Anyuan Cao

Anyuan Cao, Ph.D., Professor

Department of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

College of Engineering, Peking University
Beijing, 100084, China

Tel: +86-10-62767142

E-mail: anyuan@pku.edu.cn

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

2002 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

1996 B.S. Mechanical Engineering Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Jan. 2009 ~ present	Professor Department of Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, Peking University, China
Aug.2005 ~ Dec.2008	Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dec.2006 ~Feb.2007 & May 2006 ~ June 2006	Visiting scholar Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
2002 ~ July.2005	Post-doctoral researcher Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1996 ~ 2001	Research Assistant Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

RESEARCH AREAS AND INTERESTS

1. Manufacturing and characterization of nanostructures and devices.

2. Carbon nanotube based electronic and optical devices.

3. Energy-related applications such as thin film solar cells.

4. Micro- and Nano-electromechanical systems and flexible devices.

COURSES

“Fracture Mechanics”, “Theory of Elasticity”, “Introduction to Nanotechnology”, “Solid Mechanics”.

AWARDS AND HONORS

1. 2008The USA NSF Career Award.

2. 2006 Guinness World Records “The Smallest Nanotube Brushes”.

3. 2006 China Awards for Science and Technology, Natural Science Z-108-2-04.

4. 2005 China Education Administration Award, Natural Science - 006.

5. 2004 China National One-hundred Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Jia Y, Wei JQ, Wang KL, Cao A*, Shu Q, Gui X, Zhu Y, Zhuang D, Zhang G, Ma B, Wang L, Liu W, Wang Z, Luo J, Wu D. “Nanotube-silicon heterojunction solar cells” Advanced Materials 20, 4594-4598 (2008).

2. Wen Q, Tian T, Qian WZ, Hu L, Yun S, Cao A, Wei F. “Synthesis of vertically aligned CNTs with hollow channel on Al2O3-Al substrate electroplated with Fe nanoparticles” J. of The Electrochemical Society 155, K180-K182 (2008).

3. Liu Y, Qian W, Zhang Q, Cao A, Li Z, Zhou W, Ma Y, Wei F. “Hierarchical agglomerates of carbon nanotubes as high-pressure cushions” Nano Letters 8, 1323-1327 (2008).

4. Yu G, Li X, Lieber CM, Cao A*. “Nanomaterial-incorporated blown bubble films for large area, aligned nanostructures” Journal of Materials Chemistry 18, 728-734 (2008).

5. Zhang Y, Gong T, Jia Y, Liu W, Wei J, Ma M, Wang K, Zhong M, Wu D, Cao A. “Tailoring the intrinsic metallic states of double-walled nanotube films by self-soldered laser welding” Applied Physics Letters 91, 233109 (2007).

6. Lv R, Cao A, Kang F, Wang W, Wei J, Gu J, Wang K, Wu D. “Single-crystalline permalloy nanowires in carbon nanotubes: enhanced encapsulation and magnetization” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111, 11475-11479 (2007).

7. Xiang R, Luo G, Qian W, Zhang Q, Wang Y, Wei F, Li R, Cao A. “Encapsulation, compensation, and substitution of catalyst particles during continuous growth of carbon nanotubes” Advanced Materials 19, 2360-2363 (2007).

8. Wei J, Jia Y, Shu Q, Gu Z, Wang K, Zhuang D, Zhang G, Wang Z, Luo J, Cao A, Wu D. “Double-walled carbon nanotube solar cells” Nano Letters 7, 2317-2321 (2007).

9. Yu G, Cao A*, Lieber CM. “Large area blown bubble films of aligned nanowires and carbon nanotubes” Nature Nanotechnology 2, 372-377 (2007).

10. Wei J, Sun J-L, Zhu J-L, Wang K, Wang Z, Luo J, Wu D, Cao A. “Carbon nanotube macrobundles for light sensing” Small 2, 988-993 (2006).

11.Veedu V, Cao A, Li X, Ma K, Soldano C, Kar S, Ajayan PM, Ghasemi-Nejhad MN. “Multifunctional composites using reinforced laminae with carbon-nanotube forests” Nature Materials 5, 457-462 (2006).

12. Cao A, Dickrell PL, Sawyer WG, Ghasemi-Nejhad MN, Ajayan PM. “Super-compressible foam-like carbon nanotube films” Science 310, 1307-1310 (2005).

13. Cao A, Veedu V, Li X, Yao Z, Nejhad M, Ajayan PM. “Multifunctional brushes made from carbon nanotubes” Nature Materials 4, 540-545 (2005).