News Archive
June 21, 2023
Our 2nd year, Ethan, passed his qualifying exam. Good job, man ;-)
March 13, 2023
Our study on radical capture at Ni(II) complexes is now live! Check it out here. Shout out to Lin and Ethan for their hard work.
March 1, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Ju on the successful defense of his thesis. We are so proud of you and look forward to your prosperous future. :)
January 18, 2023
Congratulations to our wonderful 3rd years, Jenny and Sam, for passing their original research proposal exams!
January 3, 2023
A warm welcome to our new 1st year graduate students: Elliot, Jonathan, and Zhenyan!!! We are so excited to see all that they will accomplish!!!!!!!
October 26, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Lin for successfully defending her thesis!!! 🎓🎓 We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see you continue to shine at Merck! We will miss you, Lin! September 21, 2022
The group went on a few group outings this summer including a BBQ at Brooklyn Bridge Park and a day on Governor’s Island.
July 26, 2022
Congratulations to Sam and Jenny for passing their qualifying exams! Well done!! :)
May 31, 2022
Check out Luchuan’s new paper in Organometallics on studying bis- and bioxazoline Ni complexes.
April 4, 2022
Congratulations to Jenny for being awarded the NSF-GRFP!!! :)
March 1, 2022
The group welcomes our new postdoc, Jambu! February 4, 2022
Congratulations to Mason and Sam on their paper published in ACS Catalysis! 🥳🥳
January 31, 2022
The group welcomes our new undergraduate students, Kapil and Maureen!
January 3, 2022
The group welcomes our first year student, Ethan!
November 30, 2021
Goodbye, Clifton and Max! :’( After two years, Clifton is moving on from the Diao group. And after 2 months, Max is returning to Germany to finish his studies. Best wishes and we will miss you both!!
September 21, 2021
We’re on instagram now! Check it out.
September 20, 2021
We’ve been awarded a DoE grant to help combat plastic waste! ♻
August 26, 2021
Two new electroanalytical focused papers (both first authored by Qiao Lin) have just been published! Check them out below-
2. Experimental Electrochemical Potentials of Nickel Complexes
August 17, 2021
Goodbye, Yongliang! 👋 The group went to Governors Island to bid farewell to Yongliang, who will be heading off to the Zhang group at UCSB soon. Best of luck and enjoy the beaches! We will miss you!!
August 16, 2021
A lot has happened in the past year that we haven’t really kept up with, here are some of the highlights since April 2 2020:
-The group has published 5 papers
-Ben received the NSF GRFP
-We welcomed two new students: Jenny and Sam
-Mason, Greg, and Ben passed their qualifying exams
-Undergraduates Gabe and Claire graduated and have gone off to start graduate school at UC Berkeley and Harvard (respectively).
-The group had a summer outing at Brooklyn Bridge Park
April 2, 2020
Check out our new publication in Accounts of Chemical Research!
January 27, 2020
Congratulations to Lin for being awarded the 2020 WCC/Merck Research Award ! She is one of eight national winners and will be presenting her research at the Fall ACS National Meeting in San Francisco!
December 17, 2019
The Diao group held their annual holiday party at the NYU Torch Club this year.
November 9, 2019
The Diao group had a brunch for women empowerment! #WomeninSTEM
October 18, 2019
The Diao group went to the Frontiers of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Lecture Series at Columbia University. Good job to David and Lin for presenting posters!
October 8, 2019
Congrats to Lin for her mechanism study of Ni-catalyzed reductive dicarbofunctionalizations of alkenes being published in J.A.C.S. !
September 13, 2019
We just published a review on mechanisms of nickel-catalyzed cross couplings, check it out!
September 3, 2019
Welcome to our new postdoc Clifton!
August 27, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Justin Diccianni on his successful thesis defense! Good luck in your future endeavors, you will be missed!
July 30, 2019
Congratulations to Lin for the Diao group’s first Chemrxiv publication, check it out!
July 16, 2019
Congratulations to Justin for publishing in Angewandte!
July 1, 2019
We updated our group website!
June 3, 2019
Welcome to Margot and Charlie! These students are a part of NYU’s Chemical Biology REU program and will be spending their summer getting research experience in our group.
May 7, 2019
Congratulations to Justin and Mason for recently publishing in Tetrahedron!
February 4, 2019
Our group is now on Twitter!
January 25, 2019
Congratulations to David and Lin for recently publishing in Angewandte!