AsianScientist (Dec. 26, 2013) – Professor Wang Zhonglin, a scientist and a foreign academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems in Beijing, has been awarded the 2014 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society.
Prof. Wang, who also holds a professorship at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, won the prize for his work on zinc oxide nanostructures in sensing, energy harvesting and piezotronics. He invented the nanogenerator and showed how such generators could harvest mechanical energy using nano-enabled technology. He also launched the field of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics.
In the last decade, Prof. Wang has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, among which are the 1999 Burton Medal, 2001 S.T. Li prize for Outstanding Contribution in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the 2009 Purdy Award from American Ceramic Society.
The James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials was established in 1997 and endowed by IBM. Its aim is to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in the science and application of new materials. Past recipients of the prize include Prof. Dan Schechtman, who discovered quasicrystals and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011.
Prof. Wang will receive the award and give a talk at the APS annual meeting in Denver, US in March 2014.
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Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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