2005 Department of Electronic Engineering, Southeast University, China Ph. D.
2001 Department of Electronic Engineering, Southeast University, China B. Sc.

May 2011-present Professor, Advanced Photonics Center, Southeast University, China
Sep. 2006-May 2011 Associate Professor, Advanced Photonics Center, Southeast University, China
Sep. 2005-Sep. 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, The State University of New York at Buffalo

Our program involves design, synthesis, and characterizations of nanomaterials for various applications including cell imaging, biological sensing, drug delivery etc.
Our interest also covers a number of optical spectroscopic techniques in biological applications, such as surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), fluorescence-SERS combined technique as well as nonlinear optical spectroscopy.

1.Wang, Z., Zong, S., Li, W., Wang, C., Xu, S., Chen, H., Cui, Y. SERS-fluorescence joint spectral encoding using organic-metal-QD hybrid nanoparticles with a huge encoding capacity for high-throughput biodetection: Putting theory into practice (2012) Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134 (6), pp. 2993-3000.
2.Zong, S., Wang, Z., Chen, H., Cui, Y. Ultrasensitive Telomerase Activity Detection by Telomeric Elongation Controlled Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (2013) Small, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201301372.
3.Yang J., Wang, Z*., Zong, S., Chen H., Zhang R., Cui, Y, Dual-mode tracking of tumor-cell-specific drug delivery using fluorescence and label-free SERS techniques (2014) Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 51, pp 82–89.
4.Zong, S., Wang, Z*., Chen, H., Yang, J., Cui, Y. Surface enhanced Raman scattering traceable and glutathione responsive nanocarrier for the intracellular drug delivery (2013) Analytical Chemistry, 85 (4),
5. Wu X., Wang, Z*., Zhu D, Zong, S., Yang L., Zhong Y., Cui, Y. pH and Thermo Dual-Stimuli-Responsive Drug Carrier Based on Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Encapsulated in a Copolymer–Lipid Bilayer (2013) ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 5 (21), pp 10895–10903.
6. Zong, S. Wang, Z*., Chen H., Hu G., Liu Min., Chen P., Cui, Y., Colorimetry and SERS Dual-mode Detection of Telomerase Activity: Combining Rapid Screening with High Sensitivity (2013) Nanoscale, DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04942F.
7. Wang, Z., Wu, H., Wang, C., Xu, S., Cui, Y. Gold aggregates- and quantum dots-embedded nanospheres: Switchable dual-mode image probes for living cells (2011) Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21 (12), pp. 4307-4313.
8. Wang, Z., Zong, S., Yang, J., Li, J., Cui, Y. Dual-mode probe based on mesoporous silica coated gold nanorods for targeting cancer cells (2011) Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 26 (6), pp. 2883-2889.
9. Wang, Z., Zong, S., Yang, J., Song, C., Li, J., Cui, Y. One-step functionalized gold nanorods as intracellular probe with improved SERS performance and reduced cytotoxicity (2010) Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 26 (1), pp. 241-247.
10. Wang, Z., Zong, S., Chen, H., Wu, H., Cui, Y. Silica coated gold nanoaggregates prepared by reverse microemulsion method: Dual mode probes for multiplex immunoassay using SERS and fluorescence (2011) Talanta, 86 (1), pp. 170-177.