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Website:

Xiangfeng Duan's Home Page.

Work Email Address:

xduan@chem.ucla.edu

Laboratory Address:

Mol Sci Bldg 2104, 2114, 2221, and 2426

Work Address:

Mol Sci Bldg 2505B

Work Phone Number:

1 (310) 267-4947

Howard Reiss Career Development Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

A Short Biography:

Dr. Duan received the B.S degree in chemistry from University of Science and Technology and China (USTC) in 1997, M.A. degree in chemistry and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He was a Founding Scientist, Principal Scientist and Manager of Advanced Technology at Nanosys Inc. from 2002 to 2008. He joined UCLA in 2008.

Awards and Honors:

UCLA Howard Reiss Career Development Chair (2008); Invention “Nanowire Thin Film Transistors” selected as one of top 25 inventions in 2007 Modern Marvel Invent Now Challenge (2007); NASA Nanotech Brief “Nano 50” Innovator Award (2006); American Chemical Society Regional Industrial Innovation Award (2006); Academy of Achievement Honor Delegate to 43rd International Achievement Summit (2004); MIT Technology Review Top 100 Young Innovator Award (2003); National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition Award (2001); Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award Gold Medal (2001); USTC Presidential Guo Moruo Scholarship (1997).

Research Interest:

Dr. Duan’s research interests include nanoscale materials, devices and their applications in future electronics, energy science and biomedical science. His research focuses on developing precisely controlled chemical synthetic approach to create highly engineered inorganic nanostructures with well-defined chemical composition, physical dimension, structure and composition modulation, investigating the fundamental electronic, optical properties and developing novel technological applications of such nanostructures. A strong emphasis is placed on multi-composition, multi-structure and multi-function integration at nanoscale, and by doing so creating a new generation of active functional nanosystems that can break the boundaries of traditional technologies. Dr. Duan is setting up a lab with the capability to synthesize and manipulate nanostructures with control of atomic precision, to study their electronic, optical properties at a single-object level, to assemble and apply them to address emerging challenges in future electronics, energy and biomedical sciences.

Detailed Biography:

Dr. Duan is an Assistant Professor at UCLA. He received the B.S degree in chemistry from University of Science and Technology and China, Hefei, China, in 1997; M.A. degree in chemistry and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2008, he was a Founding Scientist, Principal Scientist and Manager of Advanced Technology at Nanosys Inc., a nanotechnology startup founded based partly on his doctoral research. In 2008, he joined Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Duan’s research in inorganic nanostructures (nanowires, nanodots) contributed significantly to recent advancement in Nanoscience and nanotechnology. His doctoral research in semiconductor nanowires pioneered the recent blossom in nanowire based research and technology. While at Nanosys, Dr. Duan was responsible for identifying new technological opportunities based on inorganic nanostructures and advancing the newest ideas into compelling technical demonstrations. He is the leading inventor of a number of the most important nanotechnology inventions. His inventions of nanowire thin-film transistors creates a new generation of high performance flexible electronics, and invention of quantum dot flash memory devices addresses the critical challenges in flash memory technology and promises the continued down scaling. Dr. Duan has published more than 20 technical papers in leading scientific journals, and holds more than 40 patents or patent applications. His publications are highly cited by scientific and technological community across academia and industry with highest citation over 1000 times per paper and average citation over 200 per paper. His current research interests include nanoscale materials, devices and their applications in future electronics, energy science and biomedical science.

Publications:

Duan, X. Assembled semiconductor nanowire thin films for high performance flexible macroelectronics, MRS Bulletin, 2007; 32: 134-141.

Huang, Y., Duan X. and Lieber C. M. Semiconductor nanowire for multi-color photonics Small, 2005; 1(1): 142-147.

Duan, X. and Lieber, C. M. Semiconductor nanowires: rational synthesis Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscale Science and Technology, 2005; .

Duan, X., Niu, C., Sahi, V., Chen, J., Parce, J. W., Empedocles, S. and Goldman, J. High performance thin film transistors assembled from semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons Nature, 2003; 425: 274-278.

Duan, X., Huang, Y., Cui, Y. and Lieber, C. M. Nanowires nanoelectronics assembled from the bottom-up, Molecular Nanoelectronics, M. A. Reed and T. Lee, eds. , 2003; American Scientific Publishers: .

Duan, X., Huang, Y. and Lieber, C. M. Nanowire nanocircuits, McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2003; E. Geller et al., eds.: 272-276 .

Huang, Y., Duan, X., Cui, Y., Lauhon, L., Kim, K. and Lieber, C. M. Logic gates and computation from assembled nanowire building blocks Science, 2001; 294: 1313-1317.

Huang, Y.; Duan, X.; Wei, Q. and Lieber, C.M. Directed assembly of one dimensional nanostructures into functional networks Science, 2001; 291: 630-633.

Duan, X., Huang, Y., Cui, Y., Wang, J., and Lieber, C. M. Indium phosphide nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices Nature, 2001; 409: 66-69.

Xiangfeng Duan, Ph.D.