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USTAR
Professor
Nano
Institute of Utah
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Director,
Utah Center for Interfacial Sciences
Founder, Vaporsens
Inc
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, and Nano Institute of
Utah. 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.
Since joining the faculty of the University of
Utah in 2008, his lab has developed 36 IPs, and
about 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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