biography

Biography: Ganhua Lu received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tongji University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2004, he started his graduate study in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). After receiving his Ph.D. in 2007, he worked as a Research Associate in Prof. Junhong Chen’s group at UWM from 2008 to 2012. He was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage from 2013 to 2016. His research interests include nanoparticle synthesis and assembly; carbon nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene; hybrid nanomaterials; nanofabrication; environmental and energy applications of nanomaterials. He has invented a material-independent dry technique to efficiently deposit nanocrystals onto CNTs/graphene, which has been featured on the UWM front page and reported by several media, including Nanowerk, Science Daily, PhysOrg, and Photonics Online. The resulting nanocrystal-CNT/graphene structures have the potential to enable new opportunities for nanoscience and nanotechnology applications, such as in gas sensors, biosensors, and solar cells. Dr. Lu has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, including first-authored papers in Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, and Applied Physics Letters. His papers have been cited over 2900 times according to ISI Web of Science. He is also a co-inventor of four U.S. patents.