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Chao Wang (Asst. Prof.)

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School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Assistant Professor
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 5706
Biodesign Center for Molecular Design & Biomimetics
Associate Faculty
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 5706
Biography: 

In 2016, Chao. Chao Wang was appointed as an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also affiliated with the Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics at ASU. Previously, Wang was a research assistant professor at ASU starting from 2015. Prior to joining ASU, he was a research scientist at IBM T.J. Watson research center working on translational systems biology and nanobiotechnology. He studied nanotechnology at Princeton University, obtaining his doctorate in Jan. 2012.

Wang aims to bridge the nanoscience and biotechnology in research. His primary research interests have been in nanofabrication, nanoelectronics, nanofluidics, plasmonics and biosensing. The research goal is to develop a multidisciplinary research program that focuses on advancing nanomanufacturing technologies to address the grand challenges in biomedical, communication and energy applications. The three main research areas are scalable nanomanufacturing, quantum optics, and liquid biopsy. The teaching goal is to educate the students at ASU with fundamental engineering and physical concepts and introduce them the state-of-art technological in biomedicine, quantum physics, and energy applications.

Wang has 16 granted and two pending U.S. patents, and has published his research in prestigious journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Materials Today, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, etc.

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Education: 
  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Princeton University 2011
  • M.S. Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2006
  • B.E. Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2003
Research Website URL: 
https://nanobio.engineering.asu.edu/
Google Scholar URL: 
Google Scholar Profile
Research Interests: 

My research goal is to develop a multidisciplinary program that advances nanobiotechnologies through three main research themes in advanced manufacturing, nanophotonics, and biomolecular sensing. My educational goal is to train students at different levels with fundamental engineering and physical concepts, provide them with opportunities to tackle complex real-world problems, and prepare them with the skills and mindset that allow them to strive in the ever-changing technology landscape. We explore science at nanometer scale and develop impactful biomedical technologies. I view multidisciplinary and integrative strategies an effective and necessary tool to build collaboration and solve problems at the interface of different disciplines and across dimensional scales. Working on technologies interfacing nanofabrication, photonics, electronics, chemistry, and molecular biology, my lab has prototyped 3D metal printing, on-chip integrated polarimetric imager, sapphire-supported nanopore sensor, and a portable, rapid, and accessible virus antigen test at ASU. 

Research Group: 

https://nanobio.engineering.asu.edu/members/

Publications: 

 Selected Journal Publications (‘_’, Wang lab members at ASU; ‘*’, corresponding author; ‘†’ first authors)

 

  1. Zhi Zhao †*, Jing Bai, Yu Yao, and Chao Wang*, "Polymer Assisted Photoreduction towards Printing Continuous Metal Microstructures," Under review.
  2. Zhi Zhao †, Chao Wang, Hao Yan *, and Yan Liu *, "Soft Robotics Programmed with Double Crosslinking DNA Hydrogels," Advanced Functional Materials, pp. 1905911, 2019.
  3. Jing Bai †, Chu Wang, Xiahui Chen, Ali Basiri, Chao Wang, and Yu Yao *, "On Chip-Integrated Plasmonic Flat Optics for Mid-Infrared Full-Stokes Polarization Detection," Photonics Research, vol. 7, pp. 1051-1060, 2019.
  4. Ali Basiri †, Xiahui Chen, Pouya Amrollahi, Jing Bai, Joe Carpenter, Zachary Holman, Chao Wang *, and Yu Yao *, "Nature-Inspired Chiral Metasurfaces for On-Chip Circularly Polarized Light Detection," Light: Science & Applications, vol. 8, pp. 78, 2019.
  5. Zhi Zhao †, Ninad Chamele, Michael Kozicki, Yu Yao, and Chao Wang *, "Photochemical Synthesis of Dendritic Silver Nano-particles for Anti-counterfeiting," J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, vol. 7, pp. 6099-6104, 2019.
  6. Benjamin H. Wunsch, Sung-Cheol Kim, Stacey M. Gifford, Yann Astier, Chao Wang, Robert L. Bruce, Jyotica V. Patel, Elizabeth A. Duch, Simon Dawes, Gustavo Stolovitzky, and Joshua T. Smith, "Gel-on-a-chip: continuous, velocity-dependent DNA separation using nanoscale lateral displacement", Lab on a Chip, vol. 19, pp. 1567-1578, 2019.
  7. Xiahui Chen †, Chu Wang, Yu Yao *, and Chao Wang *, "Plasmonic Vertically Coupled Complementary Antennas for Dual-Mode Infrared Molecule Sensing," ACS Nano, vol. 11, pp. 8034-8046, 2017.
  8. Chao Wang †*, Sung-Wook Nam †, John. M. Cotte, Christopher. V. Jahnes, Evan G. Colgan, et al., "Wafer-Scale Integration of Sacrificial Nanofluidic Chips for Single DNA Molecule Detection and Manipulation," Nature Communications, vol. 8, pp. 14243, 2017.
  9. Benjamin H. Wunsch †, Joshua T. Smith, Stacey M. Gifford, Chao Wang, Markus Brink, Robert Bruce, Robert H. Austin, Gustavo Stolovitzky, and Yann Astier, "Nanoscale Lateral Displacement Arrays for Separation of Exosomes and Colloids Down to 20nm," Nat. Nanotechnol., vol. 11, pp. 936–940, 2016.
  10. Chao Wang †*, Robert L. Bruce, Elizabeth A. Duch, Jyotica V. Patel, Joshua T. Smith, et al., "Hydrodynamics of Diamond-Shaped Gradient Nanopillar Arrays for Effective DNA Translocation into Nanochannels," ACS Nano, vol 9, pp. 1206-1218, 2015.
  11. Jingwei Bai, Deqiang Wang, Sung-wook Nam, Hongbo Peng, Robert Bruce, Lynne Gignac, Markus Brink, Ernst Kratschmer, Stephen Rossnagel, Philip Waggoner, Kathleen Reuter, Chao Wang, Yann Astier, Venkat Balagurusamy, Binquan Luan, Young Kwark, Eric A. Joseph, Michael A. Guillorn, stas Polonsky, Ajay Royyuru, Satyavolu Papa Rao, and Gustavo Stolovitzky, "Fabrication of sub-20 nm Nanopore Arrays in Membranes with Embedded Metal Electrodes at Wafer Scales," Nanoscale, vol 6, pp. 8900–8906, 2014.
  12. Binquan Luan, Chao Wang, Ajay Royyuru, and Gustavo Stolovitzky, "Controlling the motion of DNA in a nanochannel with transversal alternating electric voltages," Nanotechnology, vol 25, pp. 265101, 2014.
  13. Chao Wang, Qi Zhang, Yu Song, and Stephen Y. Chou, "Plasmonic Bar-Coupled Dots-on-Pillar Cavity Antenna with Dual Resonances for Infrared Absorption and Sensing: Performance and Nanoimprint Fabrication," ACS Nano, vol. 8, pp. 2618-2624, 2014.
  14. Chao Wang, Sung-wook Nam, John M. Cotte, et al., "200 mm Wafer-Scale Integration of Sub-20 nm Sacrificial Nanofluidic Channels for Manipulating and Imaging Single DNA Molecules," In proceeding of IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2013.
  15. Chao Wang and Stephen Y. Chou, "Integration of metallic nanostructures in fluidic channels for fluorescence and Raman enhancement by nanoimprint lithography and lift-off on compositional resist stack," Microelec. Eng., Vol. 98, pp. 693-697, 2012.
  16. Chao Wang, Patrick F. Murphy, Nan Yao, Kevin McIlwrath, and Stephen Y. Chou, "Growth of Straight Silicon Nanowires on Amorphous Substrates with Uniform Diameter, Length, Orientation, and Location Using Nanopatterned Host-Mediated Catalyst," Nano Letters, vol. 11, pp. 5247-5251, 2011.
  17. Chao Wang, Zengli Fu, Keith J. Morton, Wen-Di Li, and Stephen Y. Chou, "Printing of Sub-20 nm Wide Graphene Ribbon Arrays by Nanoimprinting Graphite Stamp and Electrostatic Force Assisted Bonding," Nanotechnology, vol. 22, pp. 445301, 2011.
  18. Chao Wang, Qiangfei Xia, Wen-Di Li, Zengli Fu, Keith J. Morton, and Stephen Y. Chou, "Fabrication of a 60-nm-Diameter Perfectly Round Metal-Dot Array over a Large Area on a Plastic Substrate Using Nanoimprint Lithography and Self-Perfection by Liquefaction," Small, vol. 6, pp. 1242-1247, 2010.
  19. Chao Wang and Stephen Y. Chou, "Self-aligned fabrication of 10 nm wide asymmetric trenches for Si/SiGe heterojunction tunneling field effect transistors using nanoimprint lithography, shadow evaporation, and etching," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, vol. 27, pp. 2790-2794, 2009.
  20. Chao Wang, Zheyao Wang, Tian-Ling Ren, Yiping Zhu, Yi Yang, Xiaoming Wu, Haining Wang, Huajun Fang, and Litian Liu, "A micromachined piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer operating in d 33 mode using square interdigital electrodes," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, pp. 967-976, 2007.
  21. Chao Wang, Tianling Ren, Zheyao Wang, Yiping Zhu, Ningxin Zhang, and Litian Liu, "Fabrication and characterization of in-plane polarized PZT films with interdigital electrodes," Integrated Ferroelectrics, vol. 88, pp. 3-11, 2007.
  22. Chao Wang, Zheyao Wang, Tianling Ren, and Litian Liu, "Design and simulation of a novel operation mode of integrated ferroelectric micro-sensors," Integrated Ferroelectrics, vol. 78, pp. 59-67, 2006.
  23. Zheyao Wang, Chao Wang, and Litian Liu, "Design and analysis of a PZT-based micromachined acoustic sensor with increased sensitivity," IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, vol. 52, pp. 1840-1850, 2005.
Research Activity: 

 

(1)  Title: Integrated Nanopillar-Nanochannel Fluidic Systems for Optimal Linearization and Controlled Manipulation of Long DNA Molecules
Source of Support: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.     Role: PI.
Award Amount: $ 480,000. Award Allocation: $ 480,000.   Total Award Period Covered: 2/1/2016 - 7/31/2017.

(2)  Title: Collaborative Research: Silicon Nano-Opto-Fluidics Enabled Multi-Dimensional, High-Throughput Molecular and Size Profiling of Exosomes
Source of Support: NSF.                               Role: PI.
Award Amount: $ 169,349. Award Allocation: $ 169,349.   Total Award Period Covered: 7/1/2017-6/30/2020.

(3)  Title: EAGER: Enabling Quantum Leap: Room temperature Quantum Logic operations Enabled by Quantum Emitter Arrays in 2D artificial Superlattices
Source of Support: NSF.                               Role: co-PI.
Award Amount: $ 295,046. Award Allocation: $ 88,514.    Total Award Period Covered: 7/15/2018-6/30/2020.

(4)  Title: On-chip Metasurface Polarimeter Array for full Stokes Polarization Imaging
Source of Support: NSF.                               Role: co-PI.
Award Amount: $ 329,978. Award Allocation: $ 112,193.   Total Award Period Covered: 8/1/2018-7/31/2021.

(5)  Title: CAREER: Integrated Optofluidic Chips towards Label-Free Detection of Exosomal MicroRNA Biomarkers
Source of Support: NSF.                               Role: PI.
Award Amount: $ 500,000. Award Allocation: $ 500,000.    Total Award Period Covered: 7/1/2019-6/30/2024.

(6)  Title: Photochemically Induced, Polymer-Assisted Deposition for 3D Printing of Micrometer-Wide and Nanometer-Thin Silver Structures
Source of Support: NSF.                               Role: PI.
Award Amount: $ 485,487. Award Allocation: $ 364,115.    Total Award Period Covered: 1/1/2020-12/31/2022.

(7)  Title: Polarimetry-Enhanced Imaging towards Autonomous Solar Field and Receiver Inspections
Source of Support: DOE: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).                               Role: co-PI.
Award Amount: $1,534,730 from DOE (additional ASU cost share $609,813). Award Allocation from DOE: $ 496,187.    Total Award Period Covered: 3/1/2020-2/28/2023.

(8)  Title: NSF-BSF: Synchronous electro-optical DNA detection using low-noise dielectric nanopores on sapphire
Source of Support: NSF                               Role: PI.
Award Amount: $ 360,000. Award Allocation: $ 360,000.    Total Award Period Covered: 7/1/2020-6/30/2023.

(9)  Title: SemiSynBio-II: DNA-based Memory for High-Density Information Storage and Molecular Cryptography with Fast Readout Methods
Source of Support: NSF                               Role: Co-PI.
Award Amount: $ 1,500,000. Award Allocation: $ 500,000.    Total Award Period Covered: 10/01/2020-09/30/2023.

Spring 2022
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 202Circuits I
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2021
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 436Fund of Solid-State Devices
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 591Seminar
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2021
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2021
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 598Special Topics
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 436Fund of Solid-State Devices
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 591Seminar
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2020
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 120Digital Design Fundamentals
CSE 120Digital Design Fundamentals
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 202Circuits I
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2019
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 598Special Topics
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 202Circuits I
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Spring 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 536Semiconductor Characterization
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Fall 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 436Fund of Solid-State Devices
EEE 492Honors Directed Study
EEE 493Honors Thesis
EEE 499Individualized Instruction
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 591Seminar
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Summer 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
EEE 590Reading and Conference
EEE 592Research
EEE 595Continuing Registration
EEE 599Thesis
EEE 690Reading and Conference
EEE 790Reading and Conference
EEE 792Research
EEE 795Continuing Registration
EEE 799Dissertation
Expertise Areas: 
3D Printing
Additive Manufacturing
Biosensors and Bioinstrumentation
Biosensors, Point-of-care Technologies and Sensing Systems
Nanoscience and Material Physics
Nanotechnology
Optical Devices
Physical Electronics and Photonics