Hongjie Dai is a Chinese-American Chemist and Applied Physicist, the J.G. Jackson & C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University

Stanford University

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He is a leading figure in the study of carbon nanotubes.

Dai received a B.S. in Physics from Qinghua University, Beijing, in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1994 under the direction of Prof. Charles Lieber

Charles Lieber

Charles M. Lieber is an American chemist and renowned pioneer in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology at Harvard University. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, as the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry, and the School of Engineering and Applied...

. After postdoctoral research at Harvard, he joined the Stanford faculty as an assistant professor in 1997.

Among his awards are the American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society

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's ACS Award in pure chemistry

ACS Award in pure chemistry

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, 2002, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, 2004, and the American Physical Society

American Physical Society

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's James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

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, 2006. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 in 2009, and to the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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in 2011.