He has been working as a postdoctoral scholar in University of Kentucky with research focus on the fabrication, electro-kinetics and applications of carbon nanotube membranes from 2007-2012. He received his PhD degree in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry from Texas Christian University in 2007, following his Advisor, J. L. Coffer. His PhD research was on erbium-doped semiconducting nanomaterials such as silicon and germanium nanowires. He also earned a Masters’ degree in Organometallic Chemistry from Anhui University (Hefei, China) in 2000. He has contributed over 20 publications on peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature Nano., PNAS, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, J. Pharm. Sci. etc.