Dr. Yaowu Hao is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph. D. degree from MIT in 2003 and his MS degree from University of Florida in 1998, both in Materials Science and Engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University before he joined UT Arlington in fall 2005. He earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Metal Physics and Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing.
Research Description
Current research interest is in general field of nanomedicine. The research topics include plasmonic metal and semiconductor nanoparticles for biomedical imaging and drug delivery applications and radioactive copper-based inorganic nanoparticles for biomedical imaging and therapeutic applications.