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Xiangfeng Duan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Nanoscience and Materials

Howard Reiss Career Development Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Education:

Degrees:

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002
M.A., Harvard University, 1999
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 1997

Contact Information:

Work Email Address:	xduan@chem.ucla.edu

Laboratory Address:	Mol Sci Bldg 2104, 2114, 2221, and 2426
Work Address:	Mol Sci Bldg 2505B

Home Page:	http://faculty.chemistry.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=561327

Work Phone Number:	1 (310) 267-4947

Additional Information:

Dr. Duan is an Assistant Professor at UCLA. He received the B.S degree in chemistry from University of Science and Technology and China, Hefei, China, in 1997; M.A. degree in chemistry and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2008, he was a Founding Scientist, Principal Scientist and Manager of Advanced Technology at Nanosys Inc., a nanotechnology startup founded based partly on his doctoral research. In 2008, he joined Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Duan’s research in inorganic nanostructures (nanowires, nanodots) contributed significantly to recent advancement in Nanoscience and nanotechnology. His doctoral research in semiconductor nanowires pioneered the recent blossom in nanowire based research and technology. While at Nanosys, Dr. Duan was responsible for identifying new technological opportunities based on inorganic nanostructures and advancing the newest ideas into compelling technical demonstrations. He is the leading inventor of a number of the most important nanotechnology inventions. His inventions of nanowire thin-film transistors creates a new generation of high performance flexible electronics, and invention of quantum dot flash memory devices addresses the critical challenges in flash memory technology and promises the continued down scaling. Dr. Duan has published more than 20 technical papers in leading scientific journals, and holds more than 40 patents or patent applications. His publications are highly cited by scientific and technological community across academia and industry with highest citation over 1000 times per paper and average citation over 200 per paper. His current research interests include nanoscale materials, devices and their applications in future electronics, energy science and biomedical science.

Selected Publications:

Bai, J. W. Duan, X. F. Huang, Y. , Rational Fabrication of Graphene Nanoribbons Using a Nanowire Etch Mask, Nano Letters, 2009, 9 (5), 2083-2087.

Duan, X., Chow, C.Y.H., Heald, D.L., Niu, C., Parce; J.W. and Stumbo, D. , Nano-enabled memory devices and anisotropic charge carrying arrays, United States Patent 7,382,017 , 2008.

Pan, Yaoling Duan, Xiangfeng Dubrow, Robert S. Goldman, Jay L. Mostarshed, Shahriar Niu, Chunming Romano, Linda T. Stumbo, Dave , Systems and methods for nanowire growth and harvesting, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 2007.

Duan, X. , Assembled semiconductor nanowire thin films for high performance flexible macroelectronics, MRS Bull, 2007, 32, 134-141.

Duan, X., Niu, C. and Empedocles, S. , Large area nanoenabled macroelectronic substrate and uses therefore, United States Patent 7,262,501 , 2007.

Duan, X., Daniels, R. H., Niu, C., Sahi, V., Hamilton, J.M. and Romano, L.T. , Methods of positioning and/or orienting nanostructures., United States Patent 7,164,209 , 2007.

Huang, Y., Duan X. and Lieber C. M. , Semiconductor nanowire for multi-color photonics, Small, 2005, 1, 142-147.

Duan, X. and Lieber, C. M. , Semiconductor nanowires: rational synthesis, Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscale Science and Technology, 2005.

Duan, X. F. Huang, Y. Agarwal, R. Lieber, C. M. , Single-nanowire electrically driven lasers, Nature, 2003, 421 (6920), 241-245.

Duan, X., Niu, C., Sahi, V., Chen, J., Parce, J. W., Empedocles, S. and Goldman, J., High performance thin film transistors assembled from semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons, Nature, 2003, 425, 274-278.

Duan, X., Huang, Y. and Lieber, C. M. , Nanowire nanocircuits, McGraw-Hill Year Book of Science and Technology, 2003, 272-276 .

Duan, X., Huang, Y., Cui, Y. and Lieber, C. M. , Nanowires nanoelectronics assembled from the bottom-up., Molecular Nanoelectronics, M. A. Reed and T. Lee, eds. , 2003, American Scientific Publishers.

Duan, X. F. Huang, Y. Lieber, C. M. , Nonvolatile memory and programmable logic from molecule-gated nanowires, Nano Letters, 2002, 2 (5), 487-490.

Huang, Y.; Duan, X.; Wei, Q. and Lieber, C.M. , Directed assembly of one dimensional nanostructures into functional networks, Science, 2001, 291, 630-633.

Duan, X., Huang, Y., Cui, Y., Wang, J., and Lieber, C. M. , Indium phosphide nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices, Nature, 2001, 409, 66-69.

Huang, Y., Duan, X., Cui, Y., Lauhon, L., Kim, K. and Lieber, C. M. , Logic gates and computation from assembled nanowire building blocks, Science, 2001, 294, 1313-1317.

Duan, X. F. Lieber, C. M. , General synthesis of compound semiconductor nanowires, Advanced Materials, 2000, 12 (4), 298-302.