糖心Vlog传媒

Dr. Wei Zhao

Analytical Chemistry/Laser Spectroscopy/Nanochemistry

Contact Information

Office Location: SCLB 481
Office Phone: 501-916-6547
E-mail: [email protected]
Website:

Teaching Interests

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Analytical Chemistry I, Electrochemistry, Materials Science

Research Interests

• Nanostructure-Assisted Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production and Storage
• Optical Nonlinearity and Structure Relationships of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
• Development of Novel Doubly Vibrationally Enhanced (DOVE) Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy
• Applications of 2D IR Correlation Spectroscopy for Molecular Interaction Study
• Synthesis and Study of Novel Nanostructural Lanthanide Ion-Doped Materials for Optical Data Storage, Signal Processing and Optical Sensors

糖心Vlog传媒-Little Rock Appointments

• Professor (2006-present)
• Associate Professor (2003-2006)
• Assistant Professor (1999-2003)

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin鈥擬adison (Madison, WI)
• Ph.D., Peking University (Beijing, China)
• MS, Peking University (Beijing, China)
• BS, Peking University (Beijing, China)

Awards, Honors, and Synergistic Activities

• University Research Excellence Award (2004)
• College Research Excellence First Place Award (2004)
• DOVE Research work highlighted by C&E News (Feb. 7, 2000), Laser Focus World (July 2000), Photonics Technology News (May 2000).
• Graphene research work highlighted in Photonics Spectra (Oct 2010); Research work on Carbon Nanotubes highlighted in John Wiley & Sons Website, SeparationsNow.com: 鈥淧icking armchairs from zigzags.鈥� (Jan. 2008).
• Organizer and Chairperson of Nanoscience Workshop at 糖心Vlog传媒LR, May 1-2, 2006; Lead Organizer for Symposium EE of Applications of Nanotubes and Nanowires in the MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 9-13, 2007; Chair of Carbon Nanotubes Separation Symposium in the 30th-34th Annual Meetings of The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), 2003-2007; Organizer of Nanoscience and Nanomaterials Symposia in 2004-2007, 2011, 2013, 2016-2019, FACSS; Chair of Biotemplate-Based Nanomaterials for Energy Applications at FACSS 2016; Organizer of Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy in Materials Science, ACS San Francisco National Meeting, Aug. 10-14, 2014 and April 2-6, 2017, and Pacifichem, Hawaii, 2015 & 2020; Chair of Nanomaterials for Energy-Related Application Symposium and Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Research Symposium, ACS SWRM 2018, Little Rock, AR.
• Guest Editor for A Special Issue in J. Phys. Chem. A: Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (2013).
• NIH Review Panelists (2009-2011, 2019); NSF Major Research Instrumentation Panelist (2008); NSF Chemical Measurement and Imaging Panelist (2012); NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Panelist (2015-2016).

Recent Publications

• W. Zhao, A. V. Pakoulev, J. C. Wright, J. Phys. Chem. A, 123 (2019) 625-628.
• C. Li, Z. Zheng, W. Zhou, F. Watanabe, W. Zhao, J. Electrochem. Soc., 165 (2018) J3157-J3165.
• D. Y. Wang, F. Watanabe, W. Zhao, ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol., JSS Focus Issue, Nanocarbons 鈥� In Memory of Sir Harry Kroto, 6 (2017) M3049-M3054.
• D. Y. Wang, F. Watanabe, W. Zhao, J. Electrochem. Soc., 163 (2016) F3158-F3163.
• E. H. Zhao, F. Watanabe, W. Zhao, Optical Materials, 46 (2015) 497-503.