Hongjie Dai

Hongjie Dai ( born 2 May 1966 in Shaoyang, China ) is a Chinese-American physical chemist and nano scientists at Stanford University. Dai is considered a pioneer of nanoscience, certain applications of nanotechnology are based on his works.

Dai acquired in 1989 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a bachelor's degree in physics in 1991 at Columbia University in New York City and a master's degree in applied science in 1994 at Charles M. Lieber at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at Harvard University and Rice University in Houston, Texas.

1997 Dai received a first professorship ( Assistant Professor ) of Chemistry at Stanford University in Stanford, California, he became associate professor in 2002, In 2006 he received a full professorship. Dai since 2007 J.G.Jackson - C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.

Dais Working Group deals with chemical, physical, material science and medical issues in the field of basic research on carbon nanotubes and graphene and their applications in nanoelectronics, nanobiotechnology, nanomedicine, energy storage and catalysis. The focus of the work leigt on science and technology of new materials. Recent work dealing with hybrid materials of nanocrystals or nanoparticles with nano- structures made of carbon.

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Publications (selection)

  • N. Wong Shi Kam, M. O'Connell, JA Wisdom and H. Dai: Carbon nanotubes as multifunctional biological transporters and near-infrared agents for selective cancer cell destruction. PNAS, 102, 11600-11605, ( 2005).
  • H. Dai: Chemical Synthesis Routes to Nanotube Molecular Electronics. Accounts of Chemical Research, 35, 1035-1044 (2002).
  • A. Javey, J. Guo, Q. Wang, M. Lundstrom and H. Dai: Ballistic Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors. Nature, 424, 6949 ( 2003).
  • N.W.S. Kam, T.C. Jessop, P. Wender and H. Dai: Nanotube molecular transporter: Internalization of Carbon Nanotube - Protein Conjugates into Mammalian Cells. J. Am. Chem Soc., 126, 6850-6851 ( 2004).
  • R. Chen, Y. Zhang, D. Wang and H. Dai: Non- covalent Sidewall Functionalization of Single -walled Carbon Nanotubes for Protein Immobilization. J. Am. Chem Soc., 123 (16), 3838-3839 (2001).
  • J. Kong, E. Yenilmez, T. Tombler, W. Kim, L. Liu, SY Wu, C. S. Jayanthi, R. Laughlin and H. Dai: Quantum Interference and Ballistic Transmission in Nanotube Electron Wave Guides. Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 106801 ( 2001).
  • J. Kong, N. Franklin, C. Zhou, S. Peng, J. J. Cho and H. Dai: Nanotube Molecular Wires as Chemical Sensors. Science, 287, 622 ( 2000).
  • T. Tombler, C. Zhou, L. Alexeyev, J. Kong, H. Dai, W. Liu, C. Jayanthi, M. Tang, and SY Wu: Reversible Nanotube Electro -mechanical Characteristics Under Local sample manipulation. Nature, 405, 769 ( 2000).
  • S. Fan, M. Chapline, N. Franklin, T. Tombler, A. Cassell, and H. Dai: Self- Oriented Regular Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes and their Field Emission Devices. Science, 283, 512 ( 1999).
  • J. Kong, H.T. Soh, A. Cassell, C. F. Quate and H. Dai: Synthesis of Single Single - Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Patterned Silicon wafer. Nature, 395, 878 (1998).
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