Ever since the launch of SUN-WIN Joint Research Institute for Nanotechnology, collaborative research projects have been a priority. In May, 2012, the first batch of 12 projects were reviewed and approved, receiving almost $1 million of funding from Suzhou Industrial Park and Soochow University. In June, 2013, the second batch of 7 projects were approved for funding. Below are the detailed lists:
1st Batch of SUN-WIN Collaborative Projects (2012) |
No. | Name of Projects | Principal Investigators |
1 | Development and Study of Organic-Inorganic Nanostructured Hybrid Photovoltaics | WIN: Bo Cui SU: Baoquan Sun |
2 | Nanomaterials for Applications to the Development of Advanced Separation and Purification Technology | WIN: Garry L. Rempel SU: Qinmin Pan |
3 | Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Optoelectronic Devices | WIN: Nasser M Abukhdeir SU: Youyong Li |
4 | High-Efficiency Tandem Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Nanostructures: Device Physics, Device Architectures, and Material Chemistry | WIN: Hany Aziz SU: Liang-Sheng (Larry) Liao |
5 | Graphene based NEMS Ultrasonic Transducers for Monitoring Clusters of Biological Cells | WIN: John T.W. Yeow SU: Xuhui (Jeff) Sun |
6 | Development of a dual-modality nano-carriers for both optical tracking and drug delivery | WIN: Marc Aucoin SU: Rui Peng |
7 | Novel polymeric nanostructured systems for biomedical and chemical applications | WIN: Michael KC Tam SU: Pei-Hong Ni |
8 | One-Dimensional Silicon/Carbon Nanocomposites as Anode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries | WIN: Zhongwei Chen SU:Mingwang Shao |
9 | Synthesis, molecular organization, nanostructural control, and charge transport study of polymer semiconductors for high-mobility organic thin film transistors | WIN: Yuning Li SU: Suidong Wang |
10 | High‐performance flexible image sensors based on printed one‐dimensional semiconductor nanostructures | WIN: William S. Wong SU: Jiansheng Jie |
11 | Mesoporous Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery Applications | WIN: Frank Gu SU: Qingfeng Xu |
12 | Cellular Interactions and Nanotoxicology Studies on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene | WIN: Vivek Maheshwari SU: Zhuang Liu |
2nd Batch of SUN-WIN Collaborative Projects (2013)
No. | Name of Projects | Principal Investigators |
1 | High efficient catalyst design based on silicon nanostructures for hydrocarbon selective oxidation | WIN: Pavle Radovanovic SU: Zhenhui Kang |
2 | Three-Dimensional Self-Assembled Quantum Dot Layers for Next Generation Solar Cells and the Impact on Manufacturing | WIN: Siva Sivoththaman SU: Wanli Ma |
3 | Flexible Polymer Solar Cells Integrated with Transparent Plasmonic Silver Nanostructure Electrodes | WIN: Irene Goldthorpe SU: Jianxin Tang |
4 | High Performance Field-Effect Gas Sensors | WIN: Mikko Karttunen SU: Lifeng Chi |
5 | Graphene-based Mode-locked Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers | WIN: Dayan Ban SU: Qiaoliang Bao |
6 | Carbon quantum dots for biomedical imaging and cancer therapy | WIN: Shirley Tang SU: Yang Liu |
7 | High Drug-Loading Nanomedicines for More Effective Cancer Therapy | WIN: Pu Chen SU: Xiujuan Zhang |