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 |
