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USTAR
Professor
Department of Materials Science and
Engineering
Board of Director, Gentex
Corporation
Associate Editor:
Science of
Advanced Materials, American Scientific
Publishers
Editorial Board:
Scientific Reports (a Nature journal)
Chemosensors
USTAR
Office: Rm5543 SMBB
building,
Tel. 801-587-1551
Department Office: Rm209 CME
building,
Tel. 801-585-0966
Fax: 801-581-4816
Email: lzang@eng.utah.edu
Mailing Address:
SMBB Building, Room 5543
36 South Wasatch Dr., Salt
Lake City, UT 84112
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Dr. Ling
Zang is a USTAR professor at University of Utah
affiliated with the Department of Materials
science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the
National Academy of Inventors, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS), and the Royal Society of Chemistry, was
previously an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, NSF
CAREER Award winner, and K. C. Wong Foundation
Research Fellow. Dr. Zang earned his B.S. in
physical chemistry from Tsinghua University and
Ph.D. in chemistry from the Chinese Academy of
Sciences. His current research focuses on
several areas, including nanoscale imaging and
molecular probing, organic semiconductors and
nanostructures, metal organic frameworks, porous
graphitic carbon materials, and the applications
in chemical sensors and nanodevices. These
research endeavors aim to address critical
problems in the fields of health, environment,
and public safety. Dr. Zang has been awarded
various grants from federal funding agencies
(e.g., NSF, DHS, DOE/ARPA-E, NIH, NASA, etc.),
industries (e.g., Gentex), and private
organizations (e.g., Gates Foundation) to
support his broad range of research in
nanoscience and nanotechnology. Beyond the
regular faculty duty on campus, Dr. Zang also
remains active in organizing and chairing the
nanotechnology sessions of various national and
international conferences, and reaching out to
K-12 students and publics for education of
nanotechnology and the impacts to society and
industry. Dr. Zang also strives to foster the
technology transfer and commercialization. His
lab has developed over 40 IPs, and more than
half of these IPs have already been licensed to
industry for development into chemical detectors
and other devices. Dr. Zang has previously
founded two University startups. Vaporsens,
Inc., and Metallosensors, Inc., both based on
innovations in sensor technology in his
laboratory. Vaporsens develops nanofiber sensors
for gas-phase chemical detection for homeland
security, defense, public safety, and air
quality monitoring. Metallosensors is focused on
trace detection of heavy metal pollutants in
water. In 2022, he co-founded with colleagues
another startup, Novus Analytical Technologies,
to develop and commercialize new generation of
liquid chromatography techniques for realtime
onsite analysis of water and bio-samples.
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