Welcome to Prof.Yiping Zhao's research group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at The University of Georgia. Our research mainly focuses on nanostructure fabrication and characterization, optical property of nanostructured materials, liquid-nanostructure interaction, chemical and biological sensors, hydrogen storage materials, nano-photocatalysts, and nanomotors. We also work on biomaterials and other applications of nanotechnology. For details, please see research page.
Awards Miss Whitney Ingram won First place in the category of Mathematics and Physical Sciences in the Oral presentation, and Second place in the category of Matnematics and Physical Sciences in the poster presenation at the 4th Annual Fall National Symposium and Research Conference of Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (or PSLSAMP) (2009, Fort Valley State University). Mr. Yongjun Liu received the 2009 Graduate Research Award from the American Vacuum Society at the AVS 56th International Symposium& Exhibition in San Jose. Mr. Justin Abell received a 2009 travel scholarship for the NANO-DDS meeting
organized by Department of Defense.Mr. John Gibbs received a 2009 travel assistantship from National Science Foundation to participate the NSF CMMI annual grantee meeting in Hawaii. Dr. Yiping Zhao received the 2009 Creative Research Medal of University of Georgia. Mr. Yongjun Liu received the 2009 Sean M. Kirkpatrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Research, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia. Miss Whitney Ingram won the first place for the poster presentation in the category of Physics in FGLSAMP (Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) National Conference in Miami, Florida (2008). Miss Junxue Fu received the 2008 Departmental Outstanding Research Asistant Award. Mr. Zhongyue Zhang received the 2008 Departmental Outstanding Research Asistant Award. Mr. Wilson Smith was selected to participate the 58th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics from June 29th to July 4th 2008 in Lindau, Germany Dr. Jianguo Fan received the 2008 excellence in research by the Gradutate Student Award, University of Georgia Mr. Jianguo Fan received the 2007 Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship from the American Vacuum Society at the AVS 54th International Symposium& Exhibition in Seattle, one of the five top-level named graduate student awards for the AVS annual meeting. UGA News Dr. Yuping He was selected as a recipient of a 2007 Outstanding Young Researcher Award by the Thin Film Dinision of the American Vacuum Society. UGA News
Mr. Justin Abel's paper, “Fabrication and characterization of a multi-well array SERS chip with biological applications,” has been reported by "Trends in Analytical Chemistry" in 2009 --- Detail...... Nanoblade array confronts hydrogen storage bottleneck --- NanotechNews, Cover Image for Nanotechnology. Miss Junxue Fu's paper, 'An Au/Si hetero-nanorod-based biosensor for Salmonella detection' has been selected to be part of the Most Accessed of 2008 by the journal, Nanotechnology. Hetero-Nanorods for Bacteria Detection--- UGA News, Nanowerk News
NanoArt Movie Catalytic Nanomotors --- NanotechNews,UGA News, Nanomotor Movies The NanoArt Show --- UGA News, UGA Research Magzine SERS Virus detection --- UGA News,National Cancer Institute News, MedGadget, Nature Naotechnology , NanoToday, SPIE NewsRoom, Laser Focus World THz spectroscopy of ZnO nanorods --- Appl. Phys. Lett. cover image Currently we have three graduate student research assistantship positions available.
