Chuan Wang

Professor Chuan Wang joined Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 and is currently an associate professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering. Before joining WashU, he was an assistant professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Michigan State University. Professor Wang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2011 working with Professor Chongwu Zhou and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Professor Ali Javey in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley from 2011 to 2013. His work during PhD and postdoc pioneered in the field of using solution-processed semiconducting carbon nanotube networks and CVD-grown horizontally aligned carbon nanotubes for high-performance thin-film transistors, integrated circuits, display electronics, and RF electronics.

Professor Wang’s current focus areas of research include: 1) flexible and stretchable electronics for displaying, sensing, and energy harvesting applications; 2) low-cost additive manufacturing of flexible and stretchable electronics using inkjet printing; and 3) high-performance nanoelectronics and optoelectronics using 2-dimensional semiconductors. He has published over 70 journal papers, many of which in high impact journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, etc. His work has also been widely reported by Nature, Science, Nature Materials, Technology Review, TIME, Wired, Fast Company, ABC News, CNET, C&EN, IEEE Spectrum, EE Times, and many other media.