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• Professor Ning Wang obtained his BSc (1985) and PhD (1990) degrees in materials physics from the University of Science and Technology, Beijing.
• In 1989, he received an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and worked in the Institute for Metal Physics, Goettingen University and the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.
• In 1993, he joined the Physics Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. During 1997-2000 he worked in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, the City University of Hong Kong.
• He was Director of Materials Characterization and Preparation Facility (2013-2019).
• He initiated and established the Nano Science and Engineering Platform; the Super-resolution Electron Microscopy Platform; and the HKUST-Raith Joint Nanotechnology Laboratory at HKUST.
• Professor Wang has authored/co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed research papers in reputed international journals (including Nature, Science, Phys. Rev. Lett., etc.), 40 conference papers, 3 book chapters and 6 US patents. The total citation times of his papers: >26,000 with h-index = 82.
• He received Chien-Shiung Wu Physics Award (吴健雄物理獎), State Natural Science Award and Achievement in Asia Award.

Research 

• Since 1986, Dr. Wang has devoted himself to fundamental research in materials physics, particularly 1D and 2D nanomaterials fabrication and property characterization in the past decade. His current research interests cover the areas of 2D materials growth, device fabrication, electronic transport and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy techniques.
• Listed below are some of his exciting discoveries:

2D Moire super-lattices:

• Meizhen Huang, Zefei Wu, Xu Zhang, Xuemeng Feng, Zishu Zhou, Shi Wang, Yong Chen, Chun Cheng, Kai Sun, Zi Yang Meng, and Ning Wang; "Intrinsic nonlinear Hall effect and gate-switchable Berry curvature sliding in twisted bilayer graphene", Phys. Rev. Lett. (2023) in press; Editor's suggestion paper).
• Meizhen Huang, Zefei Wu, Jinxin Hu, Xiangbin Cai, En Li, Liheng An, Xuemeng Feng, Ziqing Ye, Nian Lin, Kam Tuen Law, Ning Wang, "Giant Nonlinear Hall Transport in Twisted WSe2"; National Science Review, 10 (2023) nwac232. 
• Liheng An, Zishu Zhou, Xuemeng Feng, Meizhen Huang, Xiangbin Cai, Yong Chen, Pei Zhao, Xi Dai, Jingdi Zhang, Wang Yao, Junwei Liu and Ning Wang, "Unconventional ferroelectrivity in twisted WSe2"; National Science Open, 2: 20220033, (2023).

• Xiangbin Cai, Zefei Wu, Xu Han, Yong Chen, Shuigang Xu, Jiangxiazi Lin, Tianyi Han, Pingge He, Xuemeng Feng, Liheng An, Run Shi, Jingwei Wang, Zhehan Ying, Yuan Cai, Mengyuan Hua, Junwei Liu, Ding Pan, Chun Cheng & Ning Wang, “Bridging the gap between atomically thin semiconductors and metal leads”, Nature Comm. 13, (2022) 1777.

• En Li, Jin-Xin Hu, Xuemeng Feng, Zishu Zhou, Liheng An, Kam Tuen Law, Ning Wang & Nian Lin, “Lattice reconstruction induced multiple ultra-flat bands in twisted bilayer WSe2”, Nature Comm. 12 (2021)5601.

• L.H. An, X.B. Cai, Ding Pei, M.Z. Huang, Z.F. Wu, ....N. Wang, "Superconductivity Signatures in Twisted WSe2"; Nanoscale Horizons 5 (2020) 1309.

Novel transport properties in 2D materials:

• Z. F. Wu, B. T. Zhou,… N. Wang, “Intrinsic valley Hall transport in atomically thin MoS2”, Nature Comm. 10 (2019)611.
• Jiangxiazi Lin, Tianyi Han, Benjamin A. Piot, Zefei Wu, Shuigang Xu, Gen Long, Liheng An, Patrick Cheung, Peng-Peng Zheng, Paulina Plochocka, Xi Dai, Duncan K. Maude, Fan Zhang, and Ning Wang, “Determining Interaction Enhanced Valley Susceptibility in Spin-Valley-Locked MoS2”, Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 1736−1742.
• “Odd-Integer Quantum Hall States and Giant Spin Susceptibility in p-Type Few-Layer WSe2”, S.G. Xu, J.Y. Shen, G. Long, Z.F. Wu, Z.Q. Bao, C.C. Liu,,…N. Wang, Phys. Rev. Lett., 118 (2017) 067702.
• "Even-Odd layer-dependent magnetotransport of high-mobility Q-valley electrons in transition metal disulfids", Z.F. Wu, S.G. Xu, H.H. Lu, A. Khamoshi, G.B. Liu, T.Y. Han, Y.Y. Wu, J.X.Z. Lin, G. Long, Y.H. He, Y. Cai, Y.G. Yao, F. Zhang, N.Wang, Nature Comm. 7 (2016) 12955.
• "High-quality sandwiched black phosphorus heterostructure and its quantum oscillations", Xiaolong Chen, Yingying Wu, Zefei Wu,Yu Han, Shuigang Xu, Lin Wang, Weiguang Ye, Tianyi Han, Yuheng He,Yuan Cai & Ning Wang, Nature Comm. 6 (2015) 7315.
• "Probing the electron states and metal-insulator transition mechanisms in ​molybdenum disulphide vertical heterostructures", Xiaolong Chen, Zefei Wu, Shuigang Xu, Lin Wang, Rui Huang, Yu Han, Weiguang Ye, Wei Xiong, Tianyi Han, Gen Long, Yang Wang, Yuheng He, Yuan Cai, Ping Sheng & Ning Wang, Nature Comm. 6 (2015) 6088.
• X.L. Chen, Y.Y. Wu, Z.F. Wu, S.G. Xu, L. Wang, Y. Han, W.G. Ye, T.Y. Han, Y.H. He, Y. Cai, N. Wang, “High quality sandwiched black phosphorus heterostructure and its quantum oscillations”, Nature Comm. 6 (2015) 7315.

Ultrathin Carbon Nanotubes and their Superconductivity:

• “Single-walled 4-Å carbon nanotube arrays”, N. Wang, Z.K. Tang, G.D. Li, J.S. Chen, Nature, 408 (2000) 50. Click here to see more...
• “Superconductivity in 4 Angstrom Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Z. K. Tang, L. Zhang, N. Wang, X. X. Zhang, G. H. Wen, G. D. Li, J. N. Wang, C. T. Chan, P. Sheng, Science 292 (2001)2462. Click here to see more...

Oxide-assisted Growth Technology for 1D Nanostructures:

• "Nucleation and growth of Si nanowires from silicon oxide”, N. Wang, Y.H. Tang, Y.F. Zhang, C.S. Lee and S.T. Lee, Phys. Rev. B58 (1998) R16024.
• "Formation of ZnO nanostructures by a simple way of thermal evaporation”, B.D Yao, Y. F. Chan, N. Wang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81(2002) 757. Click here to see more...

Quasicrystals with an Eight-fold Symmetry:

• “Two-dimensional quasicrystal with eightfold rotational symmetry”, N. Wang, H. Chen & K. H. Kuo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987) 1010. Click here to see more...
• "Direct observation of domains and discommensurations in Mn-Al-Si octagonal quasicrystal by transmission electron microscopy". Phys. Rev. Lett. 67 (1991)1302.