Group Members

 • Group Leader

 • PostDocs & Staff

    – Yolande Berta
    – Yong Ding
    – Xudong Wang
    – Liqiang Mai
    – Yong Qin
    – Chengyan Xu

 • Graduate Students

    – Brent Buchine
    – Rusen Yang
    – Jenny Morber
    – Changshi Lao
    – Jin Liu
    – Jinhui Song
    – Wenjie Mai
    – Ben Weintraub
    – Melanie Kirkham
    – Yifan Gao
    – Sheng Xu
    – Qin Kuang

 • Memories

 • Prior Members

Biosketch

• Master of Science in Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2004.
• Bachelor of Science in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2002

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Research Area

• Fabrication of Nano-devices.

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Publications

1. "Carrier Density and Schottky Barrier on the Performance of DC Nanogenerator", J. Liu, P. Fei, J.H. Song, X.D. Wang, C.S. Lao, R. Tummala and Z.L. Wang Nano Lett., 8(2008) 328-332.
2. "Morphological tuning and conductivity of organic conductor nanowires", H.B. Liu, J.B. Li, C.S. Lao, C.S. Huang, Y.L. Li, Z.L. Wang and D.B. ZhuNanotechnology, 18 (2007) 495704.
3. "Lithiated MoO3 Nanobelts with Greatly Improved Performance for Lithium Batteries", L.Q. Mai, B. Hu, W. Chen, Y.Y. Qi, C.S. Lao, R.S. Yang and Z.L. Wang Adv. Mater., 19(2007) 3712–3716.
4. "Giant Enhancement in UV Response of ZnO Nanobelts by Polymer Surface-Functionalization", C.S. Lao, M.C. Park, Q. Kuang, Y.L. Deng, A.K. Sood, D.L. Polla and Z. L. Wang, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129 (2007) 12096-12097.
5. "Polymer functionalized piezoelectric-FET as humidity/chemical nanosensors", C.S. Lao, Q. Kuang, Z.L. Wang, M.C. Park and Y. Deng Appl. Phys. Lett., 90 (2007) 262107.
6. "In Situ Field Emission of Density-Controlled ZnO Nanowire Arrays", X.D. Wang, J. Zhou, C.S. Lao, J.H. Song, N.S. Xu, and Z.L. Wang, Adv. Mater., 19 (2007) 1627–1631.
7. "High-Sensitivity Humidity Sensor Based on a Single SnO2 Nanowire", Q. Kuang, C.S. Lao, Z.L. Wang, Z.X. Xie and L.S. Zheng, J. Am. Chem.Soc., 129 (2007) 6070-6071.
8. "La(OH)3 and La2O3 Nanobelts-Synthesis and Physical Properties", C.G. Hu, H. Liu, W.T. Dong, Y.Y. Zhang, G. Bao, C.S. Lao and Z.L. Wang Adv. Mater., 19 (2007) 470-474.
9. "Enhancing the Electrical and Optoelectronic Performance of Nanobelt Devices by Molecular Surface Functionalization", C.S. Lao, Y. Li, C.P. Wong and Z.L. Wang, Nano Lett., 7 (2007) 1323-1328.
10. "RuO2 nanowires and RuO2-TiO2 core-shelled nanowires: from synthesis to mechanical, optical, electrical and photoconductive properties", Y.L. Chueh, C.H. Hsieh, M.T. Chang, L.J. Chou, C.S. Lao, J.H. Song, J.Y. Gan and Z.L. Wang Adv. Mater., 19 (2007) 143-149.
11. "Synthesis and Electrical Transport of Single-Crystal NH4V3O8 Nanobelts", L.Q. Mai, C.S. Lao, B. Hu, J. Zhou, Y.Y. Qi, W. Chen, Y.D. Gu and Z.L. Wang J.Phys. Chem. B, 110 (2006) 18138.
12. "Quantifying oxygen diffusion in ZnO nanobelt", J. Liu, P.X. Gao, W.J. Mai, C.S. Lao, Z.L. Wang and R. Tummala Appl. Phys. Lett., 89 (2006) 063125.
13. "SiC-Shell Nanostructures Fabricated by Replicating ZnO Nano-objects: A Technique for Producing Hollow Nanostructures of Desired Shape", J. Zhou, J. Liu, R.S. Yang, C.S. Lao, P.X. Gao, R. Tummala, N.S. Xu, and Z.L. Wang Small, 2 (2006) 1344-1347.
14. "Size-Manipulable Synthesis of Single-Crystalline BaMnO3 and BaTi1/2Mn1/2O3 Nanorods/Nanowires", C.G. Hu, H. Liu, C.S. Lao, L.Y. Zhang, D. Davidovic and Z.L. WangJ. Phys. Chem. B, 110 (2006) 14050-14054.
15. "Nanowire as pico-gram balance at workplace atmosphere", J. Zhou, C.S. Lao, P.G. Gao, W.J. Mai, W.L. Hughes, S.Z. Deng, N.S. Xu and Z.L. WangSolid State Commun., 139 (2006) 222-226.
16. "ZnO Nanobelt/Nanowire Schottky Diodes Formed by Dielectrophoresis Alignment across Au Electrodes", C.S. Lao, J. Liu, P.X. Gao, L. Zhang, D. Davidovic, R. Tummala and Z.L. Wang Nano Lett., 6 (2006) 263-266.
17. "Metal/semiconductor core/shell nanodisks and nanotubes", P.X. Gao, C.S. Lao, Y. Ding and Z.L. Wang Adv. Funct. Mater., 16 (2006) 53-62.
18. "Formation of double-side teethed nanocombs of ZnO and self-catalysis of Zn-terminated polar surface", C.S. Lao, P.X. Gao, R.S. Yang, Y. Zhang, Y. Dai, Z.L. Wang Chem. Phys. Lett., 417 (2005) 359–363.
19. "Large-Scale Ni-Doped ZnO Nanowire Arrays and Electrical and Optical Properties", J.H. He, C.S. Lao, L.J. Chen, D. Davidovic and Z.L. Wang J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127 (2005) 16376-16377.
20. "Large-Size Liftable Inverted-Nanobowl Sheets as Reusable Masks for Nanolithiography", X.D. Wang, C.S. Lao, E. Graugnard, C.J. Summers and Z.L. Wang Nano Lett., 5 (2005) 1784-1788.
21. "Conversion of Zinc Oxide Nanobelts into Superlattice-Structured Nanohelices", P.X. Gao, Y. Ding, W. Mai, W.L. Hughes, C.S. Lao, Z.L. Wang Science, 309 (2005) 1700-1704.
22. "Three-dimensional interconnected nanowire networks of ZnO", P. X. Gao, C.S. Lao, W. L. Hughes and Z. L.Wang Chem. Phys. Lett., 408 (2005) 174-178.

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Research Highlights

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Honors & Awards

• Awarded Georgia Tech Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NaST) Fellowship, 2004.

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