Born: 1970, China
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: 鲍哲南, Bào Zhé-nán
The following was written by Nina Baker and is excerpted from the book From Alchemy to Transport Phenomena: A Global History of Women in Chemical Engineering.
Professor Zhenan Bao (b. 1970), initially studied at Nanjing University, China but then moved to Chicago, gaining her MSc (1993) and PhD (1995) for her work on “Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions towards the synthesis of conductive and liquid crystalline polymers”. As K. K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, she works mainly on organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors, for applications including flexible electronics.