Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Prof. Zhong Lin Wang is the Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering and Regents' Professor at Georgia Tech. He is also the chief scientist and director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His discovery and breakthroughs in developing nanogenerators establish the principle and technological road map for harvesting mechanical energy from environment and biological systems for powering a personal electronics. His research on self-powered nanosystems has inspired the worldwide effort in academia and industry for studying energy for micro-nano-systems, which is now a distinct disciplinary in energy research and future sensor networks. Prof. Wang received 2014 World Technology Prize in Materials; 2014 the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials from America Physical Society, 2013 ACS Nano Lectureship award, 2012 Edward Orton Memorial Lecture Award and 2009 Purdy Award from American Ceramic Society, 2011 MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society, 1999 Burton Medal from Microscopy Society of America.

Dr. Long Lin is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 2010 and his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Lin Wang. His research interests include synthesis of semiconductor nanomaterials, piezoelectric nanogenerators, triboelectric nanogenerators, self-powered systems, and active sensors. He has co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed journal publications on Nature, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Energy & Environmental Science, etc. His work has been cited over 2000 times by scientists in the field of nanomaterials and energy technology. Dr. Lin received the 2013 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, and the 2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.

Jun Chen received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electronic Information and Communications at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007 and 2010, respectively, and a second M.S. in Biological Engineering from the College of Engineering at The University of Georgia in 2012. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology, working under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Lin Wang. His research focuses primarily on nanomaterial-based energy harvesting, energy storage, active sensing and self-powered micro-/nano-systems. He has already published 58 papers in total and 30 of them as first-author in prestigious scientific journals, such asNature Communications, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano et al. And still, he filed 8 US patents and 15 Chinese patents. His research on triboelectric nanogenerators has been reported by worldwide mainstream media over 400 times in total, includingNature, PBS, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Scientific American, NewScientist, Phys.org, ScienceDaily, Newsweek, and so on. Jun also received the 2015 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, and the 2016 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. His current H-index is 25.