Progress in Nanoscale Characterization and Manipulation

Research in the Wang's group focuses on many aspects of surface physical chemistry and nano-bio interface, including the principle of scanning tunneling microscopy and its applications, nanoscale physical and chemical phenomena at interface, and molecular self-assembly, and single molecule physics and chemistry, etc. Wang and his collaborators have engaged in constructing low-dimensional molecular nanostructures on surfaces through multilevel self-assembling processes. Such multilevel process can be categorized depending on symmetry characteristics and nature of intermolecular interactions.

In recent years, his group has engaged in studying molecular mechanisms of peptide assemblies relating to disease diagnosis and treatment techniques. In the recent studies, the fine folding and assembling characteristics of amyloid peptides at the level of single molecules are being pursued. The insight of the assemble peptide and protein structures could provide basis for developing diagnosis and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.

He has published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals including Chem. Soc. Rev., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nano Lett. etc. He published 4 books in Chinese or English.



Hongzhou ZHANG received his Bachelor and Master's degrees in Physics at Peking University (China) and PhD in Applied Physics at Rice University (US) in 1999. He worked as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University for three years before he joined Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 2009. He is now an Associate Professor at the School of Physics, TCD and a Principal Investigator at CRANN/AMBER, the Irish national nanoscience centre. His research is focused on the applications of helium-ion microscopy in nanomaterial imaging and modification and he is recognized internationally as a pioneering researcher in the field (h-index: 30; total citation counts 4405). Since 2009, he has secured 15 research projects from diverse Irish and EU funding agencies and industries.



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