Title：Carbon nanotube based technology for biomedical, clinical and microelectronic applications
Time：9:00 am,Friday,April 8,2011
Speaker：Dr.Sigen Wang(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
Place：Room 205, Bldg 14, SCUT North Campus
Sponsor: School of Material Science and Engineering
Abstract:
    Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising to revolutionize several fields in material science, physics and microelectronics and are a major component of nanotechnology. CNT is a relatively new carbon allotrope discovered in 1991 by Iijima et al. and it is comprised of either a single graphene shell, termed single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT), or multiple concentric graphene shells termed a multi-wall carbon nanotube. Since the discovery of CNTs, the perspective to use nanotubes in new device development spurred on efforts worldwide. In this talk, we will briefly introduce our research work on CNT technology development for biomedical, clinical and electronic applications including in cancer radiotherapy of small animal models for preclinical cancer research, single cell irradiation, novel diagnostic medical imaging and biosensors for anticancer drug detection.
 Brief introduction to Dr.Wang：
    Dr. Sigen Wang is currently a Professor line faculty member in Division of Physics and Computing(Medical School) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), where he is also a Scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and a Medical Physicist at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital. His research interfaces with materials science, applied physics, medical physics and microelectronics. His current research focuses on nanomaterials and nanotechnology for biomedical and clinical applications. He received his PhD degree in Materials Science from the University of Science and Technology Beijing and worked as an Associate Professor and the Director of Metallic Materials Laboratory at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey etc. before joining the faculty at UNC-CH. He has published around 90 papers in refereed journals and given over 50 presentations at conferences worldwide, and contributed 3 book chapters. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of Electron Devices Society, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and Materials Research Society. He serves as a reviewer for 15 international journals.