The Eni Award is an authoritative award in the world's energy field. It is also the highest award in the field with the Turing Award in the computer industry, the Fields Award in the mathematics industry, and the Wolf Award. On July 23, 2018, the Eni Prize Organizing Committee decided to award the 11th Eni Energy Frontiers Prize to Academician Wang Zhonglin in recognition of his first invention of nano-generators, the creation of self-driving systems and blue It has made great contributions to the two original fields of non-ferrous energy and applied nano-generators to the new era of energy fields such as the Internet of Things, sensor networks, environmental protection, and artificial intelligence. Academician Wang Zhonglin also became the first Chinese scientist to receive the Eni Award so far.
Wang Zhonglin, the leader of the national key research and development plan "Nanotechnology", a key special project led by the project leader in 2016, is the first batch of projects "Research on Nano Energy Devices and Self-Driven Systems", focusing on the physical foundation and structure-effect relationship of nano-generators, and developing friction and The new theory and method of nano-electric power generation based on piezoelectric effect will further promote the application of nano-electric generators in the fields of environmental protection, intelligent medical treatment and blue energy. Academician Wang Zhonglin has made original contributions in the fields of electron microscopy, in-situ physical property measurement, and one-dimensional oxide nanomaterials in energy, optoelectronics, sensing, and biotechnology applications. He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Taiwan Academia Sinica, founding director and chief scientist of the Beijing Institute of Nano Energy and Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, dean of the Institute of Nanoscience and Technology of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, director professor of Lifelong School of Georgia Institute of Technology, and chair professor of Hightower.