Confirmed Speakers
Zhonglin Wang
Georgia Tech & BINN
Zhong Lin Wang is the Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Director of the Institute of CUSPEA Technology (Wenzhou), and Hightower Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Wang has received 2019 Albert Einstein World Award of Science, 2019 Diels-Planck lecture award, 2018 ENI award in Energy Frontiers (the “Nobel prize” for energy), 2015 Thomas Router Citation Laureate, 2011 MRS Medal from Materials Research Soci., et al. Dr. Wang was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of European Academy of Sciences, and international fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is the founding and chief editor of an international journal Nano Energy, which now has an impact factor of 17.88. Dr. Wang pioneered the nanogenerators field for distributed energy, self-powered sensors, and large-scale blue energy. He coined the fields of piezotronics and piezophototronics for third-generation semiconductors. His Google scholar citation is over 290 000 with an h index of 261. Among 100 000 scientists across all fields worldwide, he is ranked #5 in the entire career scientific impact and #1 in 2019.
Xudong Wang
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Prof. Xudong Wang is the Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Wisconsin – Madison, and the Energy & Sustainability thrust Leader at the Grainger Institute for Engineering. Dr. Wang received his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2005. His current research interests include developing advanced nanomaterials and nanodevices for mechanical energy harvesting from human activities for biomedical applications; and understanding the coupling effect between piezoelectric polarization and semiconductor functionalities. He has won number of prestigious national and international awards, including PECASE, NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, etc. He has published more than 170 papers on peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature, Nature Energy, etc. His current h-index is 75.
Paul S. Weiss
University of California, Los Angeles
Paul S. Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair and is a distinguished professor of chemistry & biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science & engineering at UCLA, where he was previously director of the California NanoSystems Institute. He studies the ultimate limits of miniaturization, developing and applying new tools and methods for atomic-resolution and spectroscopic imaging and patterning of chemical functionality. He and his group apply these advances in other areas including neuroscience, microbiome studies, tissue engineering, and high-throughput gene editing. He led, coauthored, and published the technology roadmaps for the BRAIN Initiative and the U.S. Microbiome Initiative. He has won a number of awards in science, engineering, teaching, publishing, and communications. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, AAAS, ACS, AIMBE, APS, AVS, Canadian Academy of Engineering, IEEE, MRS, and an honorary fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society and Chemical Research Society of India. He is the founding and current editor-in-chief of ACS Nano.
Lars Samuelson
Lund University, Sweden & Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Lars Samuelson got his PhD in Physics in 1977 followed by a post-doc at IBM San José Research Centre. In 1986 he became full Professor in Semiconductor Physics at Chalmers/G?teborg University. In 1988 he returned to a Professorship in Semiconductor Electronics at the Physics Department at Lund University, at the time when he initiated the interdisciplinary research center the Nanometer Structure Consortium, later named NanoLund, today engaging more than 300 scientists. He has recently taken on a 50% position as a Distinguished Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in Shenzhen, China, acting as Director of a Research Center on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.He became a Fellow of the Inst. of Physics (FInstP) in 2004, of the American Physical Society (APS, Materials Physics) in 2009, and in 2020 he became Fellow International of the Japanese Society for Applied Physics (JSAP). He became a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics class) in 2006 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2007. In 2008 he was appointed “Einstein Professor” by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he was awarded the IUVSTA Prize for Science for the Triennium 2010-2013 and in 2014, the Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience. Lars Samuelson is the Founder and Chief Scientist of four start-up companies engaged in commercialization of the nanowire and nanomaterials technologies, in QuNano AB, GLO AB, Sol Voltaics AB and Hexagem AB. Samuelson is the author of well over 700 articles (h-index 86, Web-of-Science, listed in the top 1% highly cited researchers by Web-of-Science), and has given >300 plenary/invited talks at international conferences and workshops.
Jianhua Hao
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jianhua Hao is currently Chair Professor of Materials Physics and Devices in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Jianhua Hao has published more than 300 SCI papers, including the recently published high-impact journal papers as corresponding author in Nature Materials, Nature Commun., Adv. Mater., JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., Adv. Energy Mater., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., and Nano Lett.. Prof. Hao has received "Natural Science Award by the Ministry of Education", “TechConnect Global Innovation Award”, “Special Merit Award and Gold Medal of Geneva”, and President’s Award in PolyU. He serves as an Associate Editor of InfoMat (Wiley). He is selected as Hong Kong RGC Senior Research Fellow, Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor. He is elected as Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA Fellow), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and Fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP).
Chi Zhang
Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems
Prof. Chi Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2009. After graduation, he worked in Tsinghua University as a postdoc research fellow and NSK Ltd., Japan as a visiting scholar. He now is the principal investigator of Tribotronics Group in Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Prof. Chi Zhang's research interests are triboelectric nanogenerator, tribotronics, self-powered MEMS/NEMS, and applications in sensor networks, human-computer interaction and new energy technology. He has been awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China for Excellent Young Scientist Award, and also granted by Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and CAS. He has published over 130 papers and attained 40 patents.
Tom Wu
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Dr. Tom Wu received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University and Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney as a full professor, he worked as postdoc in Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, assistant professor in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, and associate professor in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Dr. Wu has authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers with over 21,000 citations and a H-index of 81 (Google Scholar) in the areas of oxide thin films, nanomaterials, and hybrid perovskites, with a focus on their electronic, magnetic, and optical functionalities. He is among the 2019 and 2020 Clarivate Analytics List of Highly Cited Researchers. He also serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Jiangyu Li
Southern University of Science and Technology
Jiangyu Li joins Southern University of Science and Technology in 2020, and serves as the Chair in the Department of Materials and Science and Engineering. Prior that, he was a Research Scientist at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington. He obtained his B.E. degree in 1994 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder. Li works in the general field of mechanics and physics of materials, focusing on advanced scanning probe microscopy and its applications in functional materials. He has published over 200 journal articles, and has been recognized by Sia Nemat-Nasser Medal from ASEM, Young Investigator Award from ICCES, and Microscopy Today Innovation Award from Microscopy Society of America. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Physics and Science Bulletin.
Ehud Gazit
Tel Aviv University
Ehud Gazit FRSC FNASc OSSI is a Professor and Endowed Chair at the School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and a member of the Executive Council of Tel Aviv University. Gazit received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude) after completing his studies at the Special Program for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. (with highest distinction) as a Clore Fellow at the Department of Membrane Research and Biophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science in 1997. For his Ph.D. work, he received the John F. Kennedy Award. He has been a faculty member at Tel Aviv University since 2000, after completing his postdoctoral studies as a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA, USA where he also had held a visiting appointment (2002–2011). He also had a visiting appointment at St John's College, Cambridge University, Senior Visiting Professor appointment at Fudan University, China and a Guest Professor appointment at Ume? University, Sweden
Hua Zhang
City University of Hong Kong
Hua Zhang is the Herman Hu Chair Professor of Nanomaterials in Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in 1998 in Peking University. In 2006-2009, he worked as assistant/associate/full professor in Nanyang Technological University. His current research interests focus on phase engineering of nanomaterials (PEN), 2D nanomaterials, nanomaterials with unconventional phases and amorphous phase, and epitaxial growth of heterostructures for applications in catalysis, clean energy, and (opto-)electronic devices. He was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His numerous awards and honors include "Highly Cited Researchers" in Chemistry and Materials Science in 2015-2020 and in Materials Science in 2014, one of 19 “Hottest Researchers of Today” in the world in 2015 and one of 17 “Hottest Researchers of Today” and No. 1 in Materials and More in the world in 2014 (Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters. He has published more than 520 papers with, the citations >90,000 and H-index=148 (Web of Science), and the citations >104,000 and H-index=157 (Google Scholar).
Hui-Ming Cheng
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, CAS; Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS,
Prof. Hui-Ming Cheng is a Professor and the founding director of the Advanced Carbon Research Division of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, IMR CAS since 2001, and the Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, since 2021. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of TWAS. His research activities focus on carbon nanotubes, graphene, other 2D materials, energy storage materials, photocatalytic materials, and bulk carbon materials. He has published over 750 papers with a WoS h-index of 139, and is a Highly Cited Researcher in both chemistry and materials science fields. He has given over 190 plenary/keynote/invited lectures at various conferences, and won two State Natural Science Award of China in 2006 and 2017, Charles E. Pettinos Award from American Carbon Society, Felcht Award from SGL, Germany, and ACS Nano Lecture Award. He now is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Energy Storage Materials and Associate Editor of Science China Materials.
Yuanzheng Yue
Aalborg University, Denmark
Yuanzheng Yue is a Professor of Chemistry at Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. In 1995, he received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science at Technical University of Berlin. In 1998, he established the first inorganic glass research laboratory of Denmark. His research activities focus on glass science and technology, metal-organic framework glasses, metallic glasses, and amorphous materials for thermal insulation and energy storage. He has published over 320 peer-refereed papers in journals including Nature and Science. He has delivered 110 invited talks at international conferences. He is a council member of the International Commission on Glass (ICG), the founding chair of the ICG Technical Committee for Glass Fibers. He holds Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog in Denmark. He is Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.
Wojciech Lipiński
The Australian National University
Wojciech Lipiński obtained his Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from Warsaw University of Technology (2000), doctorate in mechanical and process engineering from ETH Zurich (2004), and habilitation in energy technology from ETH Zurich (2009). He has published over 170 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is serving on editorial boards of Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Computational Thermal Sciences, and Solar Energy. Dr Lipiński’s contributions to research and education have been recognised with several honours and awards including the the Elsevier/JQSRT Raymond Viskanta Award in Radiative Transfer (2013), the Future Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (2014), and the Yellot Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2020). He is Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2021).
Yang Yang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Physics and Applied Physics from the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Yang has more than 430 refereed papers; more than 30 issued patents, and more than 200 plenary, keynote, and invited talks. He has accumulated of more than 120,000 citations and his H-Index is ~160 as May of 2021. His major research interests are in the solar energy and highly efficient electronic devices. Currently he is the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair Professor at UCLA. He has received the following honors/awards: invited to join the Advanced Materials Hall of Fame (2021); Highly Cited Researcher in three major fields: Materials Science, Chemistry, and Physics, Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics); 2019 Sustainable Energy Award. UK Royal Society of Chemistry; Highly Cited Researcher in both Materials Science and Chemistry Categories (2013-2016, & 2020).
Yadong Yin
University of California, Riverside
Prof. Yadong Yin received his B.S. in 1996 and M.S. in 1998 in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China, and then received a Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Washington, Seattle, by working with Prof. Younan Xia. In 2003 he became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos, and then a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2005. He joined the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside in 2006, and became a Full Professor in 2014. His recent recognitions include Cottrell Scholar Award (2009), DuPont Young Professor Grant (2010), 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant (2010), NSF CAREER award (2010), NML Researcher Award (2016), and MRS Fellow (2020). Being recognized as one of the world's most highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics from 2014 to 2020, he is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Also, he serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, such as Advanced Functional Materials, Science China Materials, Research, Nano Letters, and Chemical Reviews.
Zhifeng Ren
University of Houston
Zhifeng Ren is an M. D. Anderson Chair Professor of Department of Physics and the Director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TcSUH). He received his BS in 1984 from Xihua University, MS in 1987 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and PhD in 1990 from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on thermoelectrics with high ZT, boron arsenide single crystals for high thermal conductivity, enhanced oil recovery, water splitting for H2 generation, heated filters for catching and killing SARS-CoV-2 causing COVID-19 pandemic, carbon nanotubes, solar absorbers, flexible transparent conductors, superconductors, etc.
Peter Müller-Buschbaum
Technical University of Munich
Peter Müller-Buschbaum is full professor heading the Chair of Functional Materials at the Technical University of Munich in the Department of Physics, scientific director of the Munich neutron source FRM-II and scientific director of the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Zentrum MLZ. He is the German representative at the European Polymer Federation, Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and heading Bavarian key laboratory TUM.solar and the Network for Renewable Energies (NRG) of the Munich School of Engineering (MSE).
Qing Zhang
School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University
Qing Zhang is a professor at Centre of Micro-/Nano-electronics, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His research interests cover nanomaterials and nano/micro-electronic devices, carbon/silicon based thin films, etc. His attention focuses on carbon nanotube and nanostructure-based devices and fundamentals, etc. He and his group members have studied functionalized carbon nanotubes for several types of sensors, logic circuits and Li-ion batteries, etc. He has published more than 260 peer-review scientific papers in the fields of electronic materials, physics and devices for data processing, sensing and energy storage and harvesting.
Il-Doo Kim
KAIST
Prof. Il-Doo Kim received his Ph.D. degree (2002) from KAIST. From 2003 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Harry L. Tuller at MIT. He is a chair professor at KAIST (Department of Materials Science and Engineering). The Il-Doo Kim group’ research work is focused on novel synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials optimized for application in ultra-sensitive chemical sensors (exhaled breath gas analysis for disease diagnosis), highly efficient energy storage devices (Li-ion batteries), and water-driven energy harvesting system. Prof. Kim has published over 324 articles, 5 book chapters, and holds 230 international patents. Moreover, a number of patents related with nanofiber synthesis and applications have been successfully licensed to 9 companies. Prof. Kim is an Associate Editor of the ACS Nano, a member of Young Korea Academy Science and Technology (YKAST). He is a director of Membrane Innovation Center at KAIST.
John A. Rogers
Northwestern University
John A. Rogers is the Simpson/Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Northwestern University, where he is also Director of the Institute for Bioelectronics. He has published more than 750 papers. he is a co-inventor on more than 100 patents and he has co-founded several successful technology companies. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the MRS Medal (2018) and the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Qifa Zhou
University of Southern California
Qifa Zhou received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is currently a professor of Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology at the University of Southern California. Dr. Zhou is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He has published more than 290 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communication and Science Advances. His research focuses on the development of piezoelectric composites and piezoelectric single crystal for high-frequency ultrasonic elastography, stimulation on ocular tissue, intravascular and photoacoustic/OCT imaging as well as energy harvesting on biomedical applications.
Xueliang (Andy) Sun
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr. Andy (Xueliang) Sun is a Full Professor and senior Canada Research Chair (Tier I) at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Sun is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Sun’s research is focused on advanced materials for energy conversion and storage including Li batteries and fuel cells. Dr. Sun is an author and co-author of over 550 refereed-journals with H-index of 100 and citations of over 38,000 times. Dr. Sun is a highly cited researcher. Dr. Sun received various awards such as Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry Winner from Canada Chemistry Society (2018), Award of Merit of the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (2018), and Western Hellmuth Prizes (2019). Dr. Sun is a Vice Chairman of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of “Electrochemical Energy Review” under Spring-Nature.
Susan Trolier-McKinstry
Penn State
Susan Trolier-McKinstry is an Evan Pugh University Professor and Steward S. Flaschen Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering. Her main research interests include thin films for dielectric and piezoelectric applications. She directs both the Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics and the Center for Three-Dimensional Ferroelectric Microelectronics. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Ceramic Society, IEEE, and the Materials Research Society, and an academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. She currently serves as an associate editor for Applied Physics Letters. She was 2017 President of the Materials Research Society; previously she served as president of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society, as well as Keramos
Jun Yang
Western University
Jun Yang is Professor in Mechanical & Materials Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and Director of WIN 4.0 (Western’s Industry 4.0 Network) at Western University (The University of Western Ontario). He is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). His research interests include Industrial Internet, Intelligent Manufacturing, Internet of Things, Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, Printed Electronics, Metamaterials, MEMS, Flexible/wearable Electronics, Sensors and Actuators, Biophysics and Surface Science. He has published ~180 papers in high quality journals. He holds 28 granted/pending patents. Three of his inventions have been licensed to industries for mass production. He has given ~ 100 plenary/keynote/invited talks on conferences, symposiums and workshops. Dr. Yang was a recipient of 2006 PetroCanada Young Innovators Award, 2009 Early Researcher Award, 2012 University’s Faculty Scholar Award, 2012 and 2014 Western Innovation Funds Award, Second place, 3rd China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 2015 Xerox UAC Award, 2016 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award and 2017, 2018, 2019 Western’s Vanguard Awards and 2019 Engineering Award for Excellence in Research at Western, Significant Achievement Award, UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) Global Science and Technology Innovation Center, 2020.