Jin,zhong

Biography

"Prof. Zhong Jin was born in Guixi, Jiangxi province, China in 1983. He attended Peking University for his undergraduate and postgraduate education from 1999 to 2008, and earned his B.S.(2003) and Ph.D.(2008) degrees in Chemistry. From 2008 to 2010, he visited US and worked as a postdoctoral associate in Prof. James M. Tour’s Group at The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University. From 2010 to 2014, he moved to Boston and worked as a postdoctoral associate in Prof. Michael S. Strano’s Group in Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now he is working as a Tenure-Track Professor in Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University, Jiangsu province, China. Prof. Zhong Jin’s broad range of experiences ranging from nanoscience and low-dimensional nanostructures makes him successful for the multidisciplinary research of novel materials. His interests cover a wide range of materials science disciplines, especially carbon nanomaterials, such as the controlled synthesis of extremely-long carbon nanotubes, 2D graphene and 3D carbon scaffolds. He also designed new chemical approaches for the functionalization of novel carbon species, such as fluorescent and bio-active graphene with aqueous-dispersibility. He also conducted impressive works on incorporating carbon materials into nanoelectronics and electrochemical clean-energy storage systems. He developed a brand-new metallized DNA nanolithography that allows transfer of spatial information from self-assembled DNA templates to pattern custom-shaped 2D nanostructures for wafer-scale patterning of 2D nanoelectronic devices with diverse circuit elements, i.e., nanorings, nanojunctions and nanoribbons."

Research Interest

Controlled growth and properties of carbon-based nanomaterials and low-dimensional inorganic nanostructures