Dr. Duan is an Associate Professor at UCLA. He received a B.S degree in chemistry from University of Science and Technology and China, Hefei, China, in 1997; M.A. degree in chemistry and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1999 and 2002, respectively.

From 2002 to 2008, he was a Founding Scientist, Principal Scientist and Manager of Advanced Technology at Nanosys Inc., a nanotechnology startup founded based partly on his doctoral research. In 2008, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Duan’s research in inorganic nanostructures contributed significantly to recent advancements in nanoscience and nanotechnology. His doctoral research in semiconductor nanowires pioneered the recent blossom in nanowire based research and technology. While at Nanosys, Dr. Duan was responsible for identifying new technological opportunities based on inorganic nanostructures and advancing the newest ideas into compelling technological demonstrations. He is the leading inventor of a number of the most important nanotechnology inventions. His current research interests include heteointegration of nanoscale materials, development of novel nanoscale device concepts and exploration of their potential in future electronics, energy science and biomedical science. Dr. Duan has published about 100 technical papers in leading scientific journals, and holds more than 50 patents or patent applications.

The Duan Lab's research interests include nanoscale materials, devices and their applications in future electronics, energy technologies and biomedical science. The research focuses on rational design and synthesis of highly complex nanostructures with precisely controlled chemical composition, structural morphology and physical dimension; fundamental investigation of new chemical, optical, electronic and magnetic properties; and exploration of new technological opportunities arising in these nanoscale materials. A strong emphasis is placed on the hetero-integration of multi-composition, multi-structure and multi-function at the nanoscale, and by doing so, creating a new generation of integrated nanosystems with unprecedented performance or unique functions to break the boundaries of traditional technologies.

Chemical vapour deposition growth of large single crystals of monolayer and bilayer graphene H. Zhou, W. J. Yu, L. Liu, R. Cheng, Y. Chen, X. Huang, Y. Liu, Y. Wang, Y. Huang and X. Duan, Nature Commun. In press, (2013) doi:10.1038/ncomms3096 Nanoscale devices: Untangling nanowire assembly N. O. Weiss and X. Duan. Nature Nanotech. 8, 312-313 (2013) doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.83 Transferred wrinkled Al2O3 for highly stretchable and transparent graphene/carbon nanotube transistors S. H. Chae, W. J. Yu, J. J. Bae, D. L. Duong, D. Perello, H. Y. Jeong, Q. H. Ta, T. H. Ly, Q. A. Vu, M. H. Yun, X. Duan, and Y. H. Lee, Nature Mater. 12, 403-409 (2013) doi:10.1038/nmat3572 Vertically stacked multi-heterostructures of layered materials for logic transistors and complementary inverters W. J. Yu, Z. Li, H. Zhou, Y. Chen, Y. Wang, Y. Huang and X. Duan, Nature Mater. 12, 246–252 (2013) doi:10.1038/nmat3518 A low-temperature method to produce highly reduced graphene oxide H. Feng, R. Cheng, X. Zhao, X. Duan and J. Li, Nature Commun. 4, 1539 (2013) doi:10.1038/ncomms2555