Welcome to Prof.Yiping Zhao's research group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy 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
Mr. Yongjun Liu will receive the 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.
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 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

 

Research News

Nanoblade array confronts hydrogen storage bottleneck --- NanotechNews

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 assistanship positions available.