As the Chairman Professor of the Board of Directors of Georgia Institute of Technology and the Distinguished Chairman Professor of the Institute of Technology, Wang Zhonglin is also the head of the Department of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology of Peking University Institute of Technology and the overseas director of China National Nanoscience Center. This work was completed by him and doctoral student Song Jinhui.
Wang Zhonglin realized that zinc oxide has unique semiconductor, optical and biological characteristics and irreplaceable functions of other nano-materials. Therefore, his research group has been committed to the synthesis and application of nano-materials based on zinc oxide. In 200 1 year, they reported the synthesis of zinc oxide semiconductor material tape for the first time in Science magazine, and this paper has been cited 1 100 times. Later, they developed devices such as nanorings and nanospirals.
Wang Zhonglin believes that nano-generators will be widely used in biomedicine, military affairs, wireless communication and wireless sensing. He said: "This invention can integrate nano-devices, realize a real nano-system, and collect mechanical energy, such as energy generated by human movement and muscle contraction; Vibration energy, such as energy generated by sound waves and ultrasonic waves; Fluid energy, such as body fluid flow, blood flow and arterial contraction, is converted into electrical energy and provided to nano devices. The electric energy generated by this nano-generator is enough to supply nano-devices or systems, so that no nano-device or nano-robot can achieve energy self-sufficiency. "
The shoes are equipped with nano-generators, so people can charge their mobile phones or MP3 players while walking. In the near future, this is expected to become a reality.
Wang Zhonglin also said that although a single nano generator has been developed, its power is limited after all. If it is really put into use in the future, there will be a large number of nano-generators working together to form a generator set. Therefore, the next step of the research team is to find a way to develop a device for joint power generation of multiple nano-generators.
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Professor Wang Zhonglin 1982 graduated from xidian university and was admitted to China Academy of Engineering in the same year. 1987 received a doctorate in physics from Arizona State University. He is currently the director of the Center for Nanoscience and Technology of Georgia Institute of Technology, and is a famous nanotechnology expert at home and abroad. Professor Wang Zhonglin has published more than 400 periodical papers, 40 conference papers 140, 8 patents, 4 monographs and 5 books 15. Professor Wang Zhonglin was elected as an academician of the European Academy of Sciences in 2002, the World Innovation Foundation in 2004 and american physical society in 2005, because he has made outstanding and sustained contributions to the basic development of materials science and nanotechnology. From 1992 to 2002, Professor Wang Zhonglin was one of the top 25 authors in the world in the number of citations of nanoscience papers.