Ranran Wu joined our group on 16th of July as a postdoc. Ranran is an expert on bioelectrochemistry and working on the bio-nano-materials synthesized by microorganisms at the nano scale.
Dr. Michal Wagner joined our group 1st of August as a postdoctoral researched through the HC Oerstad Postdoc grant. He has a strong background in fundamental and applied electrochemistry, ranging from chemical sensors to electroactive and energy storage materials. Currently, he is developing new materials for energy storage and conversion devices.
Jonas Hagel Thorn defends successfully his MSc Dissertation, “Two-dimensional Metal Oxide and Graphene Nanocomposites for Supercapacitor Electrodes.”
Visiting professor Hongzhi Wang, Drs. Chengyui Hou, Zhiting Liu, Rebecka Maria Larsen Werchmeister, Ranran Wu, and Ling Zhang, Ph.D.-students Arnab Halder, Gunnar Olsen, Nedeljko Šešelj, and Minwei Zhang, and MSc student Susanne Helene Jensen attended the international conference, Carbonhagen 2015 (6th Symposium on carbon and related nanomaterials), Copenhagen and presented altogether eight posters.
Postdoc Christian Engelbrekt attended the 3rd and final workshop of the EU IRSES project ELECTRONANOMAT at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, presenting the work of PhD students Gunnar Olsen at CIAC and Nedjeljko Šešelj at Xiamen University, and his own work at Shanghai University.
He gave the talk "The SAMENS method for gold nanostructure syntheses: Green synthesis and electrocatalysis” at the 15th International Symposium of Electroanalytical Chemistry at CIAC.
Following this conference he gave a talk about the life of a PhD student at DTU to master students at Shandong University, Jinan.
Rebecka Maria Larsen Werchmeister joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
July 2015
Associate Professor Yong Xiao from Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences visits DTU Chemistry and presents his project ‘Extracellular polymeric substances mediated extracellular electron transfer’ in the group meeting.
Professor Renat R. Nazmutdinovfrom Kazan National Research Technological University visits DTU Chemsitry. He provides valuable contribution to several running projects in the group from theoretical calculations.
Professor Hongzhi Wang from Donghua University visits Department of DTU as guest professor supported by OTTO MØNSTED Fond from the July 10th to October 10th 2015. He is an expert on graphene and its composites for electronic and energy storage devices, electrochromic devices based transition metal oxides and conducting polymer and novel functional fiber. He introduces his work to host group and gives us a presentation on ‘Graphene for flexible supercapacitors and actuators’.
 Summary of Prof. Wang’s talk:
He is leading a research group of over 30 graduate students and his current research interests includes graphene and its composites for electronic and energy storage devices, electrochromic devices based transition metal oxides and conducting polymer and novel functional fiber.
Supercapacitors, also known as electrochemical capacitors, are one kind of energy storage devices that can give higher power density than lithium ion batteries and higher energy density than conventional capacitors, and can be charged and discharged by extremely long cycle life (100,000 cycles) with highly safety, which is the ideal option for flexible energy storage devices. We fabricated pure or hybrid graphene films by the illumination reduction and filtration assembly methods, and did many deeply research works focus on the relationship between the micro-structure of the electrodes and the electrochemical performances. In addition, we fabricated some new structure devices, including all-solid-state supercapacitors, fiberlike supercapacitors and asymmetric supercapacitors. We also did some analysis and research work on the energy storage devices under bending condition.
A family of materials with an ability to change few of its original properties by the application of any external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, electric and magnetic fields are called Smart Materials. We also developed a series of graphene-based smart materials, such as graphene based actuator. Using the strong water absorption/desorption capability of GO and good photothermal heating effects of rGO, a kind of graphene monolayer (GM) paper was prepared, which exhibited fast and powerful actuation performance in response to moisture, heat, and light. And it has potential in artificial muscles, robotic hands, and electromagnetic-free generators. We believe these graphene-based energy storage and smart materials could find a wide range of application areas including solving engineering problems with high efficiency, producing new generation wearable electronics and so on.
June 2015
Ph.D student Tingting Zhou from Shandong University (SDU) visits DTU Chemistry from 15th of April to 12th July 2015. Her visit enhances cooperation between her home group in SDU and the host group at DTU.
Associate Professor Pengchao Si from Shandong University visits DTU Chemistry from 10th of June to 10th of August. He introduces us his work ‘Development of nano electroactive materials MoS2and its application in energy storage’.
Dr. Zhiting Liu from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) visits DTU Chemistry under EU Marie-Curie Program ELECTRONANOMAT project from 22nd of June to 5th of September 2015. She gives us a presentation of her project ‘Manipulation of Surface Chemistry and Properties of Graphene and its composites’.
Jens Ulstrup holds the causery (in Danish) “Hvad sjov er der ved at se på molekyler ét ad gangen, og tror vi på det, hvis vi kan se dem?” (English ”What is fun about looking at single molecules one by one, and do we believe it if we can see them?”).
April-June 2015
Ph.D.-student Nedeljko Šešeljcompletes a 2.5 - month scientific exchange visit to State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University and School of Materials Engineering, Shandong University.
March 2015
Associate professor Qijin Chi is granted a DTU PoC to continue the development of “New Low-cost Diabetes Measuring Device”.
Mikkel Undahl-Behrend Christiansen defends successfully his B.Sc.-dissertation, “Green synthesis, structural properties, and functional investigation of nanoparticles and nanoporous gold”
February 2015
Associate professor Qijin Chi is invited to give a keynote talk in “the First InternationalWorkshop on Engineering and Applications of Nanocarbon Materials” in Jinan, Shandong, China.
Jens Ulstrup receives an invitation to give a plenary talk at the 10th Frumkin Symposium, Moscow, October 2015.
January 2015
Susanne Helene Jensen joins the group as a M.Sc. student
Jonas Hagel Thorn joins the group as a M.Sc. student
Dr. Chengyi Hou, graduated from Donghua University joins the group as a H.C. Ørsted postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Ling Zhang, graduated from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences joins the group as a H.C. Ørsted postdoctoral fellow
Associate professor Qijin Chi joined as an organizing committee member to organize “the XXIII International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics (BES 2015)”, to be held 14-18 June 2015, Malmö, Sweden.
November 2014
Associate professor Jingdong Zhang gives an invited talk at: Ph.D.-symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioanalysis, Luckenwalde, Germany, organized by University of Potsdam, Technical University of Wildau and The Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Research.
October 6, 2014
Christian Engelbrekt defends successfully his Ph.D.-dissertation, “Green Synthesis and Structural Control of Metal and Mineral Nanostructures”.
September 15, 2014
Christian Engelbrekt, joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow
Mikkel Undahl-Behrend Christiansen joins the group as a B.Sc. student
August 2014
Emil Egede Frøkjær defends successfully his B.Sc.-dissertation
October 2014
Professor Jens Ulstrup andPh.D.-student Gunnar Olsen participate in the 2nd three-day Euro-China workshop, “Molecular Scale Electrochemistry and Non-traditional Electrochemical Materials Science” held at Nano Science and Technology Center, Shanghai University.
August-October 2014
Ph.D.-student Gunnar Olsen completes a two months exchange research visit atChangchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10th June -10th August 2014
Associate professor Pengchao Si, Shandong University joins the group as a visitng scientist for two months
10th July -10th October 2014
Professor Yi Ding, Shandong University joins the group as a visiting professor supported by Otto Mønsted foundation.
July and August, 2014
Prof. Kake Zhu from East China University of Science and Technology joins the group for two months.
Associate Prof. Chongjun Zhao from East China University of Science and Technology joined the group for two months.
Associate Prof. Yanna Nuli from Shanghai Jiao Tong University visits NanoChemistry.
Jens Ulstrup (with Jingdong Zhang and Qijin Chi) gives an invited talk at the 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, ICCC-41, Singapore, Symposium on Molecular Electronics, “Electron Transfer and Ligand Substitution of Single Transition Metal Complex and Metalloprotein Molecules – an Approach to Molecular Electronics?”
Professor Renat R. Nazmudtinov, Kazan’ University of Technology, Russian Federation, joins the group as a visiting scientist for three weeks.
June 2014
Professor Jens Ulstrup gives a one-week undergraduate course, “Nanoscale and molecular scale science in chemistry and biology”, at Nano Science and Technology Center, Shanghai University.
Professor Jens Ulstrup visits Chinese academic partner institutions at: East China University of Science and Technology, Donghua University (both Shanghai), Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Xiamen University (both Xiamen) giving also four scientific talks.
April 2014
Professor Jens Ulstrup receives an invitation to give a keynote talk at the 65th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Lausanne.
March 2014
Associate professor Dr. Yong Xiao from The Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) joints the NanoChemistry group as a visiting scientist for three months from 23nd March to 20th June 2014.
March 15, 2014
Nedeljko Šešelj joins the group as a Ph.D.-student
February 2014
Emil Egede Frøkjær joins the group as a B.Sc. student
January 2014
Nan Zhu defends successfully his Ph.D.-dissertation, “Nanoscale Electrocatalysis for Chemical and Biological Sensors”.
December 2013
Mingwei Zhang joins the group as a Ph.D.-student
November 2013
Arnab Halder joins the group as a Ph.D.-student
October 2013
Ramendra S. Dey joins the group as a H. C. Ørsted postdoctoral fellow
August-October 2013
Ph.D.-student Christian Engelbrekt completes a scientific exchange visit to Nano Science and Technology Center, Shanghai University.
July/August 2013
The group organizes a three-day Euro-China workshop, “Molecular Scale Electrochemistry and Non-traditional Electrochemical Materials Science” held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
July 2013
The group’s joint work with Prof. Hongda Wang and Dr. Xian Hao, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Dr. Kasper Moth-Poulsen and his group, Chalmers, and DTU Physics is published in Nature Communications.
June 2013
Chengyi Hou from Donghua University, China joins the group as a guest PhD student for at least 6 months.
The group’s AFM work on single-molecule ligand substitution of transition metal complexes accepted for publication in Nature Communations.
Associate professor Jingdong Zhang is granted a project from FTP.
May 2013
Gunnar Olsen joins the group as a Ph.D student.
April 2013
Professor Hongda Wang, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences joins the group in a one-month visiting professorship.
Master student Wenzin Wang, Shangdong University joins the group as a three-month guest student.
March/April 2013
Prof. Jens Ulstrup completes a three-week round trip to five Chinese academic cooperation partner institutions settling the new EU-funded IRSES cooperation agreement and giving five scientific talks.
March 2013
Jens Ulstrup gives an Invited keynote talk at the 10th Annual Spring Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry,Topical meeting Bioelectrochemistry, jointly with the Bioelectrochemistry Society, “Electrochemistry of Single Protein and DNA-based Molecules – some observations and puzzles”
Professor Jens Ulstrup is appointed honorary professor at Shandong University, China and gives the talk.“Why is Single-molecule Science Interesting and Important?”
Pifu Zhang defends successfully his M.Sc. dissertation, “Chemical Preparation and Functionalization of Pristine Graphene”
January 2013
Agata Gallas Hulin defends successfully her M.Sc. dissertation, “Synthesis, Characterization and Electronic Properties and Prussian Blue Analogues”
December 2012
The group is granted a Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Network Program IRSES for the program “Molecular Scale Electrochemistry and Non-traditional Electrochemical Materials Science” (ELECTRONANOMAT), coordinating from DTU Chemistry four groups from EU and four groups from China.
Princia Salvatore defends successfully her Ph.D.-dissertation, “Electronic Properties and Assembly of DNA-based Molecules on Gold Surfaces”.
November 2012
Dr. Dongdong Zeng from Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.
Prof. Jens Ulstrup is granted a project from FNU.
October 2012
Associate professor Qijin Chi receivesis granted a project from FTP.
August 2012
Jens Ulstrup gives an Invited keynote talk at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistr,Prague, “Electrochemical Surface immobilization Triggers Iintramolecular Electron Transfer in Multi-centre Redox Metalloproteins: The Di-heme Redox Metalloprotein (P. stutzeri) Cytochrome c4”,
July 2012
The group’s joint work with Prof. Janina Kneipp, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and green nanoparticles published in Angewandte Chemie, as a cover article.
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