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Nanoengineer Liangfang Zhang wins American Chemical Society's Unilever Award for 2012

Nanoengineer Liangfang Zhang wins American Chemical Society's Unilever Award for 2012

March 28, 2012

The American Chemical Society has awarded Liangfang Zhang, professor in the Department of NanoEngineering, the ACS Colloid and Surface Division Unilever Award for 2012.  This award was established in 2004 to recognize work in the field of colloid or surfactant science by North American researchers in the early stages of their careers. The award recognizes Zhang’s research on biomimetic nanomaterials that integrate synthetic colloids with natural cellular membrane materials such as his red-blood cell membrane cloaked nanoparticles for targeted cancer treatment. Full Story