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  • 2017 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ming Lee Tang is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research focuses on topics such as Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, as well as Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials, among others.

Key areas of study in Tang's work include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

The subfields contributing to their research portfolio comprise:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Research topics covered extensively by Tang include:

  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
  • Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Some recent publications authored or coauthored by Tang are:

  • "Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanoparticles turn molecular triplet excitons bright," 2020, Nature
  • "Anthracene Diphosphate Ligands for CdSe Quantum Dots; Molecular Design for Efficient Upconversion," 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • "Mechanistic Understanding and Rational Design of Quantum Dot/Mediator Interfaces for Efficient Photon Upconversion," 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "One Stone, Two Birds: pH- and Temperature-Sensitive Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots for Multiple Anticounterfeiting and Multiple Cell Imaging," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Evolution from Tunneling to Hopping Mediated Triplet Energy Transfer from Quantum Dots to Molecules," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Tang frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Nanoscale
  • Faraday Discussions
  • Research Square
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Collaborations are common in Tang's body of work, with several frequent coauthors including:

  • Tsumugi Miyashita
  • Zhiyuan Huang
  • Tianquan Lian
  • Kefu Wang
  • Lorenzo Mangolini

Ming Lee Tang has been recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Nanoantenna-enhanced gas sensing in a single tailored nanofocus

    Na Liu;Ming L. Tang;Mario Hentschel;Harald Giessen

  • Halogenated Materials as Organic Semiconductors

    Ming L. Tang;Ming L. Tang;Zhenan Bao

  • Molecular Cobalt Pentapyridine Catalysts for Generating Hydrogen from Water

    Yujie Sun;Yujie Sun;Julian P. Bigi;Julian P. Bigi;Nicholas A. Piro;Nicholas A. Piro;Ming Lee Tang;Ming Lee Tang

  • Chlorination: a general route toward electron transport in organic semiconductors.

    Ming Lee Tang;Joon Hak Oh;Anna Devi Reichardt;Zhenan Bao

  • Hybrid molecule-nanocrystal photon upconversion across the visible and near-infrared

    Christopher John Bardeen;Ming Lee Tang;Kerry Miller Hanson;Zhiyuan Huang

  • Ambipolar, high performance, acene-based organic thin film transistors.

    Ming L. Tang;Anna D. Reichardt;Nobuyuki Miyaki;Randall M. Stoltenberg

  • High-Performance Organic Semiconductors: Asymmetric Linear Acenes Containing Sulphur

    Ming L Tang;Toshihiro Okamoto;Zhenan Bao

  • Correlating carrier type with frontier molecular orbital energy levels in organic thin film transistors of functionalized acene derivatives.

    Ming L Tang;Anna D Reichardt;Peng Wei;Zhenan Bao

  • Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanoparticles turn molecular triplet excitons bright

    Sanyang Han;Renren Deng;Renren Deng;Qifei Gu;Limeng Ni

  • Structural and Electronic Study of an Amorphous MoS3 Hydrogen‐Generation Catalyst on a Quantum‐Controlled Photosensitizer

    Ming L. Tang;David C. Grauer;Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Vittal K. Yachandra

  • Thin Film Structure of Triisopropylsilylethynyl‐Functionalized Pentacene and Tetraceno[2,3‐b]thiophene from Grazing Incidence X‐Ray Diffraction

    Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Ming Lee Tang;Zhenan Bao

  • Efficient Infrared-to-Visible Upconversion with Subsolar Irradiance

    Melika Mahboub;Zhiyuan Huang;Ming Lee Tang

  • Designing Transmitter Ligands That Mediate Energy Transfer between Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Molecules

    Zhiyuan Huang;Ming Lee Tang

  • Surface States Mediate Triplet Energy Transfer in Nanocrystal–Acene Composite Systems

    Jon A. Bender;Emily K. Raulerson;Xin Li;Tamar Goldzak

  • Synthesis of Acenaphthyl and Phenanthrene Based Fused-Aromatic Thienopyrazine Co-Polymers for Photovoltaic and Thin Film Transistor Applications

    Rajib Mondal;Nobuyuki Miyaki;Hector A. Becerril;Joseph E. Norton

  • Observations of shape-dependent hydrogen uptake trajectories from single nanocrystals.

    Ming L. Tang;Na Liu;Jennifer A. Dionne;A. Paul Alivisatos

  • CdS/ZnS core–shell nanocrystal photosensitizers for visible to UV upconversion

    Victor Gray;Pan Xia;Zhiyuan Huang;Emily Moses

  • Achieving spin-triplet exciton transfer between silicon and molecular acceptors for photon upconversion.

    Pan Xia;Emily K. Raulerson;Devin Coleman;Carter S. Gerke

  • Distance-Dependent Triplet Energy Transfer between CdSe Nanocrystals and Surface Bound Anthracene

    Xin Li;Zhiyuan Huang;Ramsha Zavala;Ming Lee Tang

  • PbS/CdS Core-Shell Quantum Dots Suppress Charge Transfer and Enhance Triplet Transfer.

    Zhiyuan Huang;Zihao Xu;Melika Mahboub;Xin Li

  • Pentaceno[2,3-b]thiophene, a hexacene analogue for organic thin film transistors.

    Ming L. Tang;Stefan C.B. Mannsfeld;Ya Sen Sun;Héctor A. Becerril

  • Nanocrystal Size and Quantum Yield in the Upconversion of Green to Violet Light with CdSe and Anthracene Derivatives

    Zhiyuan Huang;Xin Li;Benjamin D. Yip;Justin M. Rubalcava

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao Stanford University
Tianquan Lian
Tianquan Lian Emory University
Christopher J. Bardeen
Christopher J. Bardeen University of California, Riverside
A. Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago
Na Liu
Na Liu University of Stuttgart
Jeffrey R. Long
Jeffrey R. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael F. Toney
Michael F. Toney University of Colorado Boulder
Michael D. McGehee
Michael D. McGehee University of Colorado Boulder
David Beljonne
David Beljonne University of Mons

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