"Chenyu Wang has demonstrated his outstanding performance in materials chemistry synthesis. His original contribution to the field of nanomaterial preparation is having successfully prepared platinum-cobalt and platinum-iron concave nanocubes with high-indexed crystallographic facets. This is a worldwide breakthrough in shape-control synthesis using a solution phase synthesis strategy. He has also identified a new research direction, hydrogenation catalysis, where his novel nanocrystals can be applied, demonstrating an improved turnover frequency and superior catalytic stability. He has nine publications to his credit in journals including Nanotechnology, Nanoscale and the Journal of the American Chemical Society."

---- cited from INSIDE Binghamton University, 20 March 2014   LINK