Dr. Hu’s expertise includes materials characterization and analysis, inorganic chemistry, and advanced functional materials preparation for petrochemistry and clean energy. His characterization experience covers a broad range of advanced technologies including X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimatric analysis (TGA), scanning/transmission electron microscopy (SEM/TEM), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), FTIR, Raman, UV-vis spectroscopy, laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and CHN-ICP elemental analysis. He has research experience and interests in the fields of natural gas conversion, petrochemistry, nanosized functional materials, inorganic/organic composites, and encapsulation and controlled-release technologies for foods, medicines, and HPC products.
Dr. Hu’s experience in chemistry and materials is applicable to problems involving inorganic and composite materials, materials characterization, components/contaminants identification, catalytic chemistry, and chemistry in foods and HPC products.
Du Y, Hu G, O'Hare D. Nucleation and growth of oriented layered hydroxides on polymer resin beads. J Mater Chem 2009; 19:1160–1165.
Wei W, Yuan L, Hu G, Wang L-Y, Wu J, Hu X, Su Z-G, Ma G-H. Monodisperse chitosan microspheres with interesting structures for protein drug delivery. Adv Mater 2008; 20:2292–2296.
Ok KM, Sung J, Hu G, Jacobs RMJ, O'Hare D. TOF-2: A large 1D channel thorium organic framework. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:3762–3763.
Wei W, Ma G-H, Hu G, Di Y, Mcleish T, Su Z-G, Shen Z-Y. Preparation of hierarchical hollow CaCO3 particles and the application as anticancer drug carrier. J Am Chem Soc 2008, 130:15808–15810.
Hu G, Wang N, O’Hare D, Davis J. Synthesis of magnesium aluminum layered double hydroxides in reverse microemulsions. J Mater Chem 2007; 21:2257–2266.
Hu G, Wang N, O’Hare D, Davis J. One-step synthesis and AFM imaging of hydrophobic LDH monolayers. Chem Commun 2006, 287–289.
Zhang Y, Hu G, O’Hare D, Wu D, Sun Y. Partially graphitized carbon filaments from as-synthesized silica/surfactant composite. Carbon 2006; 44:1969–1973.
Liu L, Cheng M, Ma D, Hu G, Pan X, Bao X. Synthesis, characterization, and catalytic properties of MWW zeolite with variable Si/Al ratios. Microporous Mesoporous Mater 2006; 94:304–312.
Ji X, Banks CE, Hu G, Crossley A, Compton RG. Multiwalled carbon nanotubes resist intercalation whereas pyrolytic graphite can exfoliate in propylene carbonate: Electroanalysis without the deleterious effects of intercalation for the detection of ammonia. Electroanalysis 2006; 18:2141–2147.
Hu G, O’Hare D. Unique LDH Morphologies using reverse microemulsion synthesis. J Am Chem Soc 2005; 127:17808–17813.
Hu G, Ma D, Liu L, Cheng M, Bao X. In Situ Assembly of zeolitic building blocks into high-order structures. Angewandte Chemie Int Edition 2004; 43:3452–3456.
Hu G, Cheng M, Ma D, Bao X. Synthesis of carbon nanotube bundles with mesoporous structure by a self-assembly solvothermal route. Chem Mater 2003; 15:1470–1473.
Wang H, Hu G, Lei H, Xu Y, Bao X. A facile and effective method for the distribution of Mo/HZSM-5 catalyst active centers. Catal Lett 2003; 89:75–79.
Zhao C, Liu Z, Zhang Z, Ma L, Xu L, Qi Y, Sun C, Han X, Chen Y, Qu Z, Miao S, Zheng C, Zhao X, Du X, Liu B, Kong H, Wang C, Hu G, Liu Y, Bao X. Characteristics of adsorption and inactivation of viruses by catalyst materials. Chin J Chromatogr 2003; 3:222–225.
Liu ZM, Zhang ZR, Xu GW, Yang L, Ma L, Sun CL, Xu L, Qi Y, Zhao CX, Ming PW, Chen Y, Zheng CL, Du XF, Han XW, Zhang T, Huang XY, Bao XH, Liu B, Liu SX, Wang AQ, Qu ZP, Miao SJ, Hu G, Liu Y. Catalytic materials evaluated by adsorption and inactivation of parainfluenza virus and cytotoxicity of mammalian cells. Chin Catal 2003; 5:323–327.
Hu G, Ma D, Cheng M, Liu L, Bao X. Direct synthesis of uniform hollow carbon spheres by a self-assembly template approach. Chem Commun 2002; 1948–1949.
Cheng M, Hu G, Tan D, Bao X. On the formation of vertically oriented MCM-22 zeolite crystal films. Microporous Mesoporous Mater 2001; 50:69–76.