Guozhong Cao

Guozhong Cao is the Boeing-Steiner Professor of materials science & engineering, professor of chemical engineering, and adjunct professor of mechanical engineering. His current research is focused mainly on processing, characterization, and applications of dielectrics, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, scintillation oxides, intercalation compounds, organic-inorganic hybrids, and nanostructured materials and coatings. Technologies from his lab have led to UW spin-out company EnerG2, which has received $15 million in venture funding and has just completed a factory to produce a new carbon material to increase the storage capacity of electric car batteries. Cao is working on several new technologies with great commercial potential, and he has plans for a new start-up.