Progress in Nanoscale Characterization and Manipulation

Rongming WANG received his Bachelor and Master's Degrees in Physics from Peking University and Ph. D. in Materials Science from Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, China. In 2004-2005, he was a visiting scholar in University of California, Berkeley. Then he joined Beihang University as a Professor in physics. Currently, he is a professor in University of Science and Technology Beijing and director of Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface Science. His research interests include magnetic nanomaterial, transmission electron microscopy and interface science.

Prof. Rongming Wang has published over 200 articles including Phys. Rev. Lett., Adv. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chim. Int. Edit., Nano Lett. etc. and presented over 60 invited talks in international and national conferences, universities and institutes. The papers have been cited over 6,000 time citations by SCI journals and citation H factor of 43. He has won several awards including National Prize for Natural Sciences, Scientific Chinese Prize for People of the Year 2012, State Council Expert for Special Allowance, etc.

Chen Wang received his B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1986. After obtaining PhD degree from University of Virginia in 1992, he joined Arizona State University as a postdoctoral associate. In 1994, he became a professor of Central China Normal University. He was a faculty of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1995 to 2004, and is currently a professor of National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China.

Research in the Wang's group focuses on many aspects of surface physical chemistry and nano-bio interface, including the principle of scanning tunneling microscopy and its applications, nanoscale physical and chemical phenomena at interface, and molecular self-assembly, and single molecule physics and chemistry, etc. Wang and his collaborators have engaged in constructing low-dimensional molecular nanostructures on surfaces through multilevel self-assembling processes. Such multilevel process can be categorized depending on symmetry characteristics and nature of intermolecular interactions.

In recent years, his group has engaged in studying molecular mechanisms of peptide assemblies relating to disease diagnosis and treatment techniques. In the recent studies, the fine folding and assembling characteristics of amyloid peptides at the level of single molecules are being pursued. The insight of the assemble peptide and protein structures could provide basis for developing diagnosis and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.

He has published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals including Chem. Soc. Rev., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nano Lett. etc. He published 4 books in Chinese or English.

Hongzhou ZHANG received his Bachelor and Master's degrees in Physics at Peking University (China) and PhD in Applied Physics at Rice University (US) in 1999. He worked as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University for three years before he joined Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 2009. He is now an Associate Professor at the School of Physics, TCD and a Principal Investigator at CRANN/AMBER, the Irish national nanoscience centre. His research is focused on the applications of helium-ion microscopy in nanomaterial imaging and modification and he is recognized internationally as a pioneering researcher in the field (h-index: 30; total citation counts 4405). Since 2009, he has secured 15 research projects from diverse Irish and EU funding agencies and industries.

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