Awards & Honors

• Young Investigator Award in Northern California Chapter American Association of Physicists Symposium​ (2019)
• Invited Talk at Brain and Electrochemistry Symposium in Atlanta, GA (2019)
• Invited Talk at Northern California Chapter of the AAPM-Young Investigator Symposium, University of California, Berkeley (2019)
• A “galaxy” of single atoms was featured and chosen as a Happy Holidays highlight on the Molecular Foundry website at Berkeley Lab (2019)
• Winner of the 2018 NanoArt Image Contest, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2018)
• Outstanding Poster Award of Vision Forum, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017)
• Exceptional Shanghai Graduate Students on Graduation, Shanghai, China (2016)
• Invited Talk at Singapore Challenge, Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) @one-north (Top 5), Singapore (2016)
• Plenary Talk at Baosteel Education Foundation Awarding Ceremony (2015)
• Baosteel’s Principal Scholarship (Rank: 1/479), CHINA BAOWU STEEL GROUP (2015)
• Excellent Award of Nano Art Exhibition, Fudan University (2015)
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant for General Chemistry (Brand Courses Taught in English for Overseas), China (2015)
• Invited Talk at Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Research Conference, Universitas 21 (2015)
• Outstanding Teaching Award for the First National Brand Course, Fudan University (2015)
• Academic Star (Top 10), Fudan University (2014)
• Elite Model Team (Top 10), Fudan University (2014)
• Excellent Collective Model (Top 10), Fudan University (2014)
• First Prize of Unilever-RSC Presentation Competition, Royal Society of Chemistry (2014)
• Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA), Dow Chemical Company (2014)
• Kwang-Hua Scholarship, Kwang-Hua Education Foundation (2014)
• National Scholarship for Graduate Students, Chinese Government (2014)
• Invited Talk at Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Research Conference in New Zealand (Top 4), Universitas 21 (2014)
• Distinguished Award of BASF Scholarship, BASF Corporation (2013)
• Excellent Award of Nano Art Exhibition, Fudan University (2013)
• Luk Chung Lam Scholarship, Luk Chung Lam Education Foundation (2013)
• Extraordinary Student (Top 10), Fudan University (2013)
• The Interdisciplinary Outstanding Doctoral Fellowship for Three Years, Fudan University (2013)
• Outstanding Poster Award of Doctoral Forum, Fudan University (2012)
• Kwang-Hua Scholarship, Kwang-Hua Education Foundation (2011)
• Remarkable Shanghai World Expo Volunteer Team, Shanghai, China (2010)
• Outstanding Shanghai Municipal Government World Expo Command Volunteer Individual, Shanghai, China (2010)
• First-Class Academic Scholarship, Tongji University, China  (2009-2011)

​Research Proposal Experience

• Shell Global, Shell Research and Engineering Grant (Yi Cui, Steven Chu, Jing Tang), Bioinspired Materials and Devices for Sustainability, 1Million, 2019-2021, Pending, Role: Written by me
• R01 GM073626 NIGMS, Prolonged Duration Local Anesthesia (Daniel Kohane) 2015.8.1-2019.4.30 Role: Main Participant
• R01 GM116920 NIGMS, Nanoparticle-driven systems for tunable local pain relief (Daniel Kohane), 2016.4.27-2020.4.26, Role: Main Participant
• Nanjing Leading Technology and Entrepreneurship Program, Photoelectrochemical Biosensor (Gengfeng Zheng), 2015-2019, Role: Written by me
• Fudan, The Interdisciplinary Outstanding Doctoral Fellowship for PhD Thesis (Jing Tang), Carbon Quantum Materials for Drug Delivery and Bioimaging, 2012-2015, Role: PI
• FDUROP Undergraduate Research Grant, Hui-Chun Chin and Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese Undergraduate Research Endowment, Wang-Dao Undergraduate Research Grant, Fudan Undergraduate Academic Research and Innovation Program, and Student's Academic Science and Technology Innovation Action Support Program. Furthermore, they got National Grand Prize winner of “Challenge Cup” national undergraduate academic science and technology event in China, 2012-2015, Role: Mentor
• Dow Chemical Company, Dow chemical Innovation Fellowship for Sustainable Development (Jing Tang et al.), Functional Nanomaterials for Clean Energy, Awarded to 2 teams for scientific innovation in sustainable biology and energy, 2014-2015, Role: MPI
• BASF, BASF Outstanding Doctoral Fellowship (Jing Tang), Awarded to one graduate student in Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Nanowire Nanosensor, 2013, Role: PI
• The National Natural Science Foundation of China, Nanowire Functional Materials (Gengfeng Zheng), 2014.1-2016.12, Role: Main Participant
• Ministry of Science and Technology, 973 Program, Rational Design of Functional Mesoporous Materials for Energy (Gengfeng Zheng, Dongyuan Zhao), 2013.1-2017.8, Role: Main Participant
• Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Nanowire Photoelectric Functional Materials (Gengfeng Zheng), 2012.1-2014.12, Role: Main Participant
• Ministry of Education, Controllable synthesis of core-Shell Mesoporous Materials-Metal Oxide Nanowires and Their Applications in PEC Water Splitting (Gengfeng Zheng), 2013.1-2015.12, Role: Main Participant