{"83651":{"#nid":"83651","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Materials Science Professor Among World\u0027s Most Cited Nanotech Authors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMaterials Science Professor Z.L. Wang has been named one of the world\u0027s most cited authors in nanotechnology research, according to \u003Cem\u003EScience Watch\u003C\/em\u003E, a bulletin that reports on trends in basic research. In the July\/August Vol. 14 edition, \u003Cem\u003EScience Watch \u003C\/em\u003Etracked the major players in nanoscale research based on the number of citations to papers published on \u0022nano\u0022 topics between 1992-2002. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWang is ranked number 20 with nearly 2,350 citations to 121 nanotechnology papers published during the last decade. Wang also was a principal author of one of the most cited nano papers last year in the area of chemistry. The paper, \u0022Nanobelts of semiconducting oxides,\u0022 reports a remarkable way of making ribbon-like, metal oxide fibers, which the authors refer to as \u0022nanobelts\u0022 because they have a rectangular cross-section.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScience Watch\u003C\/em\u003E, which is published by Philadelphia-based Institute of Scientific Information, also ranks the top 25 institutions worldwide according to the number of citations received to papers published on nano topics in the last decade. Georgia Tech ranks number 12 with a total of 6,150 citations. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn an interview with Wang that appears in the bulletin, \u003Cem\u003EScience Watch \u003C\/em\u003Ewrites that Wang\u0027s research \u0022is clearly going places as his output of research papers shows.\u0022 Some of his papers have been singled out for special mention, including his paper in Microscopy and Microanalysis on the structures of oxide nanobelts and nanowires, which the journal selected as the best paper it had published in 2002.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWang\u0027s nanobelts have widths of 30 to 300 nanometers, can grown up to a millimeter or more in length, and can be synthesized with a large degree of control over their structure. According to Wang, their belt-like morphology appears to be a common structural characteristic for this family of semiconducting oxides.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeaking to \u003Cem\u003EScience Watch\u003C\/em\u003E, Wang outlined his plans for the future: \u0022My research will focus on two aspects: the application and integration of nanobelt materials with other microsystems; and applications of nanobelts in biomedical science.\u0022 Ultimately he predicts that his nanobelts will play a part in cancer treatment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022One day, we may use these materials for in-situ, real-time, non-destructive and remote monitoring within the human body, using them to detect cancer cells-and this might even be possible by sending a single such cell,\u0022 he said. \u0022Meanwhile we are concerning on developing nanobelt structures from improving the performance of mico- and nan-electromechanical systems.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Materials Science Professor Z.L. Wang has been named one of the world\u0027s most cited authors in nanotechnology research, according to \u003Cem\u003EScience Watch\u003C\/em\u003E, a bulletin that reports on trends in basic research. \u003Cem\u003EScience Watch\u003C\/em\u003E tracked the major players in nanoscale research based on the number of citations to papers published on \u0022nano\u0022 topics between 1992-2002.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2003-08-21 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"83661":{"id":"83661","type":"image","title":"Z.L. 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