Recently, Prof. CHENG Huiming was announced to be one of the three recipients of ACS Nano Leadership Award. Together with the other two recipients, Prof. David J. Norris and Prof. Teri Odom, Prof. Cheng is going to give a lecture and receive the award at ChinaNANO in August in Beijing, China.

Prof. Cheng is the Head of the Advanced Carbon Materials Division of the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL). His research activities mainly focus on the synthesis, properties and applications of carbon nanotubes, graphene, energy storage materials, photocatalytic semiconducting materials, and high-performance bulk carbon materials. Prof. Cheng has received several international and national awards, including National Natural Science Award (2nd class) in 2006, the Charles E. Pettinos Award (American Carbon Society, USA) in 2010, and the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in 2010. He is the Editor of Carbon since 2000 and the Editor-in-Chief of New Carbon Materials since 1998. Prof. Cheng was the co-chairman of the World Conference on Carbon in 2002 (Beijing) and 2011 (Shanghai).

Winner of ACS Nano Leadership Award (Right) Prof. Cheng Huiming