wang later became a centennial professor at vanderbilt university in nashville, tennessee. he has written about 200 journal articles and holds 28 u.s. patents on acoustics, drops and bubble dynamics, collision and coalescence of drops, charged drop dynamics, containerless science, and encapsulation of living cells. his experiments were carried out in 1985 aboard united states spacelab 3, and in i992 aboard united states microgravity laboratory 1 (usml-1), and in 1995 aboard usml-2.