Zongwei Cao (曹宗伟) Address: Institute of Plant Protection Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences West Yuan Ming Yuan Road, Beijing 100193 P.R.China Tel: Email: (86) 15110225658 (mobile) nyczw@126.com or caoxue@iccas.ac.cn EDUCATION 9/2004 ~ 6/2009: Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China 9/1987 ~ 7/1991: Bachelor of Chemistry, Shandong Normal University, Shandong, China WORK EXPERIENCE 6/2009~Present State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests Institute of Plant Protection Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences 9/1998~6/2004 Deputy Director, Research Center of Educational Science of Ningyang, Shandong, China 7/1991~9/1998 Senior teachers, Number 1 High Middle School of Ningyang, Shandong, China RESEARCH EXPERIENCE • Controlled Synthesis of Ag Nanoplates via EDTA-Mediated Chelating Reduction Reaction. • Synthesis of Ag Nanoparticles by Reduction of the End Groups of Poly vinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) • CTAB Tubular Templates-Assisted, Biomineralization Synthesis of Silver Nanotubes • Superhydrophobic Metal Surface with Ordering Longitudinal or Transverse Growth and Assembly of Silver Nanoplates on Solid Metallic Substrate by Selective Absorption Coordination Anion • Colorimetric Detection for Transgenic Cry1Ac Based on Oligonucleotide Surface-Modified of Gold Nanoparticles AWARDS & HONORS 2009: The First Prize of Director’s Scholarship (top 5%) • Nanotechnology Scholarship in ICCAS 2008: Excellent student (top 10%) in CAS • Excellent Reporter Award for Youth of ICCAS (top 10%) 2003: Excellent Educator of Ningyang, Shandong (top 0.5%) 1999 - 2002: Excellent Teaching and Research Fellowship of Ningyang, Shandong Every Year (top 5%) 1995 -1997: Excellent Headteacher in Tianan, Shandong (top 1%) A Pioneer of Chemistry and the Excellent Teacher of Ningyang, Shandong (top 1%) LEADERSHIP & CAPABILITY • Be a deputy director of research center of educational science and excellent headteacher of school for several years. Have strong sense of responsibility, good leadership, planning and organizing capability. • Be a member of ping pang ball team of ICCAS for several years. Have good team spirit, glad to cooperate with copartners, get along fairly well with colleagues. • Be patient when facing tough problem, and able to be fast, flexible, responsive in a complex and rapidly changing environment. • Be competent and creative in research work. Have published 6 research articles in prestigious international journals of chemistry and colloid and surface chemistry. • A good command of English. Have given presentation in English in Chinese Chemical Society Congress. • Excellent experimental skills with analytical, logical principles for research work. • Familiar with material characterization instruments, PC software including data processing PUBLICATION 1. Zongwei Cao, Longtian Kang, Zhongliang Wang, Shuxiao Zhang, Ying Ma, Hongbing Fu, and Jiannian Yao. Superhydrophobic Pure Silver Surface with Flowerlike Structures by a Facile Galvanic Exchange Reaction with [Ag(NH3)2]OH, Chem. Commun., 2008, 2692–2694. (if=5.504) 2. Zongwei Cao, Hongbing Fu, Longtian Kang, Liwei Huang, Tianyou Zhai, Ying Ma, and Jiannian Yao. Rapid Room-Temperature Synthesis of Silver Nanoplates with Tunable in-plane Surface Plasmon Resonance from Visible to near-IR, J. Mater Chem., 2008, 18, 2673–2678. (if=4.795) 3. Zongwei Cao, Longtian Kang, Xi Wang, Ying Ma, Hongbing Fu, and Jiannian Yao. Surfactant Induced Silver Nanotubes, Submitted to Angew. Chem. Int. Edit.,(if=11.829) 4. Zongwei Cao, Longtian Kang, Ying Ma, Hongbing Fu, and Jiannian Yao. Rapid Room-Temperature Synthesis of Size Tunable Hollow Copper Nanospheres, To be Submitted to J. Mater Chem. (if=4.795) 5. Zongwei Cao, Longtian Kang, Ying Ma, Hongbing Fu, and Jiannian Yao. Spontaneous Ordered Growth of Dendritic Silver, To be Submitted to Cryst. Growth. Des. (if=4.162) 6. Longtian Kang, Zhechen Wang, Zongwei Cao, Ying Ma, Hongbing Fu, and Jiannian Yao. Colloid Chemical Reaction Route to the Preparation of Nearly Monodispersed Perylene Nanoparticles: Size-Tunable Synthesis and Three-Dimensional Self-Organization, J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2007. 129. 7305-7312. (if=8. 58) 7. Zhongliang Wang, Ying Ma, Ruili Zhang, Aidong Peng, Qing Liao, Zongwei Cao, Hongbing Fu, Jiannian Yao. Reversible Luminescent Switching in a [Eu(SiW10MoO39)2]13--Agarose Composite Film by Photosensitive Intramolecular Energy Transfer, Adv Mater. 2009, 21, 1737–1741. (if=8.379) 8. YaobingWang, ZhikunWu, Zongwei Cao, Longtian Kang, Hongbing Fu, Jin Shi Ma, Jiannian Yao, Boon H. Looc,; Morphological evolution of nanostructures: From molecules to metallosupramolecules to nanoscale structures, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 329 (2008) 44–50. (if=1.998) 9. Tianyou Zhai, Yang Dong, Yaobing Wang, Zongwei Cao, Ying Ma, Hongbing Fu, Yongfang Li, Jiannian Yao, Size-tunable Synthesis of Tetrapod-like ZnS Nanopods by Seed-epitaxial Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition, J. Solid State Chem.; 2008, 181, 950-956. (if=2.499) 10. Longtian Kang, Hongbing Fu, Zongwei Cao, Yilong Lei, Ying Ma and Jiannian Yao. Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Zinc Phthalocyanine Nanocrystals in a Wet Chemical Reaction under Ambient Conditions, Submitted to J. Am. Chem. Soc. (if=8. 58) CONFERENCES PUBLICATION 1. Z.-W. Cao, Y. Ma, H-B. Fu and J.-N Yao. Rapid Room-Temperature Synthesis of Silver Nanoplates, The 26h Chinese Chemical Society Congress, Jul. 13-16, 2008, Tianjin, China, (Oral Presentation) 2. L.-T. Kang. Z.-C. Wang, Z.-W. Cao, Y. Ma, H-B. Fu and J.-N Yao. The Application of Colloid Chemical Reaction Method in the Preparation of Organic Nanomaterials. The 14th China-Japan Bilateral Symposium, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Nov. 15-18, 2007, P99-100.