Dr. Bor Jang received his MS and PhD degrees in Materials Science from MIT. Dr. Jang is a former Dean of the College of Engineering at Wright State University and a former Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor with the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Jang is a co-inventor of 300+ patents (issued or pending), out of which 180 patents are related to graphene and 90 related to supercapacitors and batteries. Dr. Jang and Dr. Zhamu co-founded Angstron Materials, Inc. in 2007. Angstron Materials is a global leader in the development and mass production of graphene materials.
Dr. Jang successfully produced isolated single-layer and multi-layer pristine graphene sheets as early as 2002, as evidenced by a patent application submitted in October 2002 and issued in 2006 (US Patent Appl. No. 10/274,473 (10/21/2002)). Dr. Jang and his business partner, Dr. Aruna Zhamu, are recognized by Cambridge IP (“Patenting Flatland: Graphene,” April 2012) as the world’s No. 1 and No. 3 graphene inventor, respectively. This team is the first to study the application of graphene materials in energy storage and conversion, having the world’s first patents on graphene applications in hydrogen storage (2004), fuel cells (2005), supercapacitors (2006), thermal management (2007), and batteries (2007).