WUHAN, China (April 26, 2018) - Wuhan Optoelectronics Forum No. 136 was successfully held in Auditorium A101 at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) in the morning of April 26. Prof. Jianguo Guan from Wuhan University of Technology delivered an exciting talk entitled Self-driven micro-/nano motors. Prof. Wei Chen, from WNLO chaired the forum. Dr. Jun Zhou, Deputy Director of WNLO, awarded Prof. Jianguo Guan the forum medal.
Micro-/nanomotors (MNMs) can perform autonomous motions, and has potential revolutionary applications in biomedicines, micro-/nanofabrication and environmental detection and remediation. After briefly introducing the basic concept, propulsion mechanisms, construction strategy and research status of micro-/nanomotors, this presentation will focus on biocompatible Mg-based micromotors firstly developed in our research group and free swimming functionalized sperm micromotors with intrinsic chemotactic motile behavior in biological and environmental media. Then, I will demonstrate light-controlled MNMs of various structures including Janus, single-layered tubular and isotropic structures. These intriguing properties offer them ample opportunities to act as motile platform to manipulate and assemble micro/nanocargoes in highly sophisticated ways. In the end, I will also present the prospects about MNMs operating in living bodies, which should have powerful thrusts, specific sensing, external tracking and self-targeting in physiological environment like blood vessels.
Dr. Jianguo Guan, Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of MOE, Chief Professor of Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), China. He is also Dean Education for the International School of Materials Science and Engineering, WUT. He received BS degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1990, and gained his PhD degree (Electronic Materials and Devices) in 1995 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Afterwards, he joined State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing (SKLARMSP), WUT and became a full professor in 1998. Since then he has been leading the Division of Nanocomposite technology and Functional Composite Materials in SKLARMSP. From 2000 to 2001, he worked as a Research Fellow in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2008 to 2009, he worked as a senior visiting scholar in Washington University in St Louis, USA. He has taken charge of over 30 projects including 4 projects of 863 hi-tech programs and 6 JPPT projects for national key equipment. He has co-authored more than 210 papers in SCI-indxed peer-reviewed journals including Chem Soc Rev, Adv Mater, Angew Chem Int Ed, Nano Lett, Adv Funct Mater, ACS Nano etc., as well as 34 authorized patents. He has been awarded several recognized Science and Technology Awards from Chinese government because of his academic achievements.
His current research interests include conducting composite materials, electromagnetic metamaterials, micro-/nanomotors, and photonic crystals.
