2021-Present
Congratulations to Mr. Wei and Mrs. Kim
July 2025
Congratulations to PhD candidate in our group, Tianyu Wei, and his wife, Minjoo Kim, who recently got married. The Ding group was happy to be in attendance for the beautiful wedding. We wish you both all the best!
CSC 2025
June 2025
Dr. Ding and Emma attended and presented at CSC 2025 in Ottawa, ON. It was a great week spent networking with and learning from other Canadian chemists!
Dr. Zhang's Graduation
June 2025
Congratulations to our group's most recent PhD, Dr. Congyang (Jason) Zhang, on your graduation! Wishing you all the best in your future pursuits.
Ian Presents at C2MCI Annual General Meeting
May 2025
Ian attended and presented a poster on the electrochemiluminescence of his Au nanocluster at the C2MCI AGM in Kingston, ON. It was great to hear from other researchers involved in the various projects of the C2MCI!
Ding Group at CanBIC-9
May 2025
Tianyu, Emma, Dr. Ding, Jess, and Zhenzhong (left to right) recently helped organize and presented at CanBIC-9 (https://canbic.ca/index.html) with Dr. Martin Stillman in Parry Sound, ON. It was a great week spent hearing talks and learning from scientists from around the world on the biological chemistry of metals.
New Paper in JPCC
May 2025
Congyang, Zhenzhong, and Dr. Qin in collaboration with Dr. Jianhui Huang and Dr. Ruizhong Zhang on spectroscopic and electrochemical insights into strategies tuning red-green-blue (rgb) electrochemiluminescence from a single ruthenium complex. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c02177)
Congratulations to Dr. Zhang
March 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Congyang (Jason) Zhang for successfully defending his PhD! We wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
Kate featured in Western News
March 2025
Checkout our Kate's article about her experience as both a music and science student in Western News! (https://news.westernu.ca/2025/03/kate-roberge/)
Congratulations to Mr. Zhang and Mrs. Wu
January 2025
Congratulations to PhD candidate in our group, Congyang (Jason) Zhang, and his wife, Jiaxuan (Josie) Wu, who stopped by the Ding lab to celebrate after getting married. We wish you both all the best!
New Paper in ChemPhysChem
January 2025
Congyang, Zhengzhong, and Dr. Chu in collaboration with Dr. Liu's group published our 1st paper of 2025 on electrochemiluminescence of graphene quantum dots. (https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cphc.202401074)
Emma Wins 5MT Competition at Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) National Conference
January 2025
Congratulations to Emma for winning 1st place in the 5 Minute Thesis (5MT) competition at the WISE National Conference hosted by the University of Toronto!
New Paper in Langmuir
December 2024
In collaboraiton with Dr. Sun, we published our last paper of 2024 on electrochemiluminescence of phosphorene quantum dots in the last 2024 Langmuir issue. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c03095)
Jessica featured on Western Chemistry Website
September 2024
Checkout Jessica's featured video about her MSc. experience on the Western Chemistry website! (https://www.uwo.ca/chem//graduate/future_students/index.html) 
Ding Research Group Welcomes Two New Members
September 2024
Dr. Ding and his group warmly welcome Master's student Ian Lee and returning student Zhenzhong Cai, who completed his 4th year thesis in our group, for his PhD. We look forward to working with you!
International Symposium on Electrochemistry and Surface Science (ISESS)
August 2024
Ziying, Emma, Tianyu, and Dr. Ding attend ISESS 2024 at Guelph University in honour of Professor Jacek Lipkowski’s 80th Birthday. Congratulations to Emma for receiving a student oral presentation award for her talk!
Emma Wins Presentation Award at 13th NanoOntario Conference
June 2024
Congratulations to Emma for receiving a student oral presentation award at the 13th NanoOntario Conference hosted by Western University!
2024 BSc Graduates
June 2024
Congratulations to Ding lab members Jessica Winslade and Zhenzhong Cai on receiving their BScs this week!
Congyang Wins 2024 CSC Travel Award
June 2024
Congratulations to Congyang for receiving a 2024 CSC Travel Award!
2023 Paul de Mayo Award for Excellence Awarded to Dr. Kenneth Chu
May 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Chu on being awarded the 2023 Paul de Mayo Award for Excellence, the highest recognition for a graduate student in Western University’s Department of Chemistry. Dr. Chu gave an award lecture to our department about his current work at the National Research Council of Canada’s Clean Energy Innovation (CEI) Research Centre in Mississauga.
2024 Fred Pattison Lecture Series
May 2024
Our group with the 2024 Fred Pattison Senior Lecturer, Dr. Jenny Yang, from the University of California, Irvine. Thank you Dr. Yang for your two lectures and for visiting with our lab to meet our group.
New Paper in Chemical Science
May 2024
Dr. Qin, Ziying, and Jason from our group in collaboration with Prof. Jianhui Huang published our 5th paper of 2024 on corannulene electrochemiluminescence. (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2024/SC/D4SC01524J)
Ding Research Group Welcomes Three New Members
May 2024
Dr. Ding and his group warmly welcome Master's candidate Jessica Winslade, Western USRI student Teresa Vu, and returning summer research student Kate Roberge. We look forward to working with you!
New Paper in Analytica Chimica Acta
January 2024
Dr. Qin, Sara, Ziying, and Kenneth published a paper on absolute chemiluminescence efficiency determination for luminol systems. Thank you to editor Xu and the four reviewers. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003267023012448?via%3Dihub)
Zack wins 2nd in Analytical and Environmental Chemistry section at SOUSCC
March 2023
Congratulations to honour thesis student, Zack, for sharing the the 2nd oral presentation prize with Finlay frmo Trent University in ANALYTICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY symposium at SOUSCC51!
Dr Ding receives 2023 Chemistry Research Award of Excellence
February 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Ding for receiving the 2023 Chemistry Research Award of Excellence. Here he presented his award lecture "Fun with Photoluminescence, Chemiluminescence, Electrochemiluminescence, Radioluminescence and Beyond".
Kenneth is a 2023 Graduate Student Awardee in Analytical Chemistry Division of CIC
February 2023
Congratulations to Kenneth on being a 2023 Graduate Student Awardee in honour of Douglas E. Ryan and Walter E. Harris by the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada!
4th Paper in 2023
February 2023
With Kenneth, Jonathan, Zackry, Shiv group, and Zysman-Colman group, we have published our 4th paper in 2023 in Langmuir. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c03391)
Kenneth wins the 2022 Roy Young Chemistry Graduate Scholarship
January 2023
Congratulations to Kenneth for winning the 2022 Roy Young Chemistry Graduate Scholarship with his research record and accomplishments on electrochemiluminescence! He gave an award lecture on Jan 18, 2023.
10th Paper in 2022
August 2022
With Prof. He, Dr. Wang, undergrad Kevin, in collaboration with Prof. Suning Wang’s team at Queens, we have published our 10th paper in 2022. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asia.202200727)
CSASS Conference in Kingston
August 2022
Dr. Ding speaking in the electrochemistry session at the Canadian Society Analytical Science & Spectroscopy conference in Kingston!
ETC-ECS Student Chapter Speaker Series
July 2022
Dr. Ding speaking at the first in-person ETC-ECS Student Chapter Speaker Series!
New Paper Dedicated to Dr. Girault
July 2022
With Dr. Qin; Liuqing, Darshil, Dr. Wang, Kenneth, Lindsay, Jonathan, Congyan, Prof. Workentin, and Prof. Pagenkopf we have published our 3rd paper in July 2022, dedicated to Dr. Girault. (https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/celc.202200605)
Kenneth Wins 2022 CSC Travel Award
June 2022
Congratulations to Kenneth for receiving a 2022 CSC Travel Award!
First Paper in Chinese, Dedicated to Prof. Erkang Wang at CIAC
June 2022
With Dr.Qin, Liuqing, Darshil, Dr. Xin Wang at Asymchem along with Kenneth, Congyang, and Prof. Pagenkopf, we have published our 1st paper in Chinesee. Dedicated to Prof Erkang Wang at CIAC. (https://www.sciengine.com/SSC/doi/10.1360/SSC-2022-0097;JSESSIONID=5d6e11e7-002b-4a5a-b580-091383c7e9d7)
First Paper in 2022
January 2022
Jonathan, Zackry, Kenneth, Liuqing, and Congyang have published our first paper in 2022 on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of graphene quantum dot LECs. (https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/celc.202101512)
New Publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society
November 2021
Mahdi published a new paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society titled "Identifying Highly Photoelectrochemical Active Sites of Two Au21 Nanocluster Isomers toward Bright Near-Infrared Electrochemiluminescence". (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c08877) Congratulations on this great achievement!
Cover Feature in Chemistry - a European Journal
October 2021
Our paper titled "Efficient Near-Infrared Electrochemiluminescence from Au18 Nanoclusters" is a cover feature. (https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202102926)
New Paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C
October 2021
Our newest JPC C paper on absolute quantum efficiency of coreactant electrochemiluminescence systems is out. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06342)
New in Nature Protocols
March 2021
A new protocol with contributions from Mahdi and Dr. Ding is now live in Nature Protocols! (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-020-00486-x)
