Fan, Donglei - The University of Texas at Austin - Department of Mechanical Engineering

个人简介

Dr. Donglei "Emma" Fan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Graduate Advisor of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds the Robert & Jane Mitchell Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering since 2017. Prof. Fan received her bachelor's degree in chemistry in the Department of Intensive Instruction (DII), an honor program for gifted undergraduate students, from Nanjing University (NJU) in 1999, master's (2003) and doctorate (2007) degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). She also obtained another master's degree in Electrical Engineering from JHU in 2005. Between 2007 and 2009, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at JHU. Her research focuses on exploiting the fundamental magnetic, optical, chemical, and mechanical properties of materials for innovative design, manufacturing, and applications of nanomaterials in nanorobotics, biochemical sensing, single live cell stimulation, MEMS/NEMS, and energy conversion and storage devices. She is an inventor of the patent awarded "Electric Tweezers" technique that can precisely manipulate nanoscale materials in aqueous suspension by combined AC and DC electric fields. Prof. Fan's research has spurred a series of publications including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, five granted patents, and a few pending patents. She is an editorial board member of Nature Scientific Reports. In 2012, Prof. Fan received the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Her work on bottom-up assembling of inorganic nanomotors was selected as the #3 of "10 discoveries that will shape the future in 2014" by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Focus magazine. She was one of 30 US young engineers, invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2013 EU-US Frontier of Engineering Symposium in France. She was an invitee of National (NAS) Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine symposium in 2014. She was featured by "Woman in Nanoscience," an NSF supported scientific blog highlighting achievements of woman scientists in US. She was honored as a Recognized Mentor by the Siemens Foundation in 2012, a finalist of the Beckman Young Investigator Award (24 finalists nationwide), and nominated for the 2010 MIT Technology Review's TR35 award, which recognizes the world's top young innovators, and a finalist of the 2015 SXSW Interactive Innovation Award. Waived of the National College Examination, she received an early admission to NJU and awarded the Freshman Scholarship (1995). She won multiple awards in national/state academic competitions in Physics, Biology and Mathematics in high and middle schools.

研究领域

Innovative Mechanisms and Technologies for Nanomanufacturing, Nanomanipulation, and Assembling Biochemical Sensing, Delivery, and Tunable Release by Designed Hybrid Optoplasmonic and Plasmonic-Mechanical Nanodevices for Health, Environment, Food Safety, and Defense Nanorobotics, Micro/Nano Electromechanical System (MEMS/NEMS) Devices, Nanomotors 3-D Hierarchical Porous Composites for Energy Storage, Conversion, and Self-Powered Devices

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W. Lei, X.Y. Zhu and D. L. Fan*, "Rational Fabrication of Arrays of Plasmonic Metal-Quantum Dot Sandwiched Nanodisks with Enhanced Forster Resonance Energy Transfer", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 16230–16238 (2015)(link). Longjun Li, Chao Liu, Guang He and D. L. Fan, and Arumugam Manthiram, "Design of Hierarchical Pore-in-Pore and Wire-in-Wire Catalysts for Rechargeable Hybrid Li-air Batteries with Ultra-long Cycle Life and High Cell Efficiency", Energy & Environmental Science, 8, 3274- 3282 (2015) doi: 10.1039/C5EE02616D (link). C. Liu, X. B. Xu, and D. L. Fan*, "Rational Synthesis of Three Dimensional Nanosuperstructures for Applications in Energy Storage and Conversion Devices", IEEE-Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, PP, 1 (2016) doi:10.1109/TDMR.2015.2514238 (link).(invited review) Z. Wang, X. C. Xu, D. L. Fan, Y. G. Wang, H. Subbaraman, and R. T. Chen, "Geometrical Tuning Art for Entirely Subwavelength Grating Waveguide based Integrated Photonics Circuits", Scientific Reports, 6, 24106 (2016) (link). Chenxi Zu, Longjun Li, Jianhe Guo, Shaofei Wang and D. L. Fan, and Arumugam Manthiram, "Understanding the Redox Obstacles in High Sulfur-loading Li-S Batteries and Design of an Advanced Gel Cathode", Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7, 1392–1399 (2016) (link). K. Kim, J. H. Guo, Z. X. Liang, F. Q. Zhu and D. L. Fan*, "Rotary Nanomotors: A Review of Recent Development", Nanoscale, 8, 10471- 10490 (2016) (link). (invited review) Z. Wang, X.C. Xu, D. L. Fan, Y. G. Wang and R. T. Chen, "High quality factor subwavelength grating waveguide micro-ring resonator based on trapezoidal silicon pillars" Optical Letters, 41, 3375-3378 (2016) (link). K. Kim, Z. X. Liang, M. L. Liu, and D. L. Fan*, "Biobased High-Performance Rotary Micromotors for Individually Reconfigurable Micromachine Arrays and Microfluidic Applications", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9, 6144-6152 (2017) (link). C. Liu#, Z. Wang#, E. Li, X. Liang, S. Chakravarty, X C. Xu, A. X. Wang*, Ray T. Chen* and D. L. Fan*, "Electrokinetic-Manipulation Integrated Plasmonic-Photonic Hybrid Raman Nanosensors with Dually Enhanced Sensitivity", ACS Sensors, 2, 346–353 (2017) (link) (featured on the front cover). Weigu Li, Jianhe Guo, and D. L. Fan*, "Three-Dimensional Graphite-Polymer Flexible Strain Sensors with Ultrasensitivity and Durability for Real-Time Human Vital Sign Monitoring and Musical Instrument Education", Advanced Materials Technologies, 2, 1700070 (2017) DOI: 10.1002/admt.201700070 (link). (featured on the front cover) Jianhe Guo, Andrew Chan, Weigu Li, and D. L. Fan*, "Kirkendall Effect in Creating Three-Dimensional Metal Catalysts for Hierarchically Porous Ultrathin Graphite with Unique Properties", Chemistry of Materials, 29, 4991–4998 (2017) DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01518 (link). W. G. Li, X. B. Xu, C. Liu, M. Tekell, J. Ning, J. H. Guo, J. C. Zhang, and D. L. Fan*, "Ultralight and Binder-Free All-Solid-State Flexible Supercapacitors for Powering Wearable Strain Sensors", Advanced Functional Materials, 27, 1702738 (2017) DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201702738 (link) (featured on the inside back cover). K. Kim, J. H. Guo, Z. X. Liang, and D. L. Fan*, "Artificial Micro/Nanomachines for Bio-applications: Biochemical Delivery and Diagnostic Sensing", Advanced Functional Materials, 28, 1705867 (2018) DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705867 (Feature Article), mentioned by Advanced Science News and is among the top 10 most accessed articles in February, 2018. Jianhe Guo, Jeremie J. Gallegos, Ashley R. Tom, and D. L. Fan*, "Electric-Field Guided Precision Manipulation of Catalytic Nanomotors for Cargo Delivery and Powering Nanoelectromechanical Devices", ACS Nano, 12, 1179-1187 (2018) doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06824 (link). Weigu Li, Marshall C Tekell, Chang Liu, Jacob A Hethcock, and D. L. Fan*, "Flexible All-Solid-State Supercapacitors of High Areal Capacitance Enabled by Porous Graphite Foams with Diverging Microtubes", Advanced Functional Materials, DOI:10.1002/adfm.201800601 (2018) (link). Jianhe Guo and D. L. Fan*, "Electrically Controlled Biochemical Release from Micro/Nanostructures for In-vitro and In-vivo Applications: A Review", ChemNanoMat, DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201800157 (2018) (invited Focus Review). Jing Liu#, Jianhe Guo#, Guowen Meng and D. L. Fan*, "Superstructural Raman Nanosensors with Integrated Dual Functions for Ultrasensitive Detection and Tunable Release of Molecules", Chemistry of Materials,30, 5256–5263 (2018) DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01979 (featured on the front cover). Zexi Liang and Donglei Fan*, "Visible-Light-Gated Reconfigurable Rotary Actuation of Electric Nanomotors", Science Advances, 4, eaau0981 (2018). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau0981 (link), featured by UT News, Nano Today, Materials Today, IEEE Spectrum, Forbes, ASEE First Bell, Science Daily, Physorg, EurekAlert, and The Daily Texan among numerous news agencies. Weigu Li, Marshall Tekell, Yun Huang, Max Lau, and Donglei Fan*, "Synergistic High-Rate Solar Steaming and Mercury Removal with MoS2/C @ Polyurethane Composite Sponges", Advanced Energy Materials, 8, 1802108 (2018) DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201802108 (link), featured by The Daily Texan. Weigu Li, Zheng Li, Karina Bertelsmann, and Donglei Fan*, "Portable Low-Pressure Solar Steaming-Collection Uni-system with Polypyrrole Origamis", Advanced Materials, doi:10.1002/adma.201900720 (2019) (link), featured by UT News, UT ME News, Phys,org, Science Daily, and ECN among many news agencies.