2021-Present


2024 BSc Graduates 

June 2024

Congratulations to Ding lab members Jessica Winslade and Zhenzhong Cai on receiving their BScs this week!

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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.

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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. 

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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

D. 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!

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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".

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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!

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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.

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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!

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ETC-ECS Student Chapter Speaker Series

July 2022

Dr. Ding speaking at the first in-person ETC-ECS Student Chapter Speaker Series!

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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)