Keynote Speakers
Ling Zang,
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Nano Institute of Utah,
University of Utah, USA.
Biography:
Dr. Ling Zang is a USTAR professor at University of Utah affiliated with the Department of Materials science and Engineering, and Nano Institute of Utah. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, AAAS Fellow, and was previously an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, NSF CAREER Award winner, and K. C. Wong Foundation Research Fellow. Dr. Zang earned his B.S. in physical chemistry from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. in chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on nanoscale imaging and molecular probing, organic semiconductors and nanostructures, optoelectronic sensors and nanodevices, and photocatalysis and photovoltaics for conversion of solar energy, with the goal to achieve practical applications in the areas of public safety, renewable energy and environmental protection. Dr. Zang has been awarded various grants from federal funding agencies (e.g., NSF, DHS, DOE/ARPA-E, NASA, etc.), industries (e.g., Gentex), and private organizations (e.g., Gates Foundation) to support his broad range of research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Beyond the regular faculty duty on campus, Dr. Zang also remains active in organizing and chairing the nanotechnology sessions of various national and international conferences, and reaching out to K-12 students and publics for education of nanotechnology and the impacts to society and industry. Dr. Zang has also been striving to foster the technology transfer and commercialization. In past decades, about 30 IPs have been developed from Dr. Zang’s lab and filed for patent application through the University of Utah Technology & Venture Commercialization office. He founded Vaporsens Inc., a University spinoff, in 2011 to transfer the patented nanofiber sensor technology into market products for quick trace vapor detection of explosives, narcotics and toxic chemicals.
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Xie, Guohua
Associate Professor; FRSC
Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials
Sauvage Center for Molecular Sciences
Department of Chemistry
Wuhan University
Biography:
Dr. Guohua Xie obtained his Ph.D. degree from Jilin University (China) in 2011, working on OLED microdisplays. From August 2011, Dr. Xie carried out his postdoctoral research at TU Dresden (Germany), sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, investigating the stability of OLEDs. From January 2013 to January 2015, Dr. Xie developed coherent organic light sources for treating skin cancer based on photodynamic therapy at the Organic Semiconductor Center of the University of St Andrews. Since January 2015, he has been serving as an associate professor at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University (China), focusing on the interdisciplinary research of solution-processed organic optoelectronic materials and devices. Dr. Xie has co-authored over 190 peer-reviewed publications with a H-index of 44 and contributed to three edited book chapters of organic optoelectronics. In 2020, Dr. Xie has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, Dr. Xie serves as guest editor respectively for “Frontiers in Chemistry”, “Molecules” and “International Journal of Molecular Sciences”. Meanwhile, he is now a member of Youth Editorial Board respectively for “Chinese Journal of Luminescence”, “SmartMat” and “The Innovation”.
Speech Title: Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Devices.
Abstract: Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have many promising applications in active matrix displays, solid-state lighting, visible light communication, and medical treatment, which make them attractive in fundamental and applied researches. Currently, the manufacture of OLEDs mainly relies on high-vacuum thermal evaporation, which is highly expensive and complicated. To address this issue, solution-processed OLEDs are favorable due to the merits of large-area and low-cost. In this talk, the state-of-the-art spin-coated OLEDs will be presented and explained, including material selection and device engineering. In addition, the innovative technologies of transfer printing and inkjet printing for solution-processed OLEDs will be elaborated, which are more competitive for large-area mass production.
Run Zhang,
Senior Research Fellow
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
The University of Queensland, Australia.
Biography:
Dr. Run Zhang received his PhD from the Dalian University of Technology in 2012. He was a Postdoc Research Fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Macquarie University (MQ) in 2012, then a Macquarie University Research Fellow at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science in 2013-2015. He joined the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, as a Research Associate in 2016. Here, he was awarded the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC DECRA) Fellowship in 2017-2019 and is now a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Emerging Leadership Fellow. He is a team leader of the biosensing and bioimaging, working on developing responsive molecules/nanomaterials for bioassay, imaging, early disease diagnosis and treatment. He has published more than 130 research papers since his first publication in 2010.
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