At the invitation of Prof. Zhongping Zhang, the vice director of Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Jinzhong Zhang, Senior Editor for JPC, from University of California Santa Cruz visited IIM on September 17th and made a report titled “Shed Light on Plasmonic Metal Nanomaterials for Sensing and Cancer Therapy”.

　　Compared with bulk matter, Nanomaterials possess novel physical and chemical properties due to the quantum confinement effect and exceedingly large surface-to-volume ratio. On the meeting, Prof. Jinzhong Zhang mainly introduced the design and the characterization of metal nanostructures for chemical sensing based on surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and biomedical therapy. Particularly, he described his recent progress in the reproducible synthesis of hollow gold nanosphere (HGN) system, which has been a challenging issue for years. Researchers and graduates from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences attended the meeting and communicated with Professor Zhang on relevant issues.

　　Professor Jinzhong Zhang received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1983 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from University of Washington, Seattle in 1989. He was a postdoctoral researh fellow at University of California Berkeley from 1989 to 1992.  In 1992, he joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, where he is currently full professor of chemistry and biochemistry.  Zhang’s recent research interests focus on design, synthesis, characterization, and exploration of applications of advanced materials including semiconductor, metal, and metal oxide nanomaterials, particularly in the areas of solar energy conversion and biomedical detection/therapy. He has authored over 240 publications and 3 books.  Zhang has been serving as a senior editor for JPC published by ACS since 2004, and he is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, and ACS