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This year's Nobel Prize will be announced between October 3-10 of next month, and it is only a week from now. Before the announcement of the Nobel Prize every year, the prediction of the Nobel Prize is also an important work for major institutions and the media. Just a few days ago, Clarivate Corporation, a paper and journal indexing platform, announced the winners of the 2022 "Citation Laureate", which has become the most accurate indicator of Nobel laureates in the past decade.
This year's "Citation Laureate Award" was awarded to 20 famous scholars around the world, of which 14 are from the United States, 3 are from Japan, 2 are from the United Kingdom, and 1 is from Germany. It is worth mentioning that 9 of the 10 Nobel laureates before this have won the "Citation Laureate Award", and the only winner who has not won the "Citation Laureate Award" is the winner of the Literature Award, and the "Citation Laureate Award" has no literary prize.
Among the 14 American scholars who won the award this year, one is an alumnus of Nanjing University, a current professor at Stanford University in the United States, and a famous Chinese scholar - Professor Bao Zhenan, who is also considered to be the most promising scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year.
Bao Zhenan
Bao Zhenan is an undergraduate alumnus of Nanjing University in 1987 and a native of Nanjing. After graduating from Nanjing University, he immigrated to the United States to pursue a master's degree at the University of Chicago, and the instructor was Yu Luping, a Chinese-American polymer chemist, and Professor Bao Zhenan also worked at the University of Chicago until his doctorate.
After graduating with a Ph.D. in 1995, Bao Zhenan directly entered Bell Labs as a researcher, and was awarded the title of Bell Labs Outstanding Researcher in 2001. In 2002, Bao was selected as one of twelve outstanding young scientists by the Committee of Women Chemists of the American Chemical Society, and in 2004, he entered the Department of Chemistry of Stanford University, after which Bao's scientific career began to reach its peak.
In 2011, Bao Zhenan won the World Chinese Influence Award, and in the same year, he was selected into the list of the world's top 100 materials scientists, ranking 62nd. In 2016, he was elected to the American Academy of Engineering; In 2017, she was promoted to dean of the School of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, and was the first Chinese woman to become dean at Stanford; In 2021, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Predict the reason for the award
Professor Bao's research scope includes chemistry, materials science, energy, nanoelectronics and molecular electronics, organic and polymer semiconductor materials, sensing materials, organic semiconductor transistors, organic solar cells, electronic paper, artificial electronic skin;
Clarivate Corporation, the index platform for this paper and journal, predicts that Professor Bao Zhenan's award-winning scientific research results are due to the development of new biomimetic applications of organic and polymer electronic materials, including flexible "electronic skin".
Electronic skin is a highly sensitive flexible plastic film material that can simulate human skin invented by Professor Bao Zhenan's research team. The material consists of highly sensitive electronic sensors that, when connected by countless sensors, form a thin film similar to human skin. Its future research direction is to connect artificial skin with the human nervous system, creating an artificial skin with the same function as human skin, which can be connected with nerve cells in the arm to restore the feeling of the arm. If the research and development is successful, it will be a blessing for people with disabilities.
In addition to Bao Zhenan, the list of prediction winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in this year;
The second-winning team was Bonnie L. Bassler, Professor of Molecular Biology and Head of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and E. Bassler, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Peter Greenberg。 The team's prediction was awarded for the study of gene expression regulation of bacteria through quorum induction, a system coordinated by chemical communication;
The third is Daniel G. Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, predicting the reason for the award: fundamental experimental and theoretical contributions to proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) and its applications in energy science and biology.
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced during the National Day a week later, and it remains to be seen whether Nanjing University alumnus Chinese scholar Bao Zhenan will be able to win the prize as desired.