Welch Award in Chemistry (2019);

John Gamble Kirkwood Award, Yale University (2018);

Director’s Pioneer Award, National Institutes of Health (2017&2008);

MRS Von Hippel Award (2016);

Remsen Award (2016);

Nano Research Award, Tsinghua University Press/Springer (2013);

IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award (2013);  

Willard Gibbs Medal (2013);  

Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2012);  

Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience, Materials Research Society (2010);  

Friendship Award, People’s Republic of China (2009);

Inorganic Nanoscience Award, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (2009);

Einstein Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008);

NBIC Research Excellence Award, University of Pennsylvania (2007);

Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 Award (2005);

World Technology Award in Materials (2004 & 2003);

ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2004);

Scientific American 50 Award in Nanotechnology and Molecular Electronics (2003);

Nelson W. Taylor Award, Pennsylvania State University (2003);

New York Intellectual Property Law Association Inventor of the Year Award (2003);

APS McGroddy Prize for New Materials (2003);

Harrison Howe Award, University of Rochester (2002);

MRS Medal (2002);

Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2001);

NSF Creativity Award (1996);

Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award, American Chemical Society (1995);

George Ledlie Prize, Harvard University (1994-1995);

MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (1993);

ACS Award in Pure Chemistry  (1992);  

Denkewalter Prize, Loyola University Chicago (1992);  

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1990-1995);

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1990-1992);

Wilson Prize (1990);

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988-1993);  

David and Lucile Packard Fellowship  (1988-1993);  

Distinguished New Faculty Award, Dreyfus Foundation(1987);  

NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1985-1987);

Joseph W. Richards Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (1985);

American Institute of Chemists Distinguished Senior Award (1981);

Theodore Saulnier Research Award (1981);

Pentathlon Medal for Excellence in Chemistry (1981).