Prof. Di Wei is currently a principal investigator at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He focuses on the application of nanomaterials and nano-hierarchical structures in the field of energy and sensors. Currently, he has published more than 100 papers as a correspondent/first author, including in the journals Nat Energy, Nat Commun, PNAS, Adv Mater, Adv Energy Mater, Energ Environ Sci, Matter, Chem Soc Rev, etc. He has published 3 English monographs in Cambridge University Press, Wiley, etc., and applied for more than 200 international patents (including PCT). As of Dec. 2022, 57 international patents and 27 Chinese patents have been granted, most of which have been successfully transferred. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and won the first prize in the Nokia Global Innovation and Excellence Award, as well as academic awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the International Electrochemical Society.
Prof. Zhong Lin Wang received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in physics. He now is the Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, Regents’ Professor, Engineering Distinguished Professor, and Director, at the Center for Nanostructure Characterization, at Georgia Tech. Dr. Wang has made original and innovative contributions to the synthesis, discovery, characterization, and understanding of fundamental physical properties of oxide nanobelts and nanowires, as well as applications of nanowires in energy sciences, electronics, optoelectronics, and biological science. His discoveries and breakthroughs in developing nanogenerators established the principle and technological roadmap for harvesting mechanical energy from the environment and biological systems for powering personal electronics. His research on self-powered nanosystems has inspired the worldwide effort in academia and industry to study energy for micro-nano-systems, which is now a distinct discipline in energy research and future sensor networks. He coined and pioneered the field of piezotronics and piezophototronics by introducing the piezoelectric potential gated charge transport process in fabricating new electronic and optoelectronic devices.
