Prof. Zhongling Wang, Regents Professor of Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, the recipient of 2006 Lee Hsun Lecture Series on Materials Science, visited the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS), from 12-13 Nov. 2006.

During his visit, Prof. Wang gave two lectures entitle: (1)Polar Surface Induced Novel Growth Phenomena of Semiconducting and Piezoelectric Oxide Nanostructures, (2) Nanogenerators – from discovery to its updated progress, and held meeting with Director Prof. Ke Lu and Deputy Director Prof. Huiming Cheng, Prof. Wang also held a discussion with scientists and Ph.D students of Advance Carbon Division.

Dr. Wang received his Ph.D in Physics from Arizona State University in 1987. After a year of post-doctoral in the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988, Dr. Wang was awarded a Research Fellowship by the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England. He received a U.S. Department of Energy Research Fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1989, and one year later he was appointed as a Research Associate Professor by the University of Tennessee. In 1993, he moved to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to set up the microscopy facility. He joined Georgia Tech in 1995. As of June 30, 2006, Dr. Wang has authored and co-authored four scientific reference and textbooks and over 440 peer reviewed journal articles, 55 review papers and book chapters, edited and co-edited 14 volumes of books on nanotechnology, and held 20 patents and provisional patents. Dr. Wang is the world’s top 25 most cited authors in nanotechnology from 1992-2002 (ISI, Science Watch). His entire publications have been cited for over 12,000 times. The H-factor of his publications is 54. (Lee Xun Award Office)