Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Chenyu Wang from Binghamton, NY has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Chenyu Wang has demonstrated his outstanding performance in materials chemistry synthesis. His original contribution to the field of nanomaterial preparation is having successfully prepared platinum-cobalt and platinum-iron concave nanocubes with high-indexed crystallographic facets. This is a worldwide breakthrough in shape-control synthesis using a solution phase synthesis strategy. He has also identified a new research direction, hydrogenation catalysis, where his novel nanocrystals can be applied, demonstrating an improved turnover frequency and superior catalytic stability. He has nine publications to his credit in journals including Nanotechnology, Nanoscale and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He also "possesses a high interest and exceptional ability in establishing research networks," actively disseminating his research to the chemistry community, writes his nominator. This effort has resulted in a recently established collaboration with a catalysis research group at Columbia University. "Such activity of connecting and co-working long-term with research teams from a different area" is essential for success as a scientist.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.