Study Ranks Georgia Tech at Top for Nano Research
Professor Gang Bao, BME
Professor Shuming Nie, BME
Professor Zhong Lin Wang, MSE
Georgia Tech ranks third in the nation for the number of nanotechnology researchers that are “highly cited’ in peer-reviewed publications, and in the top 10 for the number of first authors publishing in such journals. Tech is also among the nation’s top 25 institutions for National Science Foundation nanotechnology support.
Leading the way at Tech are COE researchers Gang Bao and Shuming Nie, Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Zhong Lin Wang, Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). Bao’s research is centered on developing bionanotechnologies and biomolecular engineering approaches for basic biological studies and medicine. Areas of interest include biomolecular engineering, molecular imaging, molecular biomechanics and bio-nanotechnology, and cancer and viral infection detection. He is the principal investigator on the project Nanotechnology: Detection & Analysis of Plaque Formation which is funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Programs of Excellence in Nanotechnology.
Nie’s research is focused on the development of BioMEM devices and smart nanostructures for genomics and cancer detection, biospectroscopy and bioimaging for tissue diagnosis, the synthesis and characterization of advanced biomaterials for tissue engineering, bioMEMS and bionanotechnology, and genomics and proteomics. Nie is testing the use of nanoparticles called quantum dots as a method to improve clinical diagnostic tests for the early detection of cancer.
Nie along with Bao are the principal investigators for a Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology and a project on “Nanotechnology: Linking Biomarkers with Cancer Behavior”, both funded through the NIH and National Cancer Institutes.
Wang is Director of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Director of the Center for Nanostructure Characterization. His research is focused on the discovery, fundamental understanding, controlled synthesis, property characterization, device fabrication, and applications of one-dimensional and zero-dimensional nanomaterials in chemical and bio-sensing and nanoelectronics. The July/August issue of the Science Watch published by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) lists the world's top 25 researchers and institutions in nanotechnology from 1992-2002. Wang ranks number 5 internationally with 121 papers on the subject. Wang discovered the world’s first piezoelectric nanospring and discovered the nanobelt in 2001.
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