Science Watch recently published a ranked list of the world's top hundred materials scientists, and Prof. Shuan-Yi (Michael) of the Dept. of Chemistry, NTHU was ranked at the third place in this prestigious ranking, making him the best performing scientist in this field in Asia.

Prof. Huang published a paper on zinc oxide nanolasers in 2010 which has been cited over 4,000 times since it was printed. Furthermore, he has published, since 2004 more than 40 research papers with important findings and most of these were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a "high impact" journal world-wide.

Prof. Huang's research projects were assisted by a team of more than ten graduate students. Together, they have worked on the morphosynthesis of gold and palladium nanoparticles, morphosynthesis of cuprous oxide nanocrystals, the growth of ultra-long metal oxide nanowire, the structure of nanopillars in metal nitride, and the synthesis of hollow structure. The morphosynthesis technology of nanoparticle Prof. Huang and his research have developed is considered by scientists in this field as a major achievement and will have great impact on the future development of the optoelectronic industry.

The significance of Science Watch's ranking is not merely on the number of paper a scientist has published, more importantly; it indicated the impact level of research findings of each scientist ranked. Prof. Huang is 40 year young. He returned to Taiwan from the U.S. in 2002 and joined NTHU upon his return and was promoted to the ranked of full professor at the age of 39. His research accomplishments have been widely recognized both domestically and internationally. He is the proud winner of many prestigious academic awards, including the Wu Ta-You Memorial Award, Academia Sinica's Outstanding Research Award for Junior Researcher and the Chemical Society of Japan's CSJ Award for Young Chemists.