Yujiang successfully defended his PhD thesis on the 5th of February – congratulations!

Yujiang’s thesis explored how wet synthesis parameters could be tuned to obtain copper oxide nanostructures of varying characteristics and understand how these relate to their performance in non-enzymatic glucose sensors. He was able to show that changes as little as a few degrees Celsius in the synthesis temperature can dramatically change the nanostructure morphology and consequently the sensing properties.

To date, Yujiang has published one paper based on his PhD work, which you can read here, with more in the pipeline. His examiners were Dr John Hardy from the University of Lancaster and Prof Gopinathan Sankar at UCL – a big thank you to both of them! Throughout his PhD Yujiang has also contributed to collaborations inside and outside of the group resulting in four co-authored papers.

We are fortunate enough that Yujiang is spending a little more time with us now in Oxford before starting a job later this year. We are excited to follow his career and so delighted we could be part of it!